Many of the Pristine Audio Direct reissues of recordings from the late '40s and early '50s were transferred and restored by Peter Harrison. 

Peter studied the violin until it left him on the grounds of
cruelty; then took up the tuba until it was used as an offensive weapon against him by an insurance salesman, breaking a tooth.  He decided that life on the other side of the microphone was probably safer. 

The first commercially-released LP he recorded came out in 1965, when he was also doing work for the BBC and a major record label, all of which led to his being thrown out of university.  He could also occasionally be found in recording studios in Woodstock, NY, and San Fransisco, though his memory of some of those events is a bit hazy. 

Forced to earn money for food, he had a career of sorts trying to persuade computers to do things that they are not naturally capable of, and in 1994 started his own business which continues today as disk2disc.  He now describes himself as "mostly retired" which means he spends only six days a week in his studio in the English New Forest, where he transfers and restores recordings in any one of a dozen formats for hundreds of satisfied (and one dissatisfied) clients. 

He has been associated with Pristine Audio Direct since its inception, and is delighted to be able to bring back into circulation wonderful but forgotten recordings some of which (he ruefully admits) were, when he started collecting records, "new releases".

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