Michael is a freelance system engineer and the technical editor of ProSoundWeb and Live Sound International magazine. He is also a Smaart instructor for Rational Acoustics, where he acts as Product Manager for Smaart's SPL toolset. Michael has been interested in audio since age 14, when he was left unattended in his school's auditorium. He hosts the Signal to Noise podcast on ProSoundWeb, where he has interviewed each of this session's panelists.