About me

I provide recording, sound design, editing and mixing services for film and television production. I record field sound (dialogue , effects and music), studio sound (again dialogue, effects and music) dialogue edit, repair and restore, sweeten, foley, music edit, score, mix and master.

My involvement with sound spans the era of analogue tape and vinyl to today’s fully digital workflow and am comfortable working in a hybrid analogue-digital studio or fully inside “the box”.

My film and television credits cover a multitude of in house productions for the ABC and independent film makers – some of which are listed on IMDB.

I started my career as an in house assistant engineer in 1984 at Adelaide Recording Studios, a jingle writing and music recording studio situated in Moger Lane, Adelaide working for Quentin Eyers and Les Kaczmarek.

I left there after being the chief engineer and worked at the Convention Centre and then at SAS Channel 7 at Gilberton on a number of productions including Fat Cat and Friends, Trax, Anne Wills’ Movie Scene, live to air programs 7 Nightly News and A Touch of Elegance, promotions and outside broadcasts.

I started working in ABC radio in 1990 where I worked on orchestral and music recordings, live radio and outside broadcasts, drama and in an editorial role in ABC Local Radio.

I worked in ABC Television from 2000 until mid 2019 in which time I recorded, edited and mixed such programs as ‘Beat The Chef’, ‘The Cook And The Chef’, ‘Poh’s Kitchen’, documentary television ‘Salinity’, ‘George Negus Presents’ and ‘Talking Heads’, game shows such as ‘Pick Your Face’, live broadcasts ‘Q+A’, ‘Australia Talks’, ‘Anzac Day Dawn Service and March’, ‘SANFL Match of The Day’, ‘The Art Show’, ‘ABC News’, ‘7:30 report’, ‘Australia Votes’, ‘Australian Story’, ‘Four Corners’, ‘Behind The New’s, and ‘Landline’.

I sound designed edited and mixed ‘The Lost Tools Of Henry Hoke’, ‘Damn Right I’m A Cowboy’, ‘Little Bang’s New Eye’, ‘Helping Hand: Unspoken Truths’, and was recently boom swinger for the ‘RAA: Keep on Moving’ campaign and sound recordist on the film ‘Damage’ and ‘The Road To Glory’ on Amazon Prime.

I am based at SodyPop Studios in Norwood and have a home 7.1 Surround edit and mix room with calibrated monitoring capable of mastering precision.

With a career spanning 39 years as a sound engineer including 30 years at the ABC and a background in music composition, performance and recording I’m focussed on working with creative people in their quest to connect with their audience.

If you’d like to know more about my music production, recording, mixing and mastering services please visit my web page The Recording Studio Guy.

Please feel free to get in touch. I am happy to talk through projects, ideas, industry issues, sharing information and passing on knowledge and above all assisting others in the industry looking for direction in regards to sound and sound recording.

Martin Davies