John J. Volanski

John Volanski initially became interested in recording audio back in the 1960s in Ohio when his father first purchased a 4-track reel/reel recorder with the sound-on-sound feature. Since that time, audio engineering and sound recording have always been a part of his personal and professional pursuits.

John is an electrical, audio and systems engineer who has operated his own home recording studio for over 30 years. The text in his book gives his unique and simplified perspectives on the important aspects of home studio recording. He also enjoys writing, and has written articles for Electronic Musician magazine and Avionics magazine. John has a MBA from National University and a BSEE from The Ohio State University.

In his professional life as an electrical engineer, John has over 30 years of engineering design and management experience with successful product development of avionics simulator systems, defense computing systems, telecom filtering systems, security & surveillance systems, as well as work with Virtual Reality and systems using audio and video. He has held engineering design and engineering management jobs at BAE Systems, General Dynamics, Ball Systems Engineering, Tyco and Cubic Defense Systems. As part of his design and management duties, John won a patent for his work one of the first motion-based Virtual Reality machines and developed the world’s first Digital Time Lapse Video DVDRAM Recorder (which won the SIA Product of the Year award for CCTV for 2000).

John’s future plans include updating his book as more cool gear becomes available and pursuing his interests in audio engineering, electrical engineering, systems engineering and music.