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I believe I heard Misner is the richest or second richest guy in Australia!
I think I would rather have PG as a CEO of my company than TM, I actually heard his 'taste' in music and mixing on SAE training CD's
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Tom Miesner is the Devil incarnate, he is a dodgy businessman, all be it very successful, who has made his money off the backs of students with stars in their eyes. He thoughts his credentials as a producer and mixer, which is un substantiated and out rite bullxxxx. The real story is that he started the school in Sydney with a 4 track 1/4 inch reel to reel with the founder of Leonard amps. He made a shitload of money quick , doing some dodgy deals and invested his money on the stock market. He started buying property and expanding the empire. He has his own personal stockbroker. Tom Miesner is "**** you" rich, they own all the buildings where the schools are located. He underpays his employees who are all former students, and in Australia has bought all his equipment tax free with an educational loophole. He has never appeared on the BRW rich list because all his money is in tax havens. He is arrogant , with no regard for anything but his way (Ask Byron Bay council or South Sydney council where he just started building with no permits!!). I was amongst the first to mix on his VR in Wentworth ave and he come into the session and wanted to know whether I was an ex student before I operated it, when I said no, but I have a degree in electrical engineering and offered to fix the wiring problem to the dat player and looked at the o2r providing the FX returns and asked "couldn’t you afford the extra sends????. He was used to pushing people around and did not like me standing up to him with logic. He told me that he had to maintain standards as "this was a neve" and he proceeded to normalise the console, to show off his new toy, I said thanks for that, "you are normalising my mix".
With that he disappeared, I mixed the track and refused to pay my bill, and the then studio manager gave me another day gratis. I have heard his work and he wouldn’t get a job a a tea boy in a major studio, if he is that good with that much gear and time on his hands , why is he not a major world class producer, where is his credits?????? All his own engineering work is about as credible as his PHD.
There are that many ex students who cannot get a job in the industry in Australia that by the laws of saturation could never be sustained in the local market, so he had to move overseas. Having said that, there has been lots of talented people come from SAE, but it is there talent and professionalism that has sustained them not the magic SAE stairway to the stars.
He may be a great businessman, but having Miesner buy AMS neve is like having Charles Manson mind your kids!!!!. He tried to buy 301 off Jim Tagg ages before he eventually purchased it. He also at one point was trying to buy Digidesign. This is not a case of Tall Poppy syndrome, he is just a deadshit individual.
At least Peter Gabriel is an amazing human being who's body of work and benevolent actions speak for itself.
My spleen is now officially vented
Ricky