"My aim in using in-ear monitors is to give the artist the best possible environment to perform in."
Moto Yamasaki – Senior Executive, MSI Japan
Moto Yamasaki’s career spans the full arc of modern live sound — from hands-on monitor engineering to global stewardship of professional audio systems. Beginning as a monitor engineer in high-pressure live environments, Moto built his reputation where trust matters most: on stage, in real time, with no margin for error.
Through his long tenure with MSI Japan and his leadership at MJ Sound Entertainment in the United States, Moto helped shape how elite engineers are trained, deployed, and supported across borders. His work has quietly influenced countless tours and productions, not through visibility, but through consistency — ensuring that artists and engineers could rely on systems that performed the same way, night after night, in any market.
In Can I Get A Little More Me, Moto offers a rare perspective from inside the connective tissue of the industry. He speaks not as a spokesperson, but as a steward — someone responsible for translating technology into practice, and practice into trust. His experience bridges Japanese precision, global scale, and the lived reality of engineers working under pressure.
Moto’s voice grounds the story beyond products or brands. His insights reveal how in-ear monitors became more than a technical upgrade — they became a shared language between performers, engineers, and the systems that support them.