Jack Leahy

Audio/Video Systems Designer

San Francisco, California

USA
John Storyk
Beth Walters
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Romina Larregina
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MIAMI
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SAN FRANCISCO
Jack Leahy
LATIN AMERICA
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EUROPE
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BRASIL
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MEXICO
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Jack Leahy is somewhat of an institution in the San Francisco film and music industries. In the mid sixties he and two partners started up a graphics company, Funky Features, that produced posters and graphics, including work for the two eminent San Francisco ballrooms, the Fillmore and the Avalon. By 1969 he had morphed into a recording engineer, mixing and recording music in the famous Haight-Ashbury district for musicians such as Janice Joplin, Country Joe McDonald and Jimi Hendrix. In 1977 he co-founded Russian Hill Recording, a full-service recording studio and audio post-production complex for film and television. This project deepened Leahy's interest in the design of acoustic spaces. A second complex, Crescendo! Studios, designed with John Storyk followed in 1996.
 
In the 1980's Leahy began working on the soundtracks of feature films. He developed some of the first "small" rooms capable of mixing in surround sound formats that could accurately translate to large theatrical spaces.
 
While living in Marin County and drawing on his studio designing experiences, he built a video screening facility in his home where he could review sound mixes before going to the mixing stage. Friends and colleagues, on experiencing this early "Home Theatre", asked him to design for their homes. The Media Room became a formal business in 1991. It provides consultation, design, installation and project management services to hundreds of businesses and individuals seeking the highest quality in custom media and communications. Leahy and Storyk have been collaborating on many projects for years. He now joins the WSDG team, bringing his knowledge of what a studio should contain and his talent of being able to create innovative designs.


Favorites
Buildings:
Empire State Bldg
Golden Gate Bridge
Chartres Cathedral
Parthenon
Falling Water
Pont du Gard


Music:
Gerry Mulligan
Ry Cooder
Astor Piazzola
Ian Tyson
Johannes Brahms
Bob Dylan
Giacomo Puccini


Contact: jack@wsdg.com
 
 
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