Competition Winners

We’ve news of some more SOS Competition winners this month. September 2003’s competition prize, consisting of all four volumes of East West/Quantum Leap’s Symphonic Orchestra (Strings, Brass, Woodwinds and Percussion) was won by Mike Taylorfrom Southampton (pictured below). The four volumes, which have a total value of £2279 and were donated by Arbiter Music Technology (+44 (0)20 8970 1909/www.arbitergroup.com), were gratefully received by Mike, who shares a house-cum-project studio with other members of his band The Vinyl Frontier.

The competition prize in SOS November 2003 was a TC Electronic Powercore Firewire recording system, comprising a flightcased Powercore Firewire and MOTU 896 Firewire interface, plus a set of AKG K271 headphones and an AKG C3000B mic. Donated by TC Electronic (+44 (0)800 917 8926/www.tcelectronic.com) and worth over £2800 in total, it was a great prize and highly desirable to all but the most computer-phobic, judging by the massive number of entries! It was won by 23-year-old Matthew Stradling (pictured below), who graduated from Bristol University with a BSc in Music Systems Engineering last year. He’s already got his first mobile recording gig and has plans for more.

Jealous? Well you can have a go at entering the JULY issue competition in a week or so, when it goes live on the site — there are eight Camel Audio software bundles up for grabs.