Glyn Thomas Johns is an English recording engineer and record producer. He has worked with many of the most famous rock recording acts from both the UK and abroad, such as the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Kinks, Eagles, Bob Dylan, the Band, Eric Clapton, the Clash, the Steve Miller Band, Small Faces, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and Joan Armatrading. Throughout his career, he has generally preferred a live, natural approach to recording in the studio, and developed a method of recording drums sometimes referred to as the "Glyn Johns method".
Johns, 1979
Glyn Johns's first session as a recording engineer was for popular skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan (pictured above) at IBC Studios in London, 1959
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones pictured in 1972. Glyn Johns engineered many of the group's recordings during the 1960s and 1970s.
Glyn Johns produced and engineered the Eagles' first three albums in the early- to mid-1970s.
An audio engineer helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound. Audio engineers work on the "technical aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, pre-amp knobs, the setting of levels. The physical recording of any project is done by an engineer…"
Noted audio engineer Roger Nichols at a vintage Neve recording console
Acoustic diffusing mushrooms hanging from the roof of the Royal Albert Hall
The Pyramid Stage
Live sound mixing
