Biography

Alan Haigh has over 20 years international experience of professional audio consultancy and engineering. He graduated from the Tonmeister course in 1990 and  has since worked at several of the UK's top recording studios including CTS, Westside and Pink Floyd's Britannia Row. He went freelance in 1997 and has since been responsible for technical support at some of the worlds largest film premieres such as 'Spiderman', 'Casino Royale', several 'Harry Potter's and 'Mamma Mia'.

In 2008 he completed a ground breaking new sound system installation at the Norwegian Film Institute using a Yamaha DME64N processor. This unit has since become the standard in Norway. In 2011 he aligned every cinema screen in and around Oslo as part of their digital upgrade programme.

He has installed many studios as diverse as David Arch (Strictly Come Dancing), Colin Towns (Midsomer Murders), "Wix" Wickens (Paul McCartney), and Technicolor Lab's optical transfer suite, plus, of course, the studios of the University of Surrey's world renowned Institute of Sound Recording.