I’m an audio restoration engineer and mastering specialist with 15 years of experience working exclusively on archival and historically significant recordings. My project list includes James Bond franchise soundtracks, The Godfather trilogy, Star Wars 40th Anniversary, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Midnight Cowboy—across 300 releases for Quartet Records, La-La Land, Intrada, and Kritzerland.…

Chris Malone

I’m an audio restoration engineer and mastering specialist with 15 years of experience working exclusively on archival and historically significant recordings. My project list includes James Bond franchise soundtracks, The Godfather trilogy, Star Wars 40th Anniversary, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Midnight Cowboy—across 300 releases for Quartet Records, La-La Land, Intrada, and Kritzerland.…

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I’m an audio restoration engineer and mastering specialist with 15 years of experience working exclusively on archival and historically significant recordings.

My project list includes James Bond franchise soundtracks, The Godfather trilogy, Star Wars 40th Anniversary, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Midnight Cowboy—across 300 releases for Quartet Records, La-La Land, Intrada, and Kritzerland.

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Mix
Expert

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Work Experience

Director and Principal Engineer at Malone Digital
May 1, 2007 - Present
Specialist archival audio restoration, mixing, and mastering for record labels, film studios, broadcasters, and institutions. Restores historical film score recordings using processes such as declicking/decrackling, wow/flutter correction, azimuth correction, and noise management; performs multi-track mixing and mastering for CD/vinyl/SACD/digital; supports DDP authoring; conducts vinyl-to-digital restoration and monophonic-to-stereo upmix conversions. Also provides advisory work to audio technology companies on AI tool evaluation and archival workflow development. Delivered 300+ releases, including James Bond franchise titles and other major archival soundtrack projects.

Education

Master of Marketing at University of Melbourne, Melbourne Business School
August 1, 2011 - December 1, 2013
Bachelor of Information Technology at Flinders University of South Australia
March 1, 1995 - December 1, 1998

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Computers & Electronics, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Government
    The IPCRESS File

    Partnering with producer Leigh Phillips, conductor Adam Klemens, and Quartet Records, I handled the mixing and mastering stages—balancing the iconic, razor-sharp cimbalom against a stark, moody jazz ensemble to honour Barry’s definitive cold-war blueprint.