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$15 USD / hour

glasgow,

united kingdom

$15 USD / hour

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Joined July 7, 2012

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Neil M.

@neilmckenzie

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Sound engineer & Video editor.

## BIO I am a professional sound engineer who works freelance with various bands and studios around Glasgow. I am certified in the use of both Avid Pro Tools and Apple's Logic Studio Software. I have recorded and mixed a variety of genres(singer song writers, Jazz, rock, Heavy Rock, Heavier Rock, hip hop electronic, dance etc.) for both physical and digital release. I teach Logic, Pro Tools and Final Cut Pro in local high schools and colleges as well as running my own business providing media services to people in the local music industry. ## Area of Expertise -Certified by Apple in Logic Studio(to Master Pro Level) -Certified by Avid in Pro Tools(to level 201) -Completed official Ableton Live training(101) -Masters of Engineering in "Electronics and Music"(2003)

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Anton & The Colts are a Glasgow based band. They asked me to video them live in their practice studio. The full video is shown here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd6SGCg5euo

Anton & The Colts - Live in Studio - Video

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Dirty Diamond - Studio Setup, Studio Recording

1480748

The Wee House Company are a housing company in the west of Scotland. They asked my company to produce a time lapse video of their latest house build. We also supplied incidental music for the corporate video. The full video is available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9XbMbJilAs

Wee House Company - Corporate video production

1484746

Orry Caren and Megamegaman are hip hop artists from Glasgow. They asked me to record and video a live set of them playing acoustically. The full video is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qo1Mq1LO04

Orry Caren & Megamegaman - Video and Audio

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Rock Choir are a contemporary community choir. They were recording in the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London and asked me to video the sessions. The full video is available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBcTLcCdR3E

Rock Choir - Live at Abbey Road - Video

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I provide Mastering of audio tracks in a variety of genres. Please see video for examples. The full res video is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-p69ImBEWQ

Audio mastering

1483643

Anton & The Colts - Live in Studio - Video

1483657

Dirty Diamond - Studio Setup, Studio Recording

1480748

Wee House Company - Corporate video production

1484746

Orry Caren & Megamegaman - Video and Audio

1483582

Rock Choir - Live at Abbey Road - Video

1483426

Audio mastering

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Native English UK - Scotland Speakers needed

Communication with Neil was very smooth and timely fashion, he understood the assignment right away and deliver with a good quality. I'm very happy to had him in our project.

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Experience

Ayrshire College

Jan 2014 - Present

I teach sound production in a local college. This involves teaching Pro Tools, Ableton and recording techniques.

Keep It Creative

Oct 2011 - Present

Working with local bands and artists. -Albums recorded for digital and/or physical release experience with a variety of genres Competent in the use of Pro Tools(certified - see Education), Logic (certified - see Education), Audacity, Garageband, Ableton, Native Instruments Komplete Package, Final Cut Pro Experience in live sound set up and engineering for small - medium venues Consultancy role in setting up several music venues in Amsterdam. Networks of musicians, artists and venues Home studio for recording and mixing

Dedicon, Amsterdam

Feb 2007 - Oct 2011 (4 years, 8 months)

Responsible for the financial and Scientific co-ordination of European Commission research projects. Management of teams of researchers at both a local and international level Organisation, participation and chairing of international Workshops, Symposia and Events Project Coordination and management from project proposal stage to final exploitation. Typical Project size - €4 Million, 10 partners Networking and Dissemination for fund raising and project acquisition Responsible for several music research projects.

Education

Meng - Electronics and Music(1st Class)

The University of Glasgow,

United Kingdom

1998 - 2003

(5 years)

Qualifications

Avid

2012

Avid Pro Tools 201 - Napier University, Edinburgh

Avid

2012

Avid Pro Tools 110 - Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA

Ableton

2012

Ableton Live 101 - Ayr College

Publications

Making Music Accessible

Springer

Musical material is a very rich corpus of data. Data with all kinds of features, entities, relations and a potentially endless number of abstraction levels on all these perspectives. It is therefore important to establish which set of elements we are going to use for the preservation, processing and provision of music; which features are redundant; which building blocks are mandatory; and how many can be shared amongst all of them. These considerations hold especially true for the community that is dependen

Producing accessible multimedia music

IEEE

It is axiomatic that accessibility should be an integral component of any system, and this component is only now beginning to receive the attention it merits. Where such a component is considered integral to the design process, the resulting system benefits on many different levels. For music production and consumption systems, the 'workaround' nature of traditional accessibility enhancements could be replaced by a naturally available transformation and representation feature. However, given the ever-chan