Mike Thornton Email & Phone Number

Manchester, GB

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

I will be going quiet for a season, my retirement plan starts with a complete stop, a sabbatical if you like, where I am going to take a complete break from everything. Then after a few months start to plan what I want to do and not do in this next phase of my life. I will still be a part of the blog as chairman of Production Expert Ltd, so I have not gone.

Manchester, United Kingdom

As COO, I oversee the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of a business as well as strategic planning for the future.Co-founder of some of the most successful music and audio production blogs on the planet. Pro Tools Expert, Logic Pro Expert, and Studio One Expert offer news, tips and tricks for users of the some of the most popular audio.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Although I have been offering loudness training since 2012, With recent events I felt it was time to set up The Loudness Practice. With The Loudness Practice, I can more formally offer my advice and experience to broadcasters, production companies, in fact, anyone who needs to deliver or handle loudness compliant content. A number of busy audio.

A varied client base who are look to me for a more creative and editorial input to their content confirming our position as an audio 'one stop shop'. I have completed a number of projects that involved me in a sound design and production role, drawing from my significant experience, this is proving to be a successful extension to the range of services. A.

I provide loudness training to help professionals to make the transition from peak normalisation to loudness normalisation. I have presented courses in Dubai, Portugal and the BBC in London.I provide 5.1 surround production and acquisition training and consultancy to both broadcast and post production facilities. For example a 5 day course for OSN in Dubai.

In 1990 I went freelance and undertook a lot of OB work for companies like Chrysalis TV Mobiles and my previous employer Key 103. Another client was VisionLink Satelite Services providing my services as a Technical co-ordinator for high profile satellite conferences with multiple international linkups. Clients included:- SmithKline Beecham, Shell, AT & T.

United Kingdom

The Support Squad was created after recognising that areas such as quality control and technical support often suffer when resources are limited.Small developers are working 24/7 to give their customers the best possible service, which takes away from their development time and impacts their personal life.With ever-decreasing staff budgets, larger.

Production Expert is a unique group of blogs developed over the last decade to bring unparalleled learning resources for the music creation and post-production communities coupled with up-to-date news and opinion grounded in our fearless independence.The Production Expert team are first and foremost professionals working daily in music and post-production..

I write a workshop every month on Pro Tools outlining a feature or function in Pro Tools. Recently I have covered Region List management, Splitting Sessions, Handling Missing Files and a series of tips and tricks for beginners and experienced users a like.

The site has a single aim; to be the number one Pro Tools support community on the web. We get around 140,000 visitors a month checking out over 500 free patches for Structure, over 20 hours of video training comprising of over 400 FREE HD videos. There’s much more, so welcome.

The aim of the partnership is to bring together our expertise and influence for the benefit of the Pro Tools Community in both music and post and to offer manufactures and distributors a single point of access to the huge community this will create.

I am an accredited competence assessor assessing the new ITV Creative & Media apprenticeship scheme.

I am an accredited competence assessor assessing the new BBC Creative & Media apprenticeship scheme.

A varied client base who are look to me for a more creative and editorial input to their content confirming our position as an audio 'one stop shop'. I have completed a number of projects that involved me in a sound design and production role, drawing from my significant experience, this is proving to be a successful extension to the range of services.

I provide 5.1 surround production and acquisition training and consultancy to both broadcast and post production facilities. Recently I ran a 5 day course for OSN in Dubai which included assisting them with developing workflows and integrating the new loudness specs.

I was an audio dubbing editor & mixer and a Digidesign Pro Tools specialist with a growing experience in 5.1 surround. I work in radio, TV sound, and 'new media' and I am committed to high quality in all areas at an affordable price.

I am an accredited NVQ assessor for the media industry currently working on the Advanced Media Apprenticeship that has been piloted here in Manchester and is being rolled out across the country now.

We were a co-operative of radio producers pitching, selling and making radio programmes for clients like BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service with a wealth of experience in story telling and programme making and could help your organisation get its message across.

The Omnibuss Mobile was an ex BBC B type sound OB wehicle that we re-fitted out with new equipment and handled a wide range of music recording and broadcast OB work for broadcasters like Granda TV and Border TV working with artists like U2, The Saw Doctors, Daniel O'Donnell and Ken Dodd.We became the first OB truck to be Dolby Surround capable and I mixed.

I then became the outside broadcast department and built two HGV outside broadcast vehicles. The first a mobile stage vehicle - The Star Truck and the second a music recording OB vehicle - The Multi Truck. I was responsible for all the stations OBs including FA cup finals, taking the breakfast show out and about to places like Dublin, a bus on the bus.

I worked as maintenance engineer on a 4 week shift cycle improving the station's infrastructure and keeping it on the air

Once I had completed my apprenticeship I became Marconi's sole audio test engineer in the broadcast section. On the development side as there hadn't been a specialist audio development engineer in the company for some time I started to modify and re-design products to improve them including the audio channels on the Marconi Mk 9 camera and the Marconi MR2.

I served my apprenticeship as a block release student at The Chelmer Institute and in the first year also was trained in the Marconi Training school to use a mill, lathe, solder to military spec, and technical drawing. In the second and third years I was supposed to be on placement in different parts of the company. However after my first placement in "TV.