Sounddogs
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| Available in | English, Support for Spanish, Portuguese |
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| Headquarters |
4712 Admiralty Way # 497 Marina Del Rey, California, USA |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | Rob Nokes |
| Website | www |
| Launched | May 1, 1997 |
| Current status | Active |
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 he first and largest online sound effects and production music library on the Internet launched in May 1997. As of 2016[update], 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.
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. (King, Grieve) and Sounddogs.com (Nokes) 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; King SoundWorks (formally known as SoundDogs USA, owned by Greg King and SoundDogs Canada, owned by Nelson Ferreira.
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