Post Production in the Heart of Midtown Toronto
A Full Service Post Audio Facility
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Recording
Professionally designed audio booth with video playback, visual talent cueing system, Pro Tools HDX recording for low latency, sit stand desk, 27" monitor for long readings. U87Ai, MKH416, C414 ULS and other excellent mic choices including lavalier microphones. Read my thoughts about recording booths here
Sound Design
An expansive 155,000+ Sound Effects library along with cutting edge Soundminer V6 Pro software and a wide array of sound design tools. Read about my sound design philosophy here
Dialogue and ADR Editing
SpectraLayers Pro 12, dxRevive, and other restoration plugins and sound manipulation software, as well as Melodyne 5 Studio for complete repair needs, Read about my noise reduction approach here
Surround Sound Mixing
Award winning sound engineer with more than three decades of film, internet, advertising, music mixing and broadcast engineering experience. Trained by the best in the business. Read about how I deal with dialogue mixing here
Location Recording
High quality, up to 192 kHz, 32 bit floating point recorder used exclusively for sound effects collection and on site interview recording. Curious about floating point recording? Read my opinion here
Audio Examples (Click a logo for web links):
Studio by Damian Kearns
Reviews
“It’s the Taj Mahal of home studios.”
Ron Maclean, Host, Hockey Night in Canada
My Vision
More than 31 years in the audio business, at facilities large, small, and in between, has taught me everything about how studios make money and why they charge what they do. When I built this facility Therefore in 2013, I knew there was an unoccupied niche in post production.
What I set out to do was offer a place capable of doing the same kinds of work I’d done elsewhere, without the standard overhead associated with running a recording studio in a major urban centre. I started off with the gear, then, when I realized people were really interested in my business model, a professional control room and booth were constructed under my direction. That was 2015 and today, I’m really proud of how 217 Audio has worked out. All sorts of projects are brought here, sometimes from other countries, and everyone leaves happy. That's what really matters.
In recent years, I've taken my experiences and put them to print on production-expert.com and other websites and I've been continually working with major software developers to create or refine their products. An equal opportunity employer, I've also taken my immigrant's perspective and applied it faithfully, offering training and guidance to people across all walks of life, anywhere in the world. Some of my projects have been international in nature and I always welcome these new opportunities for collaboration and to make new contacts.
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