Unfortunately I had to closed this superb sound suite at Pinewood Film Studios. The audio post production has become extremely tough in the last few years. With the industry working with lower budgets, a move away from the ‘factual’ TV that I loved and the constant struggle to bring TV clients ‘out to the country’, at Pinewood, I’ve made the difficult decision and closed my sound suite.
After 6 years at Pinewood working with OutPost Facilities and about 8 years at Ace Editing in NW London, I’ve enjoyed working on many interesting programmes and now look forward to yet another change in direction in my varied career.
Sound for TV has been my life since I started at Anglia Television back in 1966 and since then I’ve had some great years working for Thames TV, London Weekend TV, initially at Wembley and then The South Bank, Barcud in Wales, TVS in Maidstone, and Limehouse Studios at Canary Wharf and I became their Head-of-Sound…. which took me back to Wembley again!
I freelanced, mixing at big (and small) TV studios and OB units in the 80′s and 90′s and finally ‘settled down’ to start my own facility at Ace and I finally moved it to Pinewood.
Running a sound facility ‘on your own’ is sometimes rather taxing so I’d like to take the opportunity to thank the all the Fairlight guys and particularly Gary Lamb, head of R&D, for all the help given to me during the last few years.
If you’ve been a client or a friend I look forward to seeing you again at sometime in the future.
Regards to all.
David