Gary McLaughlin is the owner and president of D.M.O. Productions, a digital recording and Post Production facility in Sherman Oaks, Ca. where Gary brings his many talents together. Here he produces, edits, and engineers projects of all kinds.
The invaluable quality that Gary brings to any team is his incredible ear for sound. Gary opened his first Recording Studio in 1984 and later assembled a digital studio for recording artist Jose Feliciano and performed engineering duties for him. He also played as a member in Feliciano's band. Gary has also produced albums for Gavin Christopher (songwriter for Chaka Khan's #1 hit "ONCE YOU GET STARTED"), and Buddy Miles (drummer for legendary artist Jimi Hendrix). As a songwriter, he has created source music for films and TV. Also a star percussionist and session conga player, Gary's sense of multi-level timing is absolutely mesmerizing.
Gary edited "THE BEST OF WARNER BROTHERS", a project combining thousands of clips of legendary WB films into a superb tapestry which is shown all over the world, and daily to the thousands of visitors who come from everywhere to take part in the WB Studio Tour. He recently spent several hundred hours perfecting the editing, sound effects, dialogue, and music for "TALES OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS" a full length animated musical headlined by Paige O'Hara (Belle in Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST") and featuring 61 top Hollywood and Broadway Stars.
Gary is now focusing much of his energy on the marriage of video and web design. He believes that most websites are "uninviting" and "overproduced" with too much information that seems to overwhelm most visitors. People are literally scared away from these sites, and with a single click, they beam the site back into cyberspace.
He believes that when a site first opens, each visitor should be greeted with an exciting video presentation portraying what your company is all about and visually pointing out the important points you wish to convey to them. Once you get their attention, they will be more apt to explore your site.
With his audio, video, lighting, and production skills, Gary is able to shoot these videos, edit them, add music, sound effects, titles and graphics, then design your website and upload all the elements to the net. It's a tight, cohesive package with everything working together to add that extra excitement to your site
Gary McLaughlin: Resume
Areas of Expertise:
1. Video Production With both SD (VX 2000) and HD (Sony Z7U 1080i), Gary has been involved in every type of shoot. From a single camera interview to a 5 camera HD shoot.
Gary has a Full Location Audio Kit including FP33 mixer, wireless and hardwired lavs, boom and shotgun mics.
2. Audio Production With a full 64 track Pro Tools Studio, Gary can handle the most complicated Sound Effects projects including ADR, Foley, VO’s and full Music production. Location audio is also a specialty of his. Whether a simple interview or a Feature length film, Gary has the equipment and the answer for any type of situation that may arise during production.
3. Editing Gary has over 15 years experience in the editing field. At Warner Brothers he experienced the transformation from tape editing to Non Linear editing
He has a Full Final Cut Pro HD studio with all the “bells and whistles”.
He is proficient in After Effects, Photoshop, Motion, Live Type, Flash, Fireworks, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Compressor and Color correction.
4. Web design Using the latest versions of Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop and all the other tools in his studio, Gary is able to put together web sites that are state of the art, incorporating all his Video, Audio and Editing skills to build professional and inovative web sites that stand out among the rest.
5. Work History
1979-1984 Worked as a musician playing Percussion for acts such as Zephyr from Boulder Co., Buddy Miles, Jose Felliciano, The Supremes, The Brothers Johnson, Glen Fry and The Temptations.
1984-1993 Started DMO Productions which was a studio complex that handled everything from Sound effects, Foley, ADR, Video editing, to full CD music production.
1994-1997 DMO Productions moved its studios onto the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank, CA. There Gary was in charge of Audio/Video Postproduction for Kellahin Productions, where he worked on projects of all kinds, including “The Best of Warner Brothers” which is a film that is shown every day to all the visitors attending the Warner Bros. studios tour.
1997-1999 Re-opened DMO Productions at a new location off the lot, also in Burbank. Music Production and Sound for film were the major functions of this studio.
2000-2003 Along with running DMO, Gary started working for Pacific Satellite Services Inc. in Los Angeles. Here he honed his Location Audio skills. He also began working closely with high level cameramen. From them, he learned the fine art of guerilla shooting working on every type of event from Hollywood Movie Premiers to interviewing the CEO of Disney to the red carpet at the Oscars and even wiring up the President whenever he came to town.
At this point he began acquiring all the equipment he would need to handle his own Productions, including Cameras, Lights, Green Screen and Location Audio gear,
2004-Present He got tired of calling his web designer for simple changes to his web site, so he began taking courses in Web Design programs including: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, After Effects, Flash, Fireworks, Illistrator and the whole Final Cut Pro HD suite. He can now handle any project from start to finish and then complete it by launching it to the Web.
