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Doug McClement
Doug McClement became interested in audio as a teenager, working in stereo stores and playing in bands around his home town of Kingston, Ontario. He set up Comfort Sound, a four track studio in his parents' basement in 1973, recording demos for local bands and songwriters.
After graduating with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce from Queen's University in 1975, he moved to Toronto, where he worked as a computer programmer for TD bank during the day, while running a home studio at night and on weekends. By 1978, the studio was busy enough for Doug to quit the bank, expand to eight track and go full time into recording. He also started to get requests from studio clients to record their bands on location. After a couple of years of taking gear out of the studio for these remotes, he purchased a cube van to accommodate the expanding live recording business.
Throughout the eighties, Comfort Sound expanded from eight to twenty-four tracks, and changed its focus from
radio and records to music for television and film. Doug was hired by several television networks to engineer
remotes outside Canada, in places like Nigeria, Jamaica, Germany, Cyprus, Spain and Kuwait. A portable
multitrack system was designed specifically for shows outside the province. The remote side of the business grew to the point where Doug decided to sell Comfort Sound and go full time into live recording.
Doug set up LiveWire Remote Recorders in the summer of 1994, and has been doing location recording ever since, both with the truck, and with the portable airpack system. The system has expanded to 96 tracks.
Doug has been nominated eleven times for a Gemini Award for Best Sound in a TV Variety Program, and won Geminis in 2003 and 2010 for his mix of the Juno Awards. He has received platinum albums for engineering Blue Rodeo's 'Diamond Mine' and 'Five Days in July'; and 'Bargainville' for Moxy Fruvous. "Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King In Session", engineered by Doug, won the W.C. Handy Award from the Blues Foundation for Best Blues Album of 2000.
He also won an ADISQ award (Quebec Juno) for his mix of a Richard Seguin concert television special for MusicPlus.
Doug has been a member of the Audio Engineering Society since 1974. He is currently the Director of the Audio Production Program at The Harris Institute in Toronto, where he teaches one afternoon per week. Doug has also done guest lectures on remote recording at Harris' sister school, the University of West Scotland, as well as Fanshawe College in London, Ryerson University, The Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology (OIART) and the Recording Academy of Canada.
When not on location, Doug enjoys listening to Ry Cooder and Tom Waits, watching movies, reading, and watching baseball. He also plays bass for "It Ain't Pretty", a roots music band that his wife thinks should be named "We Be 40".
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Phil Hay
Phil is a native of Christchurch, New Zealand, and after graduating from Southern Institute of Technology in Invercargill, did studio recording and live sound for a variety of clients there before moving to Canada in 2002.
He has since worked in television as audio-post supervisor on the series "The Toronto Show" and "DoodleBops". When not on location with LiveWire, Phil is senior broadcast music mix engineer for MTV Canada.
Phil has also acted as LiveWire's Protools operator on many major remotes, including the Toronto Rocks for SARS, Live 8, Michael Bolton PBS Soundstage Special, Air Supply Live, The Lord of the Rings Symphony, and many others. Phil was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2010 for Best Sound in A Variety Special for his work on Michael Buble: Live at the Concert Hall for Bravo!
His combination of mixing, computer, live sound skills, and quirky Kiwi humour make him a valuable addition to the LiveWire.
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Gary Tompkins
Gary has been with LiveWire since 1997, and is our "inside man", responsible for interfacing our gear with the band's equipment, and placing audience mics, intercom, and our stage-view camera. Gary also our liason with the artist's stage crew. He says that being onstage with AC/DC and the Rolling Stones at the Downsview SARS Concert in 2003 is his most memorable LiveWire moment.
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