Simon Gibson's Biography

Simon studied Music at the Royal College of Music, London and at Cambridge University, before joining Abbey Road 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 Beatles Album Remasters as well as helping to create the individual musical lines for The Beatles Rockband Game from the original analogue master tapes.  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 worked with Nigel Godrich on the music series From the Basement, upmixing the stereo master audio to 5.1 for broadcast.

Highly respected as an archive remastering engineer, Simon recently completed the transfer to CD of the entire Lyrita catalogue of music by British composers and won a Gramophone Award in 2007 for one of these CDs.  For EMI, he has remastered and restored countless archive tapes from the LP era, both classical and pop, and has been responsible for many of the legendary recordings of Maria Callas and Herbert von Karajan.  Simon also masters soundtrack albums for major Hollywood blockbusters, most recently The Golden Compass and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.  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 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 Institute of Broadcast Sound in London and to the students on Surrey University's Tonmeister course.

Outside the Studios, Simon plays the church organ on a regular basis and enjoys sailing whenever possible, although not both at the same time...