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Expaz Studios — control room, Dolby Atmos

sound & picture

Established in Montreal since 2005 — from set to final delivery. Location recording, foley, ADR, sound design, mix and Atmos delivery.

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Hundreds of projects since 2005 — film, television, music, and the hors-norme in between.

full-service audio · sound & picture

Set to screen. One team.

Established in Montreal since 2005, Expaz and its team offer a complete audio post-production service under one roof — from set to final delivery, with a single point of contact for all sound and music needs on a production.

Mix & Mastering — stereo to immersive like Atmos

In our fully calibrated Montreal mix room, for film, television, music, and web. Stereo, immersive and ambisonic through 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos — home entertainment, music, and cinema. Streaming and broadcaster delivery compliant. Mix and mastering available together or independently.

Dolby Atmos Ambisonic

ADR & voice-over

Dedicated ADR booth with script stand, reference monitor, and direct visual contact with the team through double glass. Serving film and television productions locally and abroad. Clients see the session from the control room or remotely.

Sound design

Original sound effects, atmospheres, and sonic textures built scene by scene to match picture — for Montreal independent productions, Quebec broadcasters, and international co-productions.

Foley

Custom Foley sessions in the studio room — shoes, props, surfaces. We build the sound world your picture needs, in a room designed to capture detail at any scale.

Location recording

On set across Montreal and Quebec from day one. We join your production team, capture clean audio, and feed files directly into post.

Restoration & forensic / legal

Noise reduction, dialogue recovery, and audio enhancement for Montreal and Quebec productions, broadcasters, law firms, and public institutions — work that needs to hold up under scrutiny.

Original score

Collaborating with composers and musicians, Expaz has been crafting original music for over two decades — Quebec and Canadian commercials, television, documentary, short film, theatre, and corporate projects.

EXPerience A-Z

A single point of contact for all audio on a production. Better integration between sound-for-picture workflows, driving significant overall operational synergies and budget savings. Available for all production sizes.

Expaz Studios — control room panoramic with live room
the room · la régie

Control room

A fully calibrated mix room with a large reference screen, full Atmos monitoring array, and a window directly into the live room. Record and mix in the same session without leaving the studio.

The room was designed, built, and calibrated by art and science — acoustics, monitoring chain, and all. It sounds the way it does because someone here made it that way.

  • Pro Tools Ultimate
    Mac · PC · bring your computer
  • Immersive audio ready
  • Stereo · 5.1 · 7.1 · 7.1.4 Atmos · Ambisonics
  • Calibrated control room — balanced decay across the spectrum, built in-house
  • Control room (windowed) — 31' × 12' × 10' (3720 cuft)
  • Live room — 31' × 24' × 10' (7440 cuft)
  • Booth room — 15' × 13' × 8' (1560 cuft)
Expaz Studios — 3D overview of control room and live room layout

Studio layout overview

Dolby Atmos renderer — Pro Tools Ultimate session, panner and bed/object monitoring
Expaz Studios — full 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos speaker array
dolby atmos · immersive audio

Immersive audio

Our room meets Dolby's recommendations and guidelines for Atmos music mixing and is listed in the Dolby Atmos Music Studio Directory — one of a handful of rooms in Montreal to have done so. Other immersive formats are also available.

Deliverables meet Netflix, streaming platform, and broadcast specifications. Crise d'Ado (2025) — Dolby Atmos mix, now streaming worldwide on Netflix.

Want to verify a mix you made on headphones before delivery? Bring your project — check it on a properly calibrated 7.1.4 room before it goes out.

Ask about Atmos

Deliverables & formats

Stereo, 5.1, 7.1, and 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos — home entertainment and music — plus Ambisonics for immersive projects. Loudness-compliant masters: EBU R128, ATSC A/85, and platform-specific specs including Netflix. Stems, M&E, and versioned masters. Conformation and final delivery in the formats your broadcaster or platform requires.

Expaz Studios — control room panoramic
selected projects · projets

Projects

Twenty years of projects across film, television, music, and emerging formats. Every major Quebec broadcaster. International distribution across multiple continents. Projects from our studios and team have won, or been nominated for, Gémeaux, ADISQ, Cubadisco, and international festival awards.

Selected projects 
Filter Award & nominations Mix & mastering Recording Sound design Original music EXPerience A-Z Immersive
  • Crise d'adoCrise d'adoprixSound editingMixingAdditional boom operation / field recordingVoice-over / ADR / vocal recordingMasteringImmersive mixPlay
  • Habiter la maisonHabiter la maisonMusic mixPlaywww
  • SisypheSisypheprixMixingwww
  • AmiiineAmiiineSound editingSound clean-up / restorationMixingMusic mixMasteringwww
  • Chicago Chicago Voice-over / ADR / vocal recordingwww
  • MRC de Roussillon MRC de Roussillon Voice-over / ADR / vocal recordingSound editingMixingMasteringPlay
  • Nordik Spa Nordik Spa Voice-over / ADR / vocal recordingSound editingMixingMasteringwww
  • TitaniqueTitaniqueVoice-over / ADR / vocal recordingMixingwww
  • HeroesHeroesMusic interpretationSinging vocals recordingMusic mixMasteringImmersive mixImmersive masteringPlay
  • Bernadette the musicalBernadette the musicalVoice-over / ADR / vocal recordingMixingwww
  • Michel Lemieux - Anima (remastered)Michel Lemieux - Anima (remastered)MasteringPlay
  • MisérablesMisérablesVoice-over / ADR / vocal recordingVideowww
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hors-norme · specialty work

The unusual jobs

Twenty years of mandates that required building the answer from scratch — custom tools, custom techniques, and approaches no other Montreal studio had tried before.

Insect field recording session — Montreal Insectarium

Live insect audio capture — Montreal Insectarium

Specialty microphone recording of live insects for the Montreal Insectarium — a controlled-environment capture method built specifically for the mandate.

SoundShark parabolic microphone setup for insect recording — Montreal Insectarium
Complete insect audio capture rig — parabolic mic, terrarium, and Sennheiser monitoring
Specialty field recording — airport tarmac location capture

Aircraft & extreme location recording

On tarmac aircraft sound capture, controlled location recordings for institutional and documentary clients. When the location is part of the sound.

Directional microphone capturing aircraft in flight — tarmac field recording session
Multi-mic array at airport field edge — aircraft recording setup, Montreal
Ambisonic hydrophone recording setup

Custom ambisonic hydrophones — underwater film capture

Designed and built custom ambisonic hydrophones for an underwater horror short film — immersive spatial audio capture below the surface, where no off-the-shelf solution existed.

Custom PZ Preamp hydrophone circuit boards — four channels, handbuilt
Multi-microphone lake ambiance recording rig — horror short film location, Quebec
GuyDub dUb12 — handbuilt C12-style tube microphone

Handbuilt studio microphone — C12-style tube condenser

Custom microphone built with NOS parts, its circuit heavily inspired by the vintage C12. The dUb12 is a large-diaphragm tube condenser handbuilt entirely in-house.

dUb12 tube microphone power supply — handbuilt internal components and transformer
Finished GuyDub dUb12 microphone with power supply unit
Engineer at the mix position — Expaz Studios
track record of distinction

Distinction

Established in Montreal since 2005. Projects from our studios and team have won, or been nominated for, Gémeaux, ADISQ, Cubadisco, and international festival awards across two decades of work in film, television, music, and emerging formats.

Gémeaux Nominated Best Sound — Humour, Variety & All Categories, 31st Gémeaux Awards — Popdejam
Cubadisco Winner Best Metal Album 2012 — Escape, La Hora de la Verdad (reamped, mixed & mastered by Expaz founder)
Aubagne Public Choice Award 2009 — Aubagne International Film Festival. Score composed and recorded by Expaz.
Gold record Ian Kelly Speak Your Mind — certified Gold in Canada. Expaz founder credited for additional engineering.
Netflix Atmos feature mix Expaz founder — Netflix Atmos mix credit
Dolby Atmos Listed studio Music & home entertainment — Dolby Atmos Music Studio Directory
Est. Since 2005 Expaz Studios — Montréal

Work heard across Quebec, Canada, and international markets — festival circuits, major networks, streaming platforms.

who it is for

Who is it for?

From independent short film to national broadcaster — if sound matters to your project, this is the room.

Film & television

Independent filmmakers, documentary productions, series, and feature films shooting in Montreal, across Quebec, and throughout the world. From web content to festival shorts, all the way to international broadcaster delivery.

Advertising, communication & PR agencies

Agencies & firms producing broadcast, web, and social campaigns. Atmos deliverables, original music, and broadcast-compliant audio for national and regional markets.

Broadcasters & streaming

Broadcasters, web or international streaming platforms: we deliver spec-compliant files on time — every time.

Legal & forensic

Law firms, insurance investigators, and public institutions across Quebec requiring certified audio analysis, dialogue recovery, and enhancement that holds up under scrutiny aimed at corroborating or challenging evidence.

Tell us about your project

Drop us a message and we will get back to you within a few hours.

T. +1 514 586-4893

C. info@expaz.net

1968 rue Parthenais, Studio 102
Montreal, Quebec  H2K 4M4 Canada

Montréal

5 min from downtown Montreal. Near Jacques-Cartier Bridge.

Parking

Free on-site parking for your team and clients.

Remote sessions on the platform your production already uses — Zoom, Meet, Teams, Riverside or Source-Connect. Toronto · London · Los Angeles · New York · and beyond.

Bilingual services — English / French

 

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