The Five Percent

Inspired after attending Woodstock in 1969, Karen Kane began a journey that would start by learning to play music and wind up forty years later as a well-respected audio engineer with countless awards to her name, owning a professional studio, and teaching the next generation of audio engineers.

Independent engineer Melissa Britton has been mixing monitors for Jazz great Dave Koz since 2001. She spent her early days mixing five nights/week in night clubs and working for Dowlen Sound in Colorado.

Beginning her career in live sound at the age of 18, Karrie Keyes has been the monitor engineer for Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder for 27 years. She’s also spent 10 years 1990-2000 as monitor engineer for Red Hot Chili Peppers and has mixed a very diverse list of additional artists.

With a career that spans more than 25 years, Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato has made a living mixing FOH for a wide variety of artists and musical styles. Starting with the band ‘Spin Doctors’ in 1992, Michelle has been touring the world as an independent FOH Engineer, mixing major label artists.

Amy Powelson goes where the work is and where the wind blows, working in professional audio for over 20 years. Amy most commonly works as a FOH engineer for corporate and broadcast events, and as a monitor engineer on festivals.

Barbara Adams has a full plate. Not only is she the Full time House Engineer at Tin Angel- a listening room in Philadelphia, part time engineer at World Cafe Live, also in Phili.,

Leslie Ann Jones Part Two

Multiple Grammy winning Recording Engineer Leslie Ann Jones is a true trailblazer. A most respected and revered engineer among her peers with a career spanning decades, Leslie has had the pleasure of working with many incredibly talented artists PART 1...

Claudia Engelhart has been working in live sound for the last 30 Years. Raised by artists and musicians in Berkeley, CA, Claudia began her live sound career at the legendary jazz room Keystone Korner in San Francisco.