Northern Lights Expands Audio Division, Opens Storyk-Designed 5.1 Surround Sound Suite
Northern Lights recently opened a new 5.1 surround sound audio room, designed by John Storyk of the Walter Storyk Design Group. The suite represents a continuing expansion of Northern Lights’ audio division, which is currently home of sound mixer/designers and composers Ted Gannon and Damon Trotta.
Northern Lights' new WSDG-designed 5.1 audio mix suite
Business has been expanding for Northern Lights, which was formed in 1995 by co-owners David Gioiella and Mark Littman, and serves a diverse clientele including commercial, promo, show open and feature film work. With sound mixer/designer/composer Damon Trotta joining Northern Lights in ’09, the partners decided a high-end 5.1 mixing suite would position them for more technically demanding/higher profile work.
“I have wanted a John Storyk-designed room for as long as I’ve been in the business,” Trotta says. “David and Mark went the extra nine yards to make this studio as comfortable as possible.
We’re outfitted with Millennia mic pre’s, Neumann U89‘s, Empirical Labs Distressors, Dolby 160A, Focal 5.1 monitoring, Dorrough metering, Pro Tools HD and Logic Pro 9. Driving a top-of-line room definitely impacts on my creative thinking, And,” he adds, “our clients have been extremely complimentary. This investment will pay dividends for Northern Lights for years to come.”
With a staff of 25 editors and artists, Northern Lights designs, creates, edits, mixes and finishes a wide range of projects including commercial campaigns for brands such as General Mills, Wyeth, Pepperidge Farm, and Novartis, and promos and interstitials for clients like USA Network, Food Network, Nickelodeon, VH1, Versus, and BET. The firm’s Mr. Wonderful motion graphic division did the new show open for Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, and was in competition at the first-ever SXSW Festival Title Sequence category. Northen Lights offers three audio mixing studios, six editing suites, two Smoke suites and a Flame suite.
Northern Lights is located on W. 27th Street. For more information, visit http://www.nlpedit.com/