LDI 2017

Jamie has been teaching and working in the field of sound system engineering, measurement and alignment for over 19 years. During his career, he has worked as a technical support manager and SIM instructor for Meyer Sound Laboratories, as a system engineer on tour for A-1 Audio (kd Lang) and UltraSound (Dave Matthews Band), and as a product manager and instructor for SIA and EAW. In 2008, he and 3 partners founded Rational Acoustics in order fully dedicate themselves to the development, support and training of the Smaart® acoustic test and measurement software platform. In the course of his professional career, Jamie has taught more than 275 Smaart and SIM® classes, for over 2500 students, in over 20 countries on 5 continents. He has been the house system engineer for 4 Montreux Jazz Festivals and 6 Telluride Bluegrass Festivals, has worked with Grateful Dead, Anita Baker and Louis Miguel tours and has been involved in hundreds of system alignments across a vast and diverse range of venues (studio to stadium) and applications (theatre, church, clubs, rock and roll tours, conventions, etc...). What he has learned from his career so far is that the art and practice of system alignment is as varied and expanding as the people, equipment and applications that encompass the field, that training classes are always a two-way street, and that anyone that understands their tools can create new and effective ways to use them.