Front of House & Live Sound Engineer for Touring Artists

Based in the UK and the US, working worldwide.
Mixing professionally since 1985. Arenas, festivals, broadcast.

Clients include:

Moby

New Order

Run The Jewels
Robyn & Röyksopp

John Pennington, front of house and live sound engineer, in a black and white portrait

About John

Front of house, monitor and broadcast mixing for electronic, rock and pop artists.

Mixing professionally since 1985, John brings studio technique to the stage: mixes with the detail of a record and the impact of a live show, on Avid S6L and the other major digital consoles.

Book John

Large mixing console with glowing faders in a dark sound control room

John's mix for Moby at Coachella 2026.

Your Sound, My Mix, Our Creation.
Touring in North America, The UK And The EU, Mixing monitors,

a stereo or 5.1 or Atmos broadcast mix,

or an enture album in the studio:

I bring the same ears to all of it.

Hear the mixes

BeefcakeJohn Pennington

00:00 / 00:32

Steppin’ OutJoe Jackson

00:00 / 04:08

Life in TokyoJapan

00:00 / 03:14

SleepwalkUltravox

00:00 / 03:14

ATL BelterJohn Pennington

00:00 / 00:16

Oh F**k!Pennington Sound

00:00 / 01:29

Tribe loopJohn Pennington

00:00 / 00:13

Fascinating RhythmBass-O-Matic

00:00 / 04:08

POLR (instrumental)Human League

00:00 / 03:19

Funky Drums for the FutureJohn Pennington

00:00 / 00:17

Nothin’ But a HeartbreakThe Flirtations

00:00 / 02:28

All Stood StillUltravox

00:00 / 01:15

Slave to the RhythmGrace Jones

00:00 / 00:03

Eye in the SkyThe Alan Parsons Project

00:00 / 00:17