The Five Percent

Bryony October is an independent live sound engineer who started touring when she 15. She has toured as a merch-seller, catering assistant, and backline tech before moving into live sound. She has been working in live sound for the last 20 years.

Lisa Affenzeller is an independent FOH Engineer, who works mainly with Heavy Metal bands, such as Butcher Babies, TesseracT, Kobra & the Lotus, Devin Townsend Project, Overkill, Annihilator. She has been working in the industry for over ten years.

Lauren Deakin Davies has worked for six years as an independent record producer and engineer. She recently worked for SoundLab Studios for a few months before starting work as a production assistant to Gary Barlow in London. 

Maya Finlay is a sound engineer that works in live sound, as well as in the studio recording, editing, mixing and producing. Maya works both freelance and for the SFJAZZ Center as well as Dolby Laboratories and recently has started touring with Rosanne Cash as her Monitor Engineer. She has been working in professional audio...

Petra Randewijk is an independent sound engineer based in The Netherlands. Petra has been working in audio for 21 years, and she is currently on tour with Imogen Heap as the FOH Engineer.

Lucy J Mitchell is a freelance Sound Editor and Dubbing Mixer for TV, Film and Computer Games living on the Surrey-London border. Lucy has been working in the Audio Post Production industry for ten years and works on all genres and all areas of sound editorial.

Annette Guilfoyle is a freelance monitor engineer. She has been working in the industry for over 23 years and is currently on tour as the monitor engineer for Florence and The Machine.

Shawn Holden recently received an Emmy for her work on the Disney+ series “The Mandalorian.” Holden is a production sound mixer on the series, and she, along with Re-Recording Mixer Bonnie Wild and Scoring Mixer Chris Fogel, won the Emmy for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation for their...

Shannon Deane has been working in post-production sound for over 15 years. Shannon has been working as a freelance engineer for the last ten years, and her specialties are sound design, editing, and mixing for film, TV and new media. She owns, operates and works as creative director and ninja for DeaneCreative.