Trackdown Digital
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, The Church and Dragon.In the late 1980s, the studio moved to Bondi Junction, to a couple of small rooms in the basement of Hutching's Keyboards 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, 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".
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