Audio post-production
The best sound is the one you never notice.
We work until nothing sticks out, until your audience hears only the story. Dialogue editing, restoration, sound design, foley and mixing in stereo, 5.1 or ambisonic.
Not shot yet? We record location sound too: sound recording
Acoustics by John H. Brandt (2018)
PSI Audio monitoring (L-C-R-Ls-Rs) and Transparence (LFE)
Delivered over a hundred virtual reality capsules
Delivery to web, TV and cinema specAQTIS 514 IATSE member
What we do
Six stages, together or on their own
Some projects only need sound mixing, while others require major restoration or ambient sound to immerse you in the narrative world. We have everything you need and the expertise to handle your project.
Dialogue editing
Choosing the best takes, replacing the ones that do not hold, cleaning, and preparing the material for the mix. The invisible work everything else depends on.
Audio restoration
Ventilation, room reverberation, clothing rustle, crackle. We attenuate, we rebalance, we make the words clear again. Often the difference between a shot kept and a shot cut.
Sound design and foley
Building the environment that makes a scene believable, or that carries an emotion. Foley recorded, ambiences edited, effects created. With the music, not against it.
Stereo and 5.1 mixing
Dialogue, ambiences, effects and music put back in their place: level, space, dynamics, pace. Stereo for the web, 5.1 for TV and cinema, in the same room without repatching.
Ambisonic mixing, VR and 360°
In virtual reality, sound tells you where to look. Spatialisation is not decoration, it carries the experience. Over a hundred capsules delivered: virtual reality, augmented reality, 360° video.
Audio repair and synthesis
Fixing a misspoken word, extending a line, rebuilding what is missing. AI tools now make possible what used to mean a trip back to the studio. We use them when they serve the film, and we tell you when we have.
What you get
Files that meet industry standards
A broadcaster rejects a delivery on a specification, not on an impression. Here is what leaves this room.
- Final mix — stereo, 5.1 or ambisonic B-format
- Separate stems — dialogue, music, effects, on request
- M&E version — for dubbing, on request
- Compliant levels — (TV, Web, Cinema)
- Archived sessions
How it works
From picture locked to delivered file
You send the edit
Send your picture locked files through our upload page. We listen before we quote.
We quote and we date
A price, a deadline, and what is included. If a take cannot be saved, we say so at this stage, not at delivery.
V1 and your notes
You get a first version to listen to. Your notes come back, we do the revision.
Delivery
Files in the formats you asked for, the stems, the report, and the session archived for whatever comes next.
What people say
People who come back
"More than a great experience for the sound design of my film. From A to Z it was a pleasure to work with Matthieu and Mélodie. The location sound on my short film was not excellent, and yet when 1KHZ sent the V1 I already felt I was hearing a big-budget film, where everything sits level and balanced."
Kevin Champagne LessardDirector, television
"Music, recording, sound design, mixing: everything is possible, creatively and technically, all in the same place. Always a pleasure to work with them."
Rémi FréchetteDirector, Caméra Chaos
Questions
What people ask
My location sound is bad. Can it be saved?
Often yes and we tell you before we start, not after. Send one minute of the worst of it: we listen and answer honestly. Ventilation, reverberation and steady background noise respond well. A voice buried under another voice, much less. That call is made by listening, not on the phone.
Do you work remotely?
Yes. Files arrive through our upload page, versions go back by link, notes come in writing or over video. The room stays open if you want to attend the mix: it is faster for the fine decisions to complete the project.
Let us hear your project
Send the edit, or just one minute of the passage you are worried about. We come back with a price, a deadline and an honest opinion.
(514) 296-8977
1KHZ is a sound post-production studio in Rosemère and the workshop where Wave Copilot, Wave Merge and Video Audio Replacer were born.