Master's Workshop
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Masters Workshop was a recording studio for Canadian contemporary Chritisn artists from 1975 to 1986. It was run by Doug McKenzie. Masters Workshop has been supplying big sound for the extra big screen since the early '80s and is now turning its attention to location-based entertainment. Around 20 years ago, when large-format films were still in their infancy, Masters got called on to handle the audio for Skyward, an imax film about flight. At the time, the Ontario Place Cinesphere was the only facility in Toronto housing six channels of audio, so the crew headed down to the large round building, ripped out a few rows of seats, set up the console, and did the mix right there in the theater. Masters was the first to do an imax mix inside an imax theater, and in 1986 unveiled the first imax mix theater which allowed them to mix in-house with the same results they got at the Cinesphere. The audio shop was founded some 27 years ago by Doug McKenzie. It was later purchased by Maclean Hunter, which was taken over by Rogers Communications, and in December 1997, went full circle when McKenzie and creative director Tim Archer took back the reins of the shop. McKenzie is spearheading digital tv efforts through The Advanced Media Group, a company he established a few years ago to facilitate the development of Canadian digital television. The plan is for Masters to migrate into the amg center. While the bulk of business at Masters comes from large-format producers, the facility provides sound consultation and design, recording and editing, automated dialogue replacement and narration, foley recording and editing, music composition and recording, final mix, and foreign-language versioning for features, music recordings and, increasingly, for location-based entertainment. Source: http://www.playbackmag.com/articles/magazine/19990419/25238.html
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