ANDY  HOLT

WRITER / EDITOR / CREATOR

LOS ANGELES


Copywriting

Print

Guitar Center. Be Heard. Print, Holiday 2019.

Guitar Center. Music Unites Us. Print, Winter 2021.

Email campaigns

Guitar Center. Welcome email series.

Landing pages

Guitar Center. Dream Big. Landing page.

Mackie. GO Places. Landing page.

Product pages

Logitech Blue Sona

Logitech Yeti

Logitech G Yeti for the Aurora Collection

Mackie ShowBox

Mackie MainStream

Mackie MobileMix

Mackie DLZ XS

Mackie ProFX12v3+

Mackie ProFX10 GO

Blogs

How to Choose the Best Audio Interface (Guitar Center)

The Best MIDI Controllers of 2024 (Guitar Center)

The Best Snare Drums of 2024 (Guitar Center)

How to Choose the Best Electronic Drum Kit (Guitar Center)

9 Reasons You Should Use a Podcast Mixer (Mackie)

Which Mackie Mic Is The Best Podcast Microphone For You? (Mackie)

Mackie Mixer Rundown: ProFX Series Mixers (Mackie)

The Vera Project Reopens Iconic DIY Venue Black Lodge With Help From Mackie (Mackie)

Composer Jeff Rona Built a Surprisingly Compact Dolby ATMOS Studio With Mackie (Mackie)

10 Ways Mackie Set a New Industry Standard With SRM V-Class Loudspeakers (Mackie)

How Mackie SRM V-Class PA Speakers Take Studio Sound to the Stage (Mackie)

Things to Do in Sydney: Artist Atlas feat. Salarymen and Casa Rosa (Mackie)

SRM V-Class: Making Speakers More Intelligent With Advanced Impulse DSP (Mackie)

Things to Do in Barcelona: Artist Atlas feat. Teana (Mackie)

11 Things You Can Connect to CR Studio Monitors (Mackie)

Things to Do in Seattle: Artist Atlas feat. Tinsley (Mackie)

Press releases

Mackie ShowBox

Mackie MainStream

Mackie MobileMix

Mackie DLZ XS

Mackie ProFXv3+ Series


Satire

The Hard Times

I have contributed many articles to the satire publication The Hard Times, including several that appeared in The Hard Times: The First 40 Years. You can find all my articles for The Hard Times on my author page.

Hard Drive

After years as a contributor to The Hard Times, I became an editor at the sister publication Hard Drive, which focuses on video games and nerd culture. I worked with a core group of editors to grow Hard Drive to rival the size of The Hard Times, helping to build an audience and voice for the site. Here’s my author page for Hard Drive.

Ace Watkins

As part of the Hard Drive editorial team, I co-created the satirical gamer presidential candidate Ace Watkins. The campaign began as a Twitter account, but grew to include a podcast and live events. The campaign was covered by many publications, including GameSpot, Newsweek, Forbes and Know Your Meme.


Creative Writing

Fiction

“Book Drop Mysteries” — Three to Four Ounces, 2011.

“Hope Mine” — Hair Trigger, 2013.

“A Big Red Jumble of Lines” — Chicago Quarterly Review, 2013.

“Thrill House” — Chicago Literati, 2014.

Where the Bees Are Going” — One Story, 2016. See interview.

Screenwriting

Dry America


Video

I filmed and edited this series of videos for AEA Ribbon Microphones, showing off their factory and manufacturing processes.

Grilles

Transformers (Part 1)

Walkthrough

Transformers (Part 2)

R&D

Walkthrough

Ribbons

Parts