Bringing your sound to life

Founder & lead engineer

Pedro Filipe Martins

With more than 25 years of professional experience across live sound, recording, broadcast and system engineering, Pedro Martins has built a career defined by technical excellence, relentless curiosity and a commitment to continuous learning.

His work spans some of the industry's most demanding environments, from major international tours and broadcast productions to large-scale public events and world-class venues. During 2025 alone, Pedro delivered system engineering and FOH responsibilities for the Vatican Jubilee Concert in Rome, worked on Mary J. Blige's European tour, handled monitor engineering for Megadeth's European run, and provided PA and system engineering for high-profile events featuring Barack Obama and Ed Sheeran's Spotify Billions Club. His portfolio also includes major festival productions such as Electric Picnic, Forbidden Fruit and All Together Now, alongside arena-scale productions at Dublin's 3Arena.

Beyond touring and live events, Pedro has served as project lead and technical liaison on productions for organisations including the United Nations, Rock in Rio and the World Food Programme. He has also held house engineering positions at some of Ireland's most respected venues, including 3Olympia Theatre, Vicar Street, The Academy and The Sugar Club, while contributing to broadcast and corporate productions through NEP Ireland, including Six Nations Rugby coverage, and numerous projects for Lumio.

What distinguishes Pedro's approach is a foundation built on measurement, science and an enduring fascination with sound. A certified Smaart,RiTA operator and Crosslite+, he has completed advanced training and optimisation programmes with Meyer Sound, L-Acoustics and d&b audiotechnik, and is currently pursuing an MSc in Acoustic Engineering. Alongside his professional practice, he shares this knowledge as a lecturer in Live Sound at Pulse College.

That passion for audio began long before his professional career. As a child, Pedro spent countless hours dismantling electronic toys and remote-controlled cars to understand how they worked, experimenting with wiring loudspeakers and hi-fi systems in series, and building improvised sound systems from whatever equipment he could find. By the age of twelve, he was creating live edits at house parties using multiple hi-fi systems connected together, producing mashups directly to tape and even manipulating playback speed manually to create slow-down effects long before digital audio workstations made such techniques commonplace.

At fourteen, he became the youngest fully certified DJ in Portugal, a distinction that reflected not only talent but an unusually early dedication to the craft. By sixteen, he was already producing music, edits and audio content for casinos and television productions distributed nationally and internationally. Soon after, he established his own recording studio, providing recording, production, mixing, mastering and audio restoration services, earning credits on a range of international projects.

While the scale of the productions has evolved dramatically since those early experiments, the underlying motivation remains unchanged: an enduring curiosity about sound, technology and human perception. Whether optimising a stadium-scale PA system or exploring advanced acoustic theory, Pedro continues to approach every project with the same mindset that first led him to take apart electronics as a child — a desire to understand how things work, how they can work better, and how knowledge can be transformed into exceptional listening experiences.

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