To whom it may concern

John Harris has been the "go to" recording and mixing engineer for most live broadcast U2 concert events for many years.

John takes a leading role in creating the final mix and in achieving the desired sound on the principle instruments and voices.

With our approach there is a huge amount of different content to be incorporated, which necessitates a rigorous and highly organized methodology.  My guitar system alone generates 10 separate inputs.

The reason we found ourselves gravitating to John over the years has been his ability to recreate the atomosphere, dimension, and dynamic impact of a live concert experience in a stereo mix under great pressure and in an efficient and reliable manner.

There are a number of engineers who can create a powerful "post produced" live concert music mix, but in the many years of working in a live broadcast context, no one has proved as skillful or reliable as John at getting a live mix that meets U2 band approval, mixing as he must do in real time.

In some other cases even with the option of a post production phase we have used John to record because we have the reassurance that the source elements and concert audience sources will be recorded to the highest possible quality.

For that reason John has mixed and recorded many of our most notable live concert performances  Starting in the 1980's up to present day.

Although John usually works with traditional mobile recording studios with multi channel desks and outboard equipment I would have the confidence that he can apply his methodology to the latest computer based software systems and modern plug in effects technologies bringing to bear his vast experience of how to record and mix live events in real time.

Regards

The Edge