About me
Dr. Ian Corbett is the Coordinator and Professor of Audio Engineering and Music Technology at Kansas City Kansas Community College. He also owns and operates "off-beat-open-hats LLC”, providing live sound, audio production, and recording services to clients in the Kansas City area. Highly active in the AES for over twenty years, Ian is Co-Chair of the AES Education Committee, and previously served as Vice President of the Central USA and Canada region. Throughout his career he has balanced education with professional employment in a wide variety of audio industry fields, including theater sound, television and radio, location concert recording, live sound reinforcement, and even forensic audio evidence recording. He has mixed FOH and occasionally monitors for many headline artists at venues around the USA. As the co-founder and technical director of the Electronic Music Midwest festival, he enjoys multichannel sound and presenting immersive concert experiences. An internationally recognized author and educator, his book, "Mic It! – Microphones, Microphone Techniques, and Their Impact on the Final Mix" is in its second edition, and he has also written articles for Sound On Sound and Live Sound International. His second book, "Mix It! – Understanding and Controlling the Mix Process" is scheduled for publication in March 2026. Ian holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in music composition, but he doesn’t do that much anymore...
