Career
After moving to London in his early 20"s to study a degree in electronics, he embarked on a notable career as an elecronics engineer In 1969, he was obliged to recuscitate a loss-making company with the help of "old man Batiste" called Allen & Heath, which to this day still specialises in the manufacture of audio mixing consoles. In the early 70"s, Andy Bereza formed a company called Bachelor of Arts Audio.
Andy Bereza"s audio engineering career peaked in 1979 with the creation of the, finally developed by TASCAM. The was a device which enabled artists, for the first time, to carry a "portable studio" around with them.
Although today, with digital technology, portable recorders are almost ubiquitous. At the time, the revolutionized how artists recorded music
lieutenant was the first device that had four inputs for microphones and a tape recorder to record four simultaneous tracks. This meant that musicians, for the first time, could record almost studio quality music whenever and wherever they liked.
