Tim Goodyer

Tim Goodyer is a British professional audio journalist and blogger. After playing keyboards in bands in the Midlands during the late 1970s and early 1980s, he joined the staff of Electronics & Music Maker in 1985 (relaunched as Music Technology afterwards) and took on the editorship in 1987, which he held for five years.
A newsstand magazine focusing on keyboards, synthesizers, sampling, MIDI and their associated technology, Music Technology was quick to pick up on the emergence of dance music in the 1990s, covering it extensively alongside synthpop and more experimental forms of electronic music, through artist interviews, equipment reviews and technical features. Moving to Cambridge to accept the position, his experience of electronic instruments, recording and UK record labels were key to his move into journalism, and he was also staff photographer for the Music Maker group of magazines, which included Guitarist, Rhythm and Hip-Hop Connection, to which he also contributed. Later acquired by Future plc along with the other titles then owned by Music Maker Publications, Music Technology is no longer published but remains a source of reference. During this period he also contributed a technical music column to video magazine Zero, from Dennis Publishing.
In 1992 he took the editorship of Studio Sound, a long-standing international technical journal for the professional audio industry, where he became its longest-serving editor. First published in 1959 as The Tape Recorder, this initially served recording enthusiasts before identifying itself with the recording and broadcast industries. Studio Sound was highly influential magazine throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (it broke the story of the discovery of the unreleased Beatles song Free as a Bird) but suffered as new technology undermined the ‘old school’ of professional recording studios, many of which were subsequently to close as they lost business to a new style of ‘home’ or . He was editor when Studio Sound itself was closed by publisher United Business Media in 2001 as a cost-cutting exercise, along with a number of the company’s other titles.
In 2002, he was co-founder of Pro Audio Asia magazine. Although UK based, this is a news-led English-language audio magazine serving the professional sound industry in China, Southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand. The success of Pro Audio Asia in its original form prompted a Simplified Chinese edition and the subsequent launch of Pro Audio Middle East in 2004, serving the professional sound industry in the Middle East and parts of Africa. In 2006, Worship Audio Asia (renamed Worship AVL Asia in 2010) targeted the sound and lighting technicians in houses of worship across Asia and the Middle East. He was editor and website manager across all titles, which remain current with Blank Canvas Publishing.
Having relinquished his interest in Blank Canvas Publishing, he set up Fast-and-Wide.com in 2010, a news service and blog for the international professional audio industry. Now Brighton-based, Tim Goodyer is also a freelance writer and photographer, with particular interest in music and technology. He is the brother of illustrator Clive Goodyer.
Selected works
*Recording Studio Design (Contributor) (Philip Newell, 2004) ISBN 0-240-51917-5 (UK)
*The Music Business (Picture contributor) (Andrew Blake, 1992) ISBN 0-7134-6662-6 (UK)

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