Profile of David Greene
Director of Music, Magnetic Music, Toronto
by Anne Reynolds
David Greene was born in New York City in 1940. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of New York and Columbia University.
He began his professional recording career in 1961 at Edgewood Recording Studios, Washington D.C. as a recording engineer and maintenance technician. In 1964*, he went to work for the MGM Records division of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, Inc. in New York City as senior recording engineer. While at MGM, he engineered many successful recordings with a wide range of artists including The Animals and Connie Frances. He also engineered many Motion Picture Soundtrack albums including Born Free and Dr. Zhivago.
In 1966, he joined the staff of A & R Recording Inc. in New York City as a senior recording and studio design engineer. During his tenure there, he worked on a wide variety of recordings artists such as Elton John, Burton Cummings and The Guess Who, Paul McCartney and Wings and Burt Bachrach. He was also a part of the middle management team that designed and built A & R into a seven studio, 24 hour operation.
Also in 1966 together with Phil Ramone, he founded the Recording Workshop Course at Eastman School of Music division of the University of Rochester and remained on the faculty for many years.
Greene was also very involved in the AES over the years and was in fact invited to the first general assembly of the Toronto Chapter in 1968.
In 1971, he joined the staff of Manta Sound Studios in Toronto as Chief Engineer during the construction phase of the project. In addition to his duties as an engineer, he helped establish many of the operation systems both technical and operational, most of which are still in use today.
In 1973, he formed Unlimited Productions Ltd., an independent music/audio production and technical consulting service. In addition to record production and engineering with artists as Paul Simon and Chuck Magione, he has also produced audio for various television videodisc products such as the Broadway show Pippin directed by Bob Fosse, and a concert series with The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta conductor for Pioneer Video Discs, and Dolly In London with Dolly Parton for HBO.
Between 1984 and 1990, he focused Unlimited Productions in the direction of producing and/or sound design for film and television projects. Projects have ranged from morning cartoon series to major mini- series to feature films as well as Imax and 3D films for international Expo events. In January of 1991, Unlimited Productions became the basis for Magnetic Music, the music production wing of Magnetic Enterprises, which also consists of
Magnetic North, Magnetic Sound and Master's Workshop. With the addition of Magnetic Music, Magnetic Enterprise offers a truly full range of post production services.
* David was still at Edgewood (as an on-site engineer) at least until March 16 of 1965, when he engineered our recordings.
Source October 18, 1994 meeting of the AES Toronto Section will feature a presentation by Avid Technology Inc..
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