Simon Gibson - Mastering
Biography
Simon studied Music at the Royal College of Music, London and at Cambridge University, before joining Abbey Road Studios in 1990. He is equally at home with vintage analogue and cutting-edge digital equipment, is able to work in any musical genre and specialises in both stereo and surround mastering.
As one of the world's foremost audio restoration engineers, Simon was responsible for all of the audio restoration on the Grammy Award-winning Beatles Album Remasters as well as helping to create the individual musical lines for The Beatles Rockband Game from the original analogue master tapes. Recent restoration projects have included the new Blu-Ray version of Yellow Submarine, the George Harrison biopic Living in the Material World and the remaster of Wings’ Band on the Run album.
He has mastered 5.1 music DVDs for many major artists, including Robbie Williams, Kylie, U2, Keane, Sigur Ros (Heima), Nigel Kennedy and King's College Choir, Cambridge. For the Sky Arts channel, Simon has worked with Nigel Godrich on the music series From the Basement, upmixing stereo master audio to 5.1 for broadcast.
Highly respected as an archive remastering engineer, Simon won a Gramophone Award in 2007 for the remaster to CD of the Lyrita catalogue of music by British composers. For EMI, he has remastered and restored countless archive tapes from the LP era, both classical and pop. Since late 2010, Simon and his colleagues have been remastering catalogue recordings in high resolution from EMI’s classical archive for release on SACD by EMI Japan. This huge, ongoing project began with recordings made by the legendary German conductor, Wilhelm Furtwangler, including his acclaimed Wagner RING Cycle of four operas. This series of Furtwangler SACDs won the Special Project of the Year category at the 2011 49th Record Academy Awards in Japan. For a video of Simon explaining the project click here.
Simon also masters soundtrack albums for major Hollywood blockbusters, most recently The King's Speech and the 5.1 audio versions for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Parts 1 & 2).
In demand for interviews about the world of audio restoration and remastering, Simon has been featured on BBC Radio 2's The Record Producers and In Concert and will be part of the upcoming major TV series – On Record: The Soundtrack of our Lives. Simon also gives talks about his work, most recently to the UK branch of the AES in London and to the students on Surrey University's Tonmeister course. Outside the Studios, Simon plays the church organ and enjoys tennis and sailing, although not at the same time.
Full discography on following pages
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