About US

My fascination with the world of sound started when I was about nine years old. I was having trouble reading at school and one of the teachers suggested to my parents that I should record myself reading and then listen to it and that that would improve my reading. I don't know where she got that idea but that's how I got my first cassette recorder and right away, I started recording all sorts of things together with my friends. Later on when I was a teenager, I was fascinated with loudspeakers, amplifiers, and cassette recorders--breaking them apart, trying to make them better, changing drivers, transistors, belts, heads, and so on. After finishing my practical engineering degree in electronics and computers, I started working as a roadie and from there moved on to equipment installation and electronic repair of sound systems. It was all fun but it was only when I landed in a TV station and started recording voice overs, mixing TV shows and cutting sound effects that I knew that I found what I really wanted to do.

My first real sound affects job was cutting the sound effects for the TV show, Xena, the Warrior Princess.  This was an unbelievable sound effects school for someone just starting with in the field.  To this day, I can't believe my boss actually had me work on such a complicated show as a beginner. It was very difficult but eventually I got the hang of it and from there I moved on to other TV shows like Special Unit Two, Deadwood (HBO), Rome (HBO), John from Cincinnati (HBO), Big Love (HBO) and many more (see the list at IMDB). As soon as I started sound effect editing. I bought myself a portable digital recorder and few mics and started recording things for almost every Episode I worked on. I always found the big commercial libraries and the libraries of the companies I worked for lackedso many things that recording things myself was the obvious thing to do.

At the end of 2010 I was offered to record Foley for two movies.  I knew I couldn’t record in my bedroom so I started building a professional recording studio.  It took three months of very hard work, but I am very happy with the results.

If you live in the Long Beach area and need Voice Over ADR, Foley, Sound Effects or Music Recording, give me a call at 562-852-1022.

David Mann