SG provides a comfortable and professional environment for your project's audio needs. Our engineers are creative artists, composers, and technicians who know that the "right" sound can often be found in the most unexpected places if you're listening openly to the world around you.
We know that feature films, television commercials, web-content, DVDs, museum installations, CDs, radio — all have specific audio requirements unique to their medium and we know how to deliver them.
The tools that we use to help you tell your story change depending on the project requirements. One day its a string orchestra, the next an empty beer can with a marble inside. In either case, a combination of cutting-edge digital technology, acoustic instruments, and vintage analog circuits are used in conjunction with one indispensable constant — our ears.
Studio Guapo was founded in 2001 by composer, sound designer, and mixer Christopher Forrest.
After graduating from the California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in Music in 1995, Forrest returned to San Francisco and began working as a freelance audio engineer. He found the Bay Area's diverse film, music, and media communities to be a perfect fit for his creative and technical interests.
As a freelancer working at a number of local studios and facilities concurrently, Forrest contributed his talent to a broad array of genres and disciplines: music, dance, docs, web, features, ads, games, and theater. Some examples of his work include the documentaries "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" by Werner Herzog and the restoration/re-release of "Wattstax"; CD projects for Carlos Santana, Henry Kaiser, Nonesuch Records, and Jerry Garcia; radio and TV commercials for Budweiser, HP, and Hard Rock Café; and award-winning independent short and feature films that have screened in festivals at Cannes, Sundance, Rotterdam, San Francisco, and TriBeca.
At Studio Guapo, we believe this breadth of experience brings an added layer of expertise to the products and services we offer. We've found that working with a diverse group of talented artists and storytellers helps make one a much better listener and communicator. It reminds us to keep our minds and ears open and to be prepared for surprises. It also means that when the client asks if we can prep our tracks for a dub-stage at Skywalker Sound, design a surround-sound playback system for a 5 screen video installation in Barcelona, or deliver mixes for a cell phone, we get to say "Sure, we can do that."
