Sound dogs or Sounddogs.com, Inc. is a well-known online library of sound effects. Conducting under the website, sound dogs gets all users the opportunity to make use of the royalty-free sound effects which are available freely on the net. Owned by Rob Nokes, this online library has been doing well since its venturing into the business way back in 1997.
Sound dogs is a Santa Monica( California) based company. It happens to be the world's first online and commercial library of sound effects and sound production. According to one survey of 2007, more than 320,000 music and sound tracks are provided by the company. All thse could be found in hard drive or in CD form. The user can even go for the option of downoading them in the following formats which include, WAV, MP3, WMA, and AU. November 2004 saw the aquisition of the Soundstorm libraray by the Sound dogs. SoundStorm has been a seven-time nominee and a winner of an Oscar in the Best Sound Editing category.
Sound dogs has an interesting history of its organization to offer. The company was actually started by Greg King and Nelson Ferreira in 1990. After five years, Nokes joined it as a business partner. At present, Sound dogs has three independent offices in three locations.Two of them are in USA. One is owned by Greg King while the other by Nokes. The third one is in Canada owned by Nelson Ferreira.
Sound dogs has busines ties with many companies that include AMG, Bobby Mackston, Casablanca, Coll Anderson, Point One Sound, Ripe, Serafine, The Anarchist Cookbook, Tomahwak Films, Trak Works, The Recordist, Valentino, Zak Sound, Farts Dot Com, Nightingale Voice Box, Sound Ideas SFX etc. These companies help the Sound dogs in getting, hosting and using sound effects. The Sounddogs.com keeps on traveling a lot in order to record original sounds to cater the increasing demands of the both customers and users.
Sound dogs has a great list of quality clients such as the editors of the flicks such as Underdog, Blue State, Gridiron Gang, The Shaddy Dog, Sin City, First Born, Million Dollar Babby, Dreamer, Dead or Alive, Glory Road, You Me and Dupree, Seabiscuit, etc. Some of its strategic partners include Microsoft Site Developers Network, Apple iMovie Sound Effects Provider, Advanced Media Group, Soundminer Software, Sonic Foundry Get Media Program, Avid Pronet,, Digidesign, Mix Magazine, Gallery Software etc.
Sound dogs has made tie up with many music companies and individuals such as Adventure Play Music, AKM Musi, Audio Network PLC, Big Dog Music Design, Cecilia Recordings, Crank City, Fresh Music and individuals such as Colin Willsher, Brian Slawson, Bjorn Lynne etc.
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