Not another software company.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with computers. I was fortunate enough to be one of the first kids in my school to have a computer as my mum worked in IT back before IT was even a thing. I spent my early teens tinkering and learning to code.

Music was everything to me. I remember living with my parents, and getting rid of my bed to make room for a console (A studiomaster 16-8-16) and a handful of outboard. Running Emagic Logic 5 on a battered old Windows machine. I spent my teenage years with my mates recording songs, rehearsing in basements, and playing shows.

I found myself working in musical theatre. I spent the next few years bouncing around London's theare district in musical theatre, such as 3 years on The Buddy Holly Story as Sound #2. The money sucked, but I loved it. On the side, I would code MySpace profiles for other bands and made websites for small businesses from my bedroom.

Eventually, I went back to software. I worked for agencies and startups in London, working my way through the ranks to become a Senior Software engineer. Evenings and weekends were spent working shows on the side as a FOH engineer. One day, the music overtook the software, and I found myself working full time in music. I toured Europe and the UK mixing some of the UK's biggest shows and festivals.

The COVID-19 pandemic hit, and like many others in the industry, I found myself out of work... Seismic DSP was born.