Sounddogs
Sounddogs.com, Inc. is a commercial online library of sound effects based in Marina Del Rey, California, with offices in Canada, Argentina, and Uruguay. It is the first and largest online sound effects and production music library on the internet launched in May 1997., 708,636 sound effects and production music tracks are available for immediate download or on hard drive or CD. Downloads are available in AIFF, WAV, and MP3 formats. Sounddogs started as a sound design and editorial company in 1990 and has contributed to more than 150 feature films and earned multiple awards and nominations from the BAFTA Award, Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Reel Awards. As of 2022, there are over 1 million sound files of sound effects and production music.
Company history
In 1990, Gregory King and Nelson Ferrera formed the original Sound Dogs Inc. as a sound editorial company in Toronto, Canada. In 1991, Robert Nokes was appointed as an assistant of King.In 1995 Greg King moved to Los Angeles along with Rob Nokes. Paul Huntsman of Todd-AO introduced them to Robert Grieve, who six years earlier had declined to become a founding partner of Soundelux. Together they formed "Sound Dogs USA" in Los Angeles, California. After a year, they launched Sounddogs.com on May 1, 1997, a large online sound effects archive as a marketing tool with Picture Editors. In 1998 they received invitation for a meeting with Kleiner Perkins, a Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm. They later worked with giant companies like Apple, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Avid Technology, and Digital River. Around 1999, Nelson Ferreira partnered with Stephen Barden at Sound Dogs Toronto. In late 2001, Sound Dogs Inc. and Sounddogs.com split amicably and remain close working partners. Sound Dogs New York was started by Stephen Barden around 2005. In the late 2000s King formed a sound design firm called The Dawgs Sound Design, which later became King SoundWorks. Currently, there are three separately owned Sounddogs companies: Sounddogs.com, owned by Rob Nokes;, owned by Greg King and, owned by Nelson Ferreira.
On June 1, 2019, Sound Ideas purchased SoundDogs.com together with the entirety of the
sound effects library owned by Rob Nokes, Soundelux, SounDogs Library, and SoundStorm.
Content partners
Since 2001, the company signed co-distribution deal and partnerships with many sound designer and companies with a view to providing the best selection possible.Partners of SoundDogs include: Charles Maynes, Elliot Koretz, AMG, Bobby Mackston, Casablanca, Coll Anderson, Copra Studios, Craig Henighan, Dan O’Connell, Digiffects, The Hollywood Edge, Elements, Farts Dot Com, Hanna Barbera, Interplay, Nightingale Mobile, Nightingale Voice Box, Nokes Library, Point One Sound, Ripe, Rob Nokes Horse Racing Collection, Sonic Science, Sound Ideas SFX, Sound HOG, Sound Label, Sonospheres, SoundDogs, Soundminer, The Anarchist Cookbook, The Recordist, Tomahawk Films, Trak Works, Valentino, and Zak Sound.
Acquisition
In November 2004, Rob Nokes acquired the sound library and trademark of SoundStorm, a sound editorial company nominated for eight Academy Awards. SoundStorm's corporate predecessor was a company called Walla Works, which had employed the founding partners of Soundelux, another sound editorial company.On November 17, 2014, the Todd-Soundelux Trademarks and Copyrights were also acquired in Federal Bankruptcy Court by Rob Nokes of Sounddogs.com, Inc. Nokes purchased all of Todd-Soundelux's library assets and trademarks, which included The Hollywood Edge. In January 2020, Sound Ideas finished acquiring Sounddogs.com.
Staff
- Brian Nimens, President and CEO, Sound recordist
- Craig Nimens, Vice-President
- Rob Nokes, President and Founder, Sound recordist, Supervising sound editor
- Rob Nokes, Co-Founder, Supervising sound editor
- Gregory King, Co founder, Supervising sound editor
- Nelson Ferreira, Co founder, Supervising sound editor
- Robert Grieve, Supervising sound editor
- Craig Henighan, Supervising sound editor
- Stephen Barden, Supervising sound editor
- Yann Delpuech, Supervising sound editor
- Darren King, Supervising sound editor
- Paula Fairfield, Sound effect editor
- John Switzer, Former Vice president
- Paul Virostek, Former Vice president