Markkus Rovito - MMtech Online

Location

San Francisco, CA

School

E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University

Expertise

Pro and Consumer Audio Gear, DJ and Music Creation Hardware and Software, Electric Vehicles

Markkus puts his audio technology penchant into practice as a performing musician and DJ, both at live venues and streaming.
He started covering electric vehicles in 2009 and has traveled multiple times to four European countries to test drive EVs.
Due to a once-unhealthy obsession with synthesizers and audio gear, Markkus can tell you both how to set up a home recording studio, and why you probably shouldn't.

Experience

Markkus is a technology media pro thoroughly preoccupied with music and audio, and the people and things that create them. He's worked on-staff at Electronic Musician, Maximum PC, DJ Tech Tools, Maximum Tech, Keyboard, E-Gear, and Remix, as well as contributed to Mix, MusicTech, Gearspace, and other fine outlets. Markkus is also an enthusiast of regenerative and/or zero-waste systems and the circular economy, and believes in the responsibility to technology part of a more efficient world. In 2009, he joined Charged EVs to cover the movement to electrify transportation. Later he joined the Autodesk Redshift publication as a contributing editor, branching out into the architecture, construction, and manufacturing technology that makes the modern world run. The award-winning Redshift team tells the the stories of companies large and small that attempt to do more with less and make a world that works for everyone.

Education

Markkus attended the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, earning a degree in Magazine Journalism. His coverage of music and movies as a staff writer for the independent student newspaper, The Post, won a stipend for traveling to absorb arts and culture.

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