Like many audio technicians, I began with trips to the local tip to collect dead radiograms and TVs when about 10 years old. I discovered that amazing things such as a simple radio or electronic organ could be built using this 'junk'. At 10 years of age the simple logic followed that the more "bits" I had, the more complex things I could build. So began the collecting of electronic bits scavanged from dead TVs, radios etc etc....sadly and sometimes to my partners consternation this continues to this day!

Eventually my parents moved house and I began to hang around with aspiring musicans, and whilst I really wanted to play guitar in their various garage bands, they really wanted me to fix their amps, guitars and leads. My first repairs predated having any tools besides a few screwdrivers and rusty pliers. The soldering iron was on constant loan from a neighbour, it was a 200watt type, useful for soldering gutters but fitted my bigger is better policy of the time. Guitar Amps were a whole new ball game for me and testing them without even a multimeter required the development of the wet finger probe technique.....ooo that is about 80volts ... aarrrgghhh ferrrrkkk thats about 350volt..... etc etc not especially recommended in these days of the cheap multimeter.

I studied science at Adelaide University and whilst not entirely convinced about becoming a nuclear physist continued to teach myself about electronics. At this time my friend's bands had begun playing gigs and I was moved from fixing the amps to mixing front of house. Upon finishing university I set up a small workshop building custom "black boxes" for musicians, guitar equalisers, small mixers, compressors etc. All at a total financial loss but a worthwhile learning experience and a chance to hone my electronics skills. Through this work and a bit of luck I began work in the Electronic Music Department of the University of Adelaide as a technician and tutor. I stayed there for nearly ten years, designing and repairing equipment, teaching the technical aspects of electronic music, recording classical music and coordinating contemporary music performances. Some how I also mixed front of house 2 or 3 nights a week and played in a couple of bands.

During this time I designed and constructed an interactive "sound sculpture" for the 1988 World Expo in Brisbane, recieved a Australia Council grant to develop an electronic tuner for Marimba resonators and was commissioned to compose a multichannel music installation for the 1990 Adelaide Festival of Arts.

In 1992 I left the Electronic Music Department and went fishing for a couple of years.

After the fish went off the bite I returned to Adelaide and began work at JustWare as a pro-audio service technician.

Today I hang around my workshop beavering away at repair jobs, racking worthy channel strips and musing on the meaning of it all. In 2006 I launched Broadcast and spend time developing unique audio widgets that are available under the Broadcast banner. Sometimes I can be found wandering around the vast organic beast that is Mixmasters Productions, or penning articles for Audio Technology magazine.