Jamie Howarth

Jamie Howarth (b. June 1953) is an American audio engineer, TV/film composer, and musical director who lives and works in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Howarth is best known as the founder and president of Plangent Processes company, which provides a specialized hardware/software playback system for master tapes transfer. Howarth studied at the Middlebury College (1971–'76) and lived in New York in the 1980s and '90s, working at several companies, including ABC-TV and The Hit Factory studio. He designed an original sound for ABC's '85 World Series broadcast and performed post-production mixing for various ABC programs. Jamie first encountered the issue of the "tape bias" distortion while analyzing tape stocks for Howard Schwartz Recording, NYC, explained to him by Tom Cahill (3) from Atlantic Studios. It took him over 20 years to finalize research and develop technology to negate audible distortions introduced by tape transport. In 2002, Jamie Howarth moved to Massachusetts and established his company, Plangent Processes, Inc. He presented the technology at the 177th AES Convention in October 2004 in San Francisco, with a paper "Correction of Wow and Flutter Effects in Analog Tape Transfers," co-written with Patrick J. Wolfe from the University of Cambridge. Jamie Howarth won three Daytime Emmy awards in 2000-2001 for his work on the TV series "One Life to Live," including for outstanding achievements in 'Live & Direct to Tape Sound Mixing for a Drama Series.'