Staff Profiles

Originally born in Sweden, Bjorn recently moved to Manchester after finishing his B.A. degree in sound engineering and music production. In addition to his work at GRS as a in house engineer, Ruben also works as an freelance live engineer. He is also a great musician and songwriter and loves particularly working with live acts in the studio, acoustic as well as rock.

*Lester* is GRS's head engineer. With over a decade of experience in the music industry, you might recognise him as the guitarist and producer of the rock band, The Bombjacks (now broken up). Lester has virtually grown up in recording studios, be it recording with his own band or producing and engineering other bands. With his wealth of knowledge, skills and unquestionable talent, you can rest assured that you are in the very best of hands with Lester at the controls. Having run one of the top UK independent record labels, Hectic Records, for the better part of a decade, Lester found his calling in recording and producing. After studying at SAE and honing his recording and production skills in his home studio for a number of years, Lester joined us at Ignition Studios in 2000.		*Sean* is the newest member of GRS and takes care of GRS's technology, business & marketing matters. He has lived in South Africa, Hong Kong and Mauritius before coming to the UK 8 years ago where he studied Computer Science, Economics and German at The University of York. He is a company director for Low-rider Media Ltd, a media company with strong interests in new media communications, software development & consultancy, audio recording and production. In joined us in the latter part of 2004.
Originally born in Sweden, Bjorn recently moved to Manchester after finishing his B.A. degree in sound engineering and music production. In addition to his work at GRS as a in house engineer, Ruben also works as an freelance live engineer. He is also a great musician and songwriter and loves particularly working with live acts in the studio, acoustic as well as rock. Book a Service >>		*Ben* studied music since early age and bought his first 4 track tape recorder at the age of 14 to record his songs. At 20 he moved to London to deepen his knowledge in music production. At 24 he even designed his first 12 channel desk which he used in many recordings. After 10 years of freelance work, engineering and producing in London's top studios and also doing live session work throughout Europe, he decided to join us at GRS.

Meet The Team
At GRS we pride ourselves on our welcoming staff who are happy to help with more than just your recording. Grammy Award Winning engineer Lester, has a wealth of experience and we have an excellent maintenance engineer Sean who is more than happy to help with technical queries. Read more about our staff that use the studio below. If you would like to check out the staff's CV's, then click on their name.