Friday 1 March 2024

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David j Taylor is a multiple award winning sound professional/artist who has worked in the entertainment industry for 30 years. David is a 2007 Western Canadian Music Award Producer Of The Year award winner and multiple WCMA nominee with over 120 album credits as producer/engineer/mix-master (Joel Fafard, Geoff Berner, Megan Nash, Despistado). In audio post for Film/TV David is a 2012 Rosie Award Best Overall Sound Drama award winner and a 6 time Gemini Award (Canadian Screen Award) Best Overall Sound nominated re-recording mixer, music supervisor, foley/fx and sound designer. David was a 2018 Leo Award Best Sound Documentary nominee for Ageless Gardens (all audio post production), the foley recordist/artist for all 106 episodes of the hit comedy Corner Gas and foley recordist/editor for the 2012 Academy Award Best Animated Short Film nominee Wild life (National Film Board of Canada). With numerous television series and theatrical-documentary film credits to his name (The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, Landscape as Muse, renegadepress.com, Surveillance) David has worked in all aspects of post audio.


David is also a prolific singer-songwriter and performing artist with 15 album releases as a solo artist and with the musical groups Semko Fontaine Taylor (with Jay Semko of The Northern Pikes), Big Cookie, DSM and Generals and Majors (to hear his music click HERE) and is a highly prolific abstract painter with both group and gallery exhibitions to his credit (to see his paintings click HERE). David is also a sought after educator-consultant and mentor, having spoken at South By Southwest, The University of Saskatchewan, Breakout West (WCMAs), and as guest lecturer at Nimbus Recording School Vancouver, Harris Institute Toronto and for various provincial film and music industry associations.


David runs a boutique recording studio in New Westminster BC called The Purple Studio where he provides full audio post production, descriptive video/VO and music production and mix/mastering services.

"David's care for the song comes through in every project he touches." 

Joel Fafard - Juno Award nominated singer-songwriter. 


"David is a great musician and producer. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him many times. He's a musical and production genius in my opinion. I look forward to working on an album with him in the future. With Dave's ears and artistic sense, he will be mastering and producing great records for many years to come; a vital factor in Canadian music." 

Jay Semko - multiple Juno Award nominated singer-songwriter - The Northern Pikes


Clickable Links:

Sound Engineer: Producer/Mix/Master/Audio Post Full Credits

Recording Artist: Soundcloud Youtube Facebook Biography

Visual Artist: Abstract Paintings