Patrick Smith is an Emmy and Grammy award-winning audio engineer. He is the former Director of Audio for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where he worked for 22 years mixing over 4500 shows supervising all audio concerns, which encompassed sfx editing, recording voice-overs, field recording, and postproduction. Smith is also recognized as one of the top recording and mixing engineers in the world. He has recorded, mixed, Produced, and mastered over 70 award-winning recordings for legendary Grammy, Emmy, and Pulitzer winning artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Curtis Mayfield, Les McCann, New Kids on the Block, Elvin Jones, Terence Blanchard, Ray Brown, Harry Connick, Jr., and Kenny Garrett. He has recorded and mixed film scores for Spike Lee, Sidney Lumet, and John Singleton. His television credits include projects for Fox, NPR, ESPN, HBO, NBC, ABC, PBS, Apple, Facebook, NETFLIX and several documentaries for the award-winning director/producer Ken Burns. He is also an accomplished live sound mixer who has mixed in iconic venues from Carnegie Hall to Sydney Hall.Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Patrick became a top trombonist and drum major for Fulton High School. He then went on to graduate from Berklee College of Music with a degree in Music Production and Engineering. He also lectures at colleges and universities around the world. He is also a highly regarded consultant for recording studios and production companies.Smith is currently mixing top TV shows American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Little Big Shots, Show Time at the Apollo, To Tell the Truth, The Drew Barrymore Show, US Open Tennis, and the Harry TV Show. He is also working on two motion pictures with producer/director Dan Pritzker, and mixing albums for Delfeayo Marsalis, Jeff Watts, Connie Han, Willie Jones III, Richard Johnson, Javon Jackson and Jazz at Lincoln Center.