Marti D. Humphrey CAS is the CEO and Chief Re-Recording Mixer of “The Dub Stage”. Marti’s love for sound started when he was a child and he recoded “The Beatles” to his reel to reel when they originally appeared on The Ed Sullivan show. In High School Marti put together a sound system that rivaled any of his friends and peers and that tradition carries over still today. The 46 year veteran of Hollywood Post Sound started his career in 1980 at Complete Post working closely with his mentor Mixer Ed Greene. For six years Marti worked with some of the biggest names in the entertainment business. In 1986 Marti was pursued by Modern Videofilm and under the mentorship of Jerry Clemans, Marti soon became one of the busiest Re-Recording Mixers in Hollywood. In 1991 Sony Pictures contacted him and he accepted their offer to build him a brand new 2 man State of the Art Dub Stage on the Sony lot.
He expanded his work to include single camera episodic Television. He won 2 Emmy’s while he was at Sony Pictures. After 6 years at Sony Marti moved over to 4MC/ Todd AO. In 1999 Buena Vista /Disney called and he went to work with them for a year. In 2001 Marti started “The Dub Stage” and began using Pro Tools and mixing in the box long before it became the norm. In 2004 Marti opened “The Dub Stage” in its location in Burbank on Magnolia Blvd. where he mixed both high profile Feature Films and Television series there. He opened the First Immersive Dub Stage In Hollywood with Auro-3D 11.1 and then the world’s first DTS X room and then he installed Dolby Atmos and IMAX. The IMAX 12.0 stage was the second installation in Hollywood and “The Dub Stage” is the only Permanent Immersive Stage that can handle 4 Immersive formats: Dolby Atmos, IMAX 12.0/6.0, DTS X and Auro with a push of a button. He is currently building another Dub Stage in Burbank. Marti is married to his wife Lori for the past 44 years and has 2 grown children and 9 Grandchildren. His passions are Sound Mixing, his family and the LA Kings Ice Hockey and LA Dodgers baseball.
