User:Gregory King - Sound Designer

Gregory King is the owner and head Sound Designer at King SoundWorks, a Los Angeles based Sound Design and Mixing company. He has been the Sound Designer and/or mixer on over 70 films including Battleship, Machine Gun Preacher, Hancock, The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights and The Insider which received an Oscar nomination in 1999 for Best Sound. He has worked with prominent filmmakers such as Peter Berg, Michael Mann, Marc Forster and Steven Spielberg.

Greg started as an apprentice for Alban Streeter and Nolan Roberts in 1986 at age 19. This was at the time when sound for film was making the transition from traditional sprocket film to more modern formats, such as multi track recorders and synchronizers. This is when Greg started to experiment with digital samplers and sequencers, which up to this time were used almost exclusively for music, and started to use them for sound design and editing. By 1991 he was completing entire soundtracks for film and television using samplers and digital workstations exclusively, many years before this became standard practice. In 1991 he co-founded Sound Dogs,Inc with Nelson Ferreira. Sound Dogs became the most prolific Sound Design firm in Canada.

In 1994, Greg came to Los Angeles to create the sound design for Walt Disney’s hit film, The Santa Clause. It was his intention to return back to Canada after completing the film, but demand for his expertise in the emerging world of digital sound and his unique creative vision led to numerous film offers that resulted in him relocating to Los Angeles permanently. In 1994, he co-founded Sound Dogs, Inc. Los Angeles with sound designers, Robert Grieve and Robert Nokes. In 1996 the trio founded Sounddogs.com which is now the world’s largest provider of online sound effects.

In 2010 Greg ceased using the name Sound Dogs, Inc. in favor of King SoundWorks for his sound design and mixing operation to avoid confusion with Sounddogs.com which had become a worldwide presence.

Appreciative of the time that Alban Streeter and Nolan Roberts spent mentoring him during his apprenticeship, Greg has created the same environment at King SoundWorks mentoring and developing the skills of up and coming sound designers and mixers. Since the start of Sound Dogs Inc. in 1991, over 100 sound designers and mixers have served their apprenticeship with his various firms.