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jackson bruce springsteen in 1985 mixing sound at wembley stadium for 29 january 2011 death valley national park , california , united states sydney , australia 03 june 1949 bruce jackson mixing springsteen at wembley.jpg bruce jackson -lrb- audio engineer -rrb-
 bruce jackson audio engineer , entrepreneur
bruce jackson -lrb- audio engineer -rrb-

bruce robert jackson -lrb- 3 june 1949 -- 29 january 2011 -rrb- 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 '' .
jackson worked on sound design for the 2000 summer olympics in sydney and served as audio director for the opening and closing ceremonies .
he performed the same role in doha , qatar , at the 2006 asian games and in vancouver , canada , at the 2010 winter olympics .
