Trackdown Digital

Trackdown
IndustryAudio post, Music production
Founded1984
FounderSimon Leadley and Geoff Watson
Headquarters
Sydney
,
Australia
Number of locations
Camperdown, Moore Park, Sth Melbourne
Servicesaudio post, recording and music services
Websitewww.trackdown.com.au

Trackdown Digital) is an independent Australian audio post and music services facility for the film, television, music, and multimedia industries.

History

Trackdown began as a rehearsal and 4-track recording business called "The Studio" in Oxford Street, Sydney. It was one of Sydney's first rehearsal/demo studios and clients included INXS, Midnight Oil, Divinyls, Do Re Mi,[1] The Church and Dragon.[2]

In the late 1980s, the studio moved to Bondi Junction,[3] to a couple of small rooms in the basement of Hutching's Keyboards[4] where Simon Leadly created Sydney's first half-inch 16-track recording studio using the Fostex B16. The business was renamed Trackdown and was the first studio to use Sony's PCM701 digital 2-track system for the final master. In 1990, Trackdown built a new studio complex in Camperdown within the Yoram Gross Studio building.

Trackdown Scoring Stage

Trackdown's Moore Park Studio, Building 125 (adjacent to Fox Studios), houses The Simon Leadley Scoring Stage, Mix one - Trackdown's 5.1 audio edit and music mixing suites – a Theatre, and production suites and offices for hire. In 2013 the services were expanded with the opening of Theatre One, in partnership with Definition Films, "a 20 seat theatrette with grading, audio post, mixing and 3D screening capabilities".[5]

People

  • Geoff Watson - Managing Director
  • Elaine Beckett - General Manager
  • Simon Leadley - Trackdown Director and Leading Australian Music & Sound Craftsman – In memory of
  • Tim Ryan - Supervising Music Editor
  • Craig Beckett - Music Editor and Engineer

References

  1. ^ "Discogs Music Database". discogs. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Soundclick inc. Music Community website". soundclick.
  3. ^ "Pioneering Australian Music Editor and Trackdown Digital Founder Simon Leadley Dies at 53". Film Music Magazine. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
  4. ^ "Artist- Anthony Lee history". Soundclick. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
  5. ^ "Jands - Trackdown Mixes It Up With JBL And Crown".