Production Team - Mark Kirchner

Originally a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mark has been in San Diego for the past four years expanding his business, Edit System Rentals, into the Southern California audio market. Edit System Rentals is a full service audio production and rental company featuring Digidesign Pro Tools HD systems and Avid Media Composers.

Along with providing rental systems for recording studios and editorial facilities, Mark also spends much of his time involved in audio production and mixing - generally with a focus on post production related projects. Mark is the Sound Supervisor for an animation company located in National City, Ca., called Grand Design, which develops 3D animated television programming for kids with positive moral messaging.

Mark and his company ESR also provide remote recording services, which is how he came to be connected with Adams Entertainment and Primal Twang. The 80 channels of audio captured each night during the four Primal Twang shows held in September of 2006 will be consolidated and mixed into one live surround sound DVD.

Prior to starting ESR in 2000, Mark spent 14 years with Digidesign leading groups in both Technical Support and Marketing Communications.

Besides running ESR, Mark is also a cofounder and Digidesign Certified Expert Pro Tools Instructor at AudioMe, where he teaches 'Pro Tools for Post Production' classes. AudioMe is one of Digidesign's few Premiere Pro Schools located in downtown San Francisco.

In the wintertime, there's a good chance you'll run into Mark snow-boarding at one of the various ski areas around Lake Tahoe.