Trackdown Digital
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Trackdown Digital is an independent Australian audio post and music services facility for the film, television, music, and multimedia industries.
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- Simon Leadley
- Geoff Watson
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| Industry | Audio post, Music production |
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| Founded | 1984 |
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| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | Camperdown, Moore Park, South Melbourne |
| Services | audio post, recording and music services |
| Website | www |
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 Leadley 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'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 collaboration 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