Bruce Jackson (audio engineer)

Bruce Jackson
Jackson in 1985 mixing sound at Wembley Stadium for Bruce Springsteen
Born
Bruce Robert Jackson

(1949-06-03)3 June 1949
Sydney, Australia
Died29 January 2011(2011-01-29) (aged 61)
Death Valley National Park, California, United States
Occupation(s)Audio engineer, entrepreneur
Websitehttps://www.brucejackson.com.au/

Bruce Robert Jackson (3 June 1949 – 29 January 2011) was an Australian audio engineer who co-founded JANDS, an Australian audio, lighting and staging company. He joined American touring audio engineer Roy Clair and mixed concert stage monitors for Elvis Presley in the 1970s. With Clair Brothers, a concert sound company, Jackson designed audio electronics including a custom mixing console. Beginning in 1978, Jackson toured as Bruce Springsteen's band engineer for a decade, using Clair Brothers sound systems. A business interest in Fairlight CMI in Sydney introduced Jackson to digital audio, and he subsequently founded the digital audio company Apogee Electronics in Santa Monica, California, where he lived at the time. After selling his share of Apogee, Jackson co-founded with Roy and Gene Clair a joint venture which produced the Clair iO, a loudspeaker management system for control of complex concert sound systems. Jackson turned the venture commercial with the help of Dave McGrath's Lake Technology. Dolby Laboratories bought the technology and formed Dolby Lake with Jackson as vice president, then in 2009 Lab.gruppen acquired the brand. Jackson was honoured with the Parnelli Innovator Award in 2005 for his inventive loudspeaker controller.

While still a partner at Apogee, Jackson began touring with Barbra Streisand, mixing concert sound and serving as sound designer from 1993 to 2007. With two other audio engineers he received an Emmy Award for sound design and sound mixing on Streisand's TV special Barbra: The Concert.[1] Jackson worked on sound design for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney[2] and served as audio director for the opening and closing ceremonies.[3][4] He performed the same role in Doha, Qatar, at the 2006 Asian Games and in Vancouver, Canada, at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

  1. ^ "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Variety or Music Series or a Special". 1995 Emmy Awards. IMDb. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
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  3. ^ "Bruce Jackson, Elvis Presley Sound Engineer Killed in Plane Crash". Elvis News. Elvis Australia. 2 February 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
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