Audrey Martinovich is co-owner at Audio for the Arts, a recording studio in Madison, Wisconsin, where she serves as audio engineer and music producer. She is also an audio lecturer at the University of Wisconsin; a board member of the Chicago chapter of The Recording Academy and is a member of its Producers & Engineers Wing; an active member of the Audio Engineering Society; an advocate for the SoundGirls organization; and much more. Between her recording work, running a business, and her various professional affiliations, she certainly stays busy, so when it comes to her audio components of choice, she prefers to leave no need for guesswork or room for doubt. And when she is working in the studio or, as she often is, recording on location, she relies on the rock-solid performance of interfaces from Focusrite.
Martinovich was pursuing an education as an opera vocalist when she was inspired to pivot to audio. “I discovered that I had this very deep interest in how to make things sound good and how to translate what I might hear in my head to what we could hear then with our ears,” she recalls.
“In the audio program, I was usually the only woman in all of my classes, and that gave me the drive to excel. I took it very seriously and looked around for studios around Madison that might have internship opportunities and came across Audio for the Arts, which was one of the only studios that really specialized in classical music and acoustic music, which aligned with my interests and expertise. I started at the studio as an unpaid intern and then eventually worked my way up to being a full-time engineer and one of the owners.”
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