The Five Percent

I’ve been around the biz most of my life, as my brothers were musicians. Then I married a rock star (together 33 years, married 31). Rest assured, I was never the Spinal Tap girlfriend.

Maria Elisa Ayerbe Barona grew up in Colombia and is a recording and mixing engineer, sound designer, and audio educator.

Daniella Peters is the head of the Sales Department and part of the management team at Rat Sound in Camarillo, CA. Like many in the music industry, Daniella essentially created her job.

Audio Engineer and creator of Soulsound.co.uk, Darryn de la Soul is passionate about taking the knowledge she and other engineers have gained through experience and passing it on and helping qualified people find work.

Claire got her start the same way as hundreds of backline techs do, by playing guitar and realizing the band thing just was not going to work out.

Karen Anderson is COO and Director of Marketing for Rational Acoustics the developer of Smaart. She started out at Meyer Sound in the early 90s.

Independent Engineer Amanda Davis is currently on tour mixing FOH for Janelle Monae. Although she started out briefly in the studio world she quickly found that Live Sound was where she wanted to be.

LP spent the better part of four years touring the country in a van, honing her skills as a fierce performer. Her songwriting credits include the Backstreet Boys, Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, and Joe Walsh.

Chez is an independent sound engineer based out of Los Angeles that enjoys work surrounding FOH, including mixing, teching, and designing sound systems. She is currently touring with the artist, […]