Barry has a professional manner that comes across no matter how he is helping you. During the course of my degree I required his help on many occasions and I felt safe in the knowledge that the advice and supervision was the best that I could ask for.
Barry explains things in such a way that you have no choice but to understand and enjoy the learning experience. Barry is professional, meticulous about detail, patient and precise and is an easy person to learn from.

Sophie Shane
Post Graduate, Sociology and Criminology, Kingston University

We enjoyed Barry and Cristina Burns working with us to provide a photo record of our guest hospitality at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in June 2009. They blended in exceptionally well and showed patience, great professionalism and care and delivered a set of very useful, interesting shots, technically very high quality, which perfectly met the rather subtle message brief.
I can assure the reader that this is rare with event photographers.
Barry has provided helpful advice over the phone on creating presentations, photo manipulation and various issues with using Apple Macs. He is obviously extremely knowledgeable, dedicated and a great communicator. Useful people to know. Try them.

Janice Minton
The Minton Event Consultancy

'I would like to thank you for your contribution yesterday. The feedback from the students for your session has been very good. They particularly commented on how enthusiastic you were about areas and how you made the sessions interesting. There were many students who wished they'd had the confidence to have mock interviews after the feedback from those who did.'

Nicky Hood
Assistant Head Teacher, Mildenhall College of Technology

'I have received some great feedback from the school and students on your workshops. So once again, thank you so very much for helping out - it is very much appreciated.'

Tracey Robertson
Suffolk Education Business Partnership

'Just a quick message to say thank you so much for all your help. Your one-to-one start up tutorial was very precise and factual which was taught in a calm and relaxing manner. Your expertise has enabled me to be confident and your additional Mac tips will definitely help me at University.
It's great to find some one who will also be available to me should I require further advice. I'm well on the way to being an avid Mac user. Thanks once again.'

Josh Levy
Media Studies Student, De Montford University, Leicester

'Barry Burns has been one of the most enthusiastic and supportive people I have met through my work with Hachfest. (Three day charity music event festival).
We engaged with Felixstowe and Deben Radio to help strengthen the festival's community ties and to see how we could all work together.
Barry has been professional throughout, and unbelievably organised, prepared and calm !
In preparation for the event he coordinated a full team of volunteers, even enough to lend me a few! - and arrived ready for anything.
Throughout the weekend Barry's team carried out the majority of comparing and were extremely easy to work with. We have had a number of comments congratulating us on the quality of this year's compares.
Alongside that, the team were recording, videoing and photographing the event, as well as interviewing performers.
Everything ran very smoothly and professionally, and once we had agreed how things would work I was able to leave everything in Barry's hands.
In recent weeks he has helped with post-event PR and feedback also.
Throughout, Barry and his team, have all been extremely friendly and approachable, and have really made an effort to fully embrace the work that Hachfest does, and the spirit of the event.
I have no doubts I could rely on him thoroughly. I very much thank him for everything he had done this year, and look forward to working with him again on next year's event.
I would have no hesitation recommending Barry and all the team at Deben Radio to others.'

Faye Skinner
Madam Chair Person and PR for Hachfest Event

I first met Barry Burns at a music festival where he taught me a number of things in relation to interviewing, recording and presenting. He demonstrated clearly the process of mixing and recording live music and gave me the opportunity to try out my own skills. Barry discussed various presentation skills and tips and coached me through the experience of audience interaction on stage.
I learnt the importance of preparation and having knowledge of your subject in presentation work. Throughout this experience Barry was reassuring and helped build my confidence.
On three follow up sessions I have learnt many other skills under Barry’s careful tuition.
He takes time to explain technical information so that it is easily understood. I am very pleased to have learnt practical skills on a Denon mixer DN-X1500 and Denon CD players DN-S5000 which was connected up to a Mac computer. He also patiently showed me the hardware part of the equipment for radio designed by
Avid Technology.
Barry taught me many other important skills for the radio including; how to add subtle effects to music, the importance of levels, PFL and cross-fade. This is relevant for broadcasting live on radio or alternatively at an open air event. In addition I was able to experiment with cueing in songs during a live show and panning the music onto different speakers.
Barry taught these skills in a very thorough and well planned way so that I did not become confused, even though we covered a substantial amount of work in a very short space of time. I am very grateful indeed and am looking forward to the next session.

Yasmine Permaul
Student at Colchester Sixth Form College

'Having worked with Barry on many occasions with editing audio, commentary programmes and supporting outside events, I have found his wealth of technical experience and creativity to be invaluable.
That, coupled with his patience, user friendly guidance and infectious enthusiasm, has enabled me to obtain a clear understanding of what is required to produce a polished professional community radio programme.'

Annabel Barry
Hypnotherapist Practitioner

Suffolk Mac User Group cannot survive without the involvement of philanthropic members. Since joining our society Barry has proven himeself to be an excellent communicator, always happy to share his knowledge with others. He is keen to learn, and happy to teach, a perfect combination.
His contribution and enthusiasm at meetings are much appreciated by all, and we look forward to sharing more time with him in the future.

Mike Kwasniak
Suffolk Mac User Group