Douglas Grant -  LowNoise Productions

Douglas Grant has worked in various aspects of the entertainment industry for over 30 years, starting out in radio broadcasting. He was a programmer / announcer at a number of stations in Arizona and Vermont including KWFM and KUAT, Tucson, and WNCS, Montpelier, where he was production manager and an on-air personality in the station's early years from 1977 to 1981.

After a 3 year stint in microcomputer service and support, Douglas pursued work in the recording industry, and was employed for five years by White Crow Audio, a luxury 48-track Studer / Neve studio serving major record labels including Geffen, Atlantic and Warner Brothers. There he served as general manager, producer, engineer, musician, arranger, editor, and technician (amongst other roles). He also directed a small record label and music publishing company and ran the cassette duplication facility.

Since 1991, Douglas Grant has worked in film, television and video production, in various capacities including location sound. He has provided event and production support and coordination, and in 1993 was Assistant Director of the Vermont International Film Festival.

Douglas became involved in 1984 with the Atlantic Theater Company (ATC) of New York, working on many shows in NYC and Vermont, mainly radio theater. Projects with ATC included engineering Intrigue on the Air! , a Broadway show which was broadcast live over WBAI Radio, starring Treat Williams, Helen Hunt, Giancarlo Esposito, Felicity Huffman and Kristen Johnston, and working as Sound Designer for J.B. Priestley's Dangerous Corner, directed by David Mamet.

In 1994 he helped to shape and launch WEXP Experience 105.1, a kind of neo-progressive FM radio station which played an eclectic mix of adult music. Douglas helped to build the studios, which included the Enco / DAD computer-based record/play system, trained staff in its use, and continued on as an audio producer of various projects including the Planet Waves eco-series.

In the fall of 1995, Douglas joined the crew which built the new broadcasting facilities of Vermont Public Radio (VPR) in Colchester, and subsequently in Norwich, and provided VPR with ongoing broadcast and recording engineering services. Live and recorded sessions included string quartets, Jazz vocalists and groups, and a series of live broadcasts of the 17-piece Vermont Jazz Ensemble.

Another project was the launch of VPR's World Channel, an automated service of International radio programming, carried by WWPV, the St. Michael's College station. As with automation overnights on VPR, unattended operation was handled by Broadcast Electronics' AudioVAULT, which Douglas wired and set-up, programmed and maintained.

In 1999 he relocated to New Mexico, for a two-year hitch as Production Co-Director and Broadcast Engineer at KUNM in Albuquerque, and as recording engineer and editor of an educational radio series called Boombox Classroom. The first show, Rhythm, won a 2002 Golden Reel Award for a National / Musical Entertainment series, the highest honor bestowed by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. Douglas now resides in Tucson, Arizona.

LowNoise Productions invites producers to outsource pre-production audio for correction and polishing. Please visit http://www.lownoiserecords.com/lownoise-records-services.html for more information.

Douglas Grant is available for Voice Over and Narration, and is well-versed in the public radio stylebook. A most recent VO sample can be heard at the start and finish of "Now He's 64: A Paul McCartney Appreciation."

In Association with Paul Ingles - Cedar Creek Studios Productions