Doug's Bio

Doug's musical career began when he bailed out of his University of Toronto Engineering course in the early 70's and headed to Kitchener-Waterloo Ontario. Here he honed his musical skills teaching guitar, performing, and co-founding one of the area's first venues showcasing the burgeoning folk scene, a cafe' called "The Euphoric Tearoom" (name reflected the time!) Many of the continent's most famous folk performers paused here enroute to Toronto and bigger stages.

By the mid seventies, he developed an affinity for the recording process and became a regular in local studios both as a musician and technician. Eventually he was offered a full-time position as a recording engineer at a Kitchener production facility that was also a film and video studio. Doing double duty on technical work for both music and audio-visual projects provided experience that later proved useful as the music business overlapped with television. He also fostered many contacts with recording and performing artists that brought him steady free-lance work as accompanist both on stage and in the studio. Creating sound-tracks for video productions at this facility made use of his compositional and instrumental skills and his technical abilities led to steady work with the local CTV affiliate where he crewed on hundreds of television productions in various capacities.

Eventually, regular recording collaboration with a like-minded musician of overlapping talents, J.R. 'Rick' Hutt, led to the formation of a music production company that became known for creative musical ideas and excellent audio quality. Their company soon found itself outgrowing its offices and eventually bought one of the area's more significant recording facilities - Cedartree Recording Studio. Under their stewardship the studio grew, equipped with the kinds of gear that musicians themselves love to 'toy' with and with the operators' reputation as musical talents themselves, the studio became the recording focus for many of the southern Ontario's accomplished professional artists and groups. The partners' accomplishments also included composition and recording of music for national television series, producing numerous top twenty singles, several gold records, and fostering the careers of a number of Canada's best-known musical acts.They also created one of the country's most successful showcase record labels, Spin Records, which distributed and produced CDs and music videos for many of the artists they produced.

Live mixing recording has also been one of his fortés with in-concert productions of jazz, classical, choir and rock to his credit as well as live production stage mixing for several television series and music festivals.

In 2002 Doug left the busy Ontario music scene for the beautiful Comox Valley area of Vancouver Island where he continues his involvement with music through his own production company, most recently producing albums for local favourites BigRedTruck, Helen Austin, Kevin Mitchell, The Sojourners, and Annie Handley

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