DICK ABBOTT

Dick Abbott began his recording career at Vancouver’s CKNW radio in 1951.
 
During his tenure at the station, CKNW formed a business partnership with Griffiths, Gibson & Ramsay Productions (GGRP). In the 1970’s Dick joined the GGRP business venture at Little Mountain Sound (LMS) as Production Manager of CKNW’s Western Productions, their internal production company.

While at LMS Dick began to work with Roger Monk, the studio’s Chief Engineer.

CKNW became sole owners of LMS in 1981.  Dick moved into the role of CKNW’s Production Supervisor as well as helping engineer the commercial side of LMS.

In 1990 Dick joined Roger when he built Dick & Roger’s Sound Studios.

Mr. Abbott was the recipient of numerous IBA, Mobius, Clio, Lotus, & Golden Quill awards. He has worked on campaigns for major clients such as British Airways, CP Air, Chevron,  Buick, Pontiac & Ford Motor Companies, Eastman Kodak as well as Coca-Cola, just  to name a few.

Dick has worked on hundreds of multi-media shows, including numerous Pavilions during Expo 86; Canada’s Pavilion & The Yukon Pavilion & the Panama Pavilion in Spain. Engineered and mixed “The Legends of Hockey” and “The Legends of Hockey - The Second Season”, which was the Wayne Gretzky vignette and display for the Hockey Hall of Fame for TSN.

Dick has also enjoyed working for many years with Envisioning & Storytelling and the many multi-image shows they have produced such as their work with Intrawest.

ROGER MONK

Roger Monk started his career in audio in 1971 as a staff engineer at Eastern Sound Toronto.

Eastern Sound was the first 24-track studio in Canada, which specialized in corporate and domestic music recording with artists like Anne Murray and Gordon Lightfoot. It was at this time that he developed a specific interest in surround sound recording and mixing for the then newly developed IMAX projection and sound system.

1974 brought Roger to Vancouver, Canada. He was hired as chief engineer at Little Mountain Sound Studios and he remained there for 17 years. Roger’s forte during this time was in recording ‘middle of the road’ big band and orchestral music. He was an early pioneer in locking ¾ inch video tape with multi track audio machines in 1984. In 1987 he was a leader in recording, editing and manipulating audio on the first ever made hard disk based, digital audio workstations.

Since 1990 "Dick & Roger's Sound Studios” has been a leader in the digital post-production studio market place. With focus serving the corporate, television and motion picture industries, he has recorded in excess of 35 motion picture & television film scores, and his studios have delivered hundreds of hours of broadcast and direct-to-DVD products.

Mr. Monk has recorded practically all types of music; everything from country & western to big band, bag pipe bands to choral groups, rock & roll to large orchestras. He has produced thousands of corporate and promotional projects, exhibitions, theatre, television and stage shows and dozens of orchestral scores for motion pictures. Over his 37 years in the industry he’s received many awards & accolades. He is an active member of the Cinema Audio Society.