MICAH JOHNSON
The stones for Micah’s audio path were set early when he would run sound for his father’s church in Florida where he grew up. His love of sound grew through his teenage years as he became engrossed in car audio and participated in statewide bass contests. Shortly after earning a degree in Recording Arts at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida, Micah gained an assistant position at the famed Hit Factory in Miami, Florida. Working closely with artists such as Missy Elliot, Godsmack, Gloria Estefan, Enrique Iglesias, and Timbaland gave him an insatiable appetite and drive to take his career to the next level.
Without a second thought, Micah sold everything he owned to headed to the Golden Coast. Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, he secured a job at Capitol Records. While the job offered invaluable experience, the long hours and demanding schedule left much to be desired.
Micah was offered a position at the Santa Monica post production facility Radio In The Nude—an opportunity that would significantly shape his career path going forward. Micah spent several years honing in his sound design and mixing skills while working on national radio and tv campaigns. His career took a brief alternate course when given the chance to work on a feature film lot in Hollywood, Widget Post. Feeling the pull back to the post production studio life, Micah joined the team at Atlantis Group Recording in Santa Monica, California. There he spent close to a decade working on AAA video game titles, radio and tv spots, television and web series, audio books, and feature films. While growing his expertise and skill in post production, he also grew his family—marrying his engineer colleague and welcoming two children shortly after. Several years of raising children in Los Angeles without a single relative for a thousand miles made Micah’s next move very easy.
Micah put his family before career and moved with them back to his wife’s hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He spent the next two years teaching at the Institute of Production and Recording (IPR), where he earned the award for Instructor of the Year for inspiring students with his passion for audio and earnest desire for their success. While it had seemed that Micah had found his true calling as a teacher of audio, he still felt the pull back to post. Following his heart, Micah said a bittersweet goodbye to the students and staff at IPR and found his home at SisterBoss as a post production engineer and sound designer.