Sounddogs

Well, to tell you the truth, it kind of came out of necessity.

Um, I started in Toronto in 1986 and founded a company called Sound Dogs and then sounddogs.com. And we were just making the transition from film to tape.

On tape, we had 21 channels, 22 channels, and on that, all your backgrounds and all your sound effects and everything had to go on there and fit on that, on those 22 channels.

We had to bounce things down.

You heard John Koons as the narrator, Christopher Reiling as David, Philip Hobby as Matt, Rowan Hoyt as the girl, Rob Hoyt as the father, Gabriel Whitman as the boy, and Stacey Ann Strang as the mother.

This production was recorded on location in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, and featured live effects recorded in the field and supplemental effects from SoundDogs.com and original music by Stu Mahon.

Special thanks to Peter and Marge Titcomb for use of their location, to WMPG for their broadcast resources, and to Roger Gregg, David Shin, Richard Fish, and the many instructors at the National Audio Theatre Festival for their kind and productive guidance.

And that was Dark Passenger, one of my first forays into field-recorded audio drama, a production method that leads in a somewhat jagged, bloody line to my working on Lock and Key for Audible, and then from there to the terrifying tales I bring to you today here on Undertow.