40
YEA
RS
METALWORKS
STUDIOS CELEBRATES
A MAJOR MILESTONE
BY ANDREW KING | PHOTOS BY DAVE DICKSON
Metalworks Studios
3611 Mavis Rd.
Mississauga, ON L5C 1T7
905-279-4000
[email protected]
www.metalworksstudios.com
26 • PROFESSIONAL SOUND
Celebrating the 40 th anniversary of a successful
business seems like an apt occasion to rem-
inisce about the past; however, Gil Moore is
much more interested in the future.
Moore is speaking with Professional Sound
just ahead of the date that, 40 years ago, found
him formally opening the sound company and
recording studio that would become Metal-
works Studios in the very same commercial
plaza in which he’s currently sitting. Over the
course of the next four decades, though, its
physical location is one of the few things to
remain unchanged.
In that time, Metalworks Studios has
grown to include nine individual workspaces
that combine sought-after vintage consoles
and equipment with modern systems and
workflows like few other large-scale studios
in the country. What’s more, the company has
also expanded at the seams with a production
technologies sales and rentals division, Metal-
works Production Group (MPG), and a music
performance, business, and technology career
college, Metalworks Institute (MWI), now oc-
cupying adjacent facilities in the aptly named
Metalworks Plaza, making for something of a
music technology hub serving the Greater To-
ronto Area and beyond.
And while 40 years of operations in a very
competitive and ever-evolving industry is no
small feat – one they share with only an elite
group of peers on the continent – Moore isn’t
overly interested by dwelling on past accolades
or accomplishments; he’s too busy working
towards some new ones.