About Us

Our consulting firm consists of a diverse team of Audio Engineers with a variety of digital audio experience. This allows our single firm to provide you with a range of services without the hassle of managing multiple consulting partners. Our contract will be simplified by appointment of a single point-source team member.

Our core team consists of only a few members, but our research and development team can be enhanced by utilizing a distributed team of independent experts throughout the industry, with our client's consent. Some of our most active core team members include the following:

Principal Consultants

Jon Boley

Jon Boley first became interested in audio in high school and was soon mixing front of house for a number of groups. Originally interested in sound effects, he quickly became interested in auditory illusions and psychoacoustics. Jon took a class in electronic equipment repair and found a job assembling and repairing electronics before going to college. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then went on to earn an M.S. in Music Engineering from the University of Miami. Meanwhile, he held a number of internship positions at Motorola and Shure, progressively doing more and more audio algorithm development. After finishing his Masters degree and working at Shure full-time for a couple years, he returned to school to pursue his passion.
Jon is passionate about understanding audio perception, in terms of both psychoacoustics and the underlying physiology. From 2007 through 2011, he divided his time between his PhD research (neural coding in the auditory system) and doing algorithm development with LSB Audio. He is now working as a research scientist for GN ReSound while finishing up his PhD. His interests include development of various algorithms that measure and/or improve auditory perception. He also has extensive experience designing and analyzing listening experiments.
E-mail: Jon@LSBaudio.com

Chris Santoro

Chris Santoro first became interested in music in elementary school by participating in string orchestra. From elementary through high school, he played a variety of string instruments: violin, cello, double bass, and guitar. Seeing an innate connection between music, mathematics, and computers led him to pursue a B.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Florida (2007).
During the last few years of college, Chris gained vital experience and expertise in digital signal processing (DSP) research by working as a DSP Engineer at the Electronic Communications Laboratory, where he developed real-time statistical signal classification algorithms for embedded military radar applications.
After undergrad, Chris narrowed his focus to audio DSP and earned an M.S. in Music Engineering Technology at the University of Miami. While at Miami, his research interests included Virtual Analog Synthesis and Music Information Retrieval. His thesis work explored the effect of perceptual coding on multiple fundamental estimation algorithms. While he was still in school, Chris successfully completed numerous projects as an independent contractor for startup audio companies in South Florida, and completed an internship at Shure. His experience as a successful, results-driven independent contractor led him to form LSB Audio with colleagues from the Music Engineering program at Miami. Through 2011, he split his time between designing plugins at SoundToys and developing audio algorithms with LSB Audio. Chris is now focusing on his work for SoundToys.
E-mail: Chris@LSBaudio.com

Mike Lester

Mike Lester began in the audio field as a teenage musician tinkering with used audio gear. After a start in college as a jazz musician he quickly found an affinity for electrical/computer engineering and began focusing on audio engineering by using his love for music to drive his education in engineering. He completed his Bachelors Degree in Music Engineering Technology, focusing on digital audio and DSP. A desire for expanding his technical knowledge then brought him to Purdue University and where he earned a Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He focused on Digital Signal Processing and his research thesis was on low latency filter banks for real-time audio processing.
After a couple internships, his professional career brought him to Shure Incorporated where he works on DSP system design as well as real-time DSP algorithm research and development for wireless and wired microphones, teleconferencing, and wireless data transmission. At Shure, he specializes in rapid prototyping and development of novel audio processing algorithms for unique audio problem solving. He is currently devoted to his work at Shure, but has occasionally helped out with algorithm development with LSB Audio. His research interests include intelligent audio processing, machine learning, and applying audio processing to unique situations.
E-mail: Mike@LSBaudio.com