Thirty-plus years making release-ready records, from Gold-certified pop singles and US rock albums to the official songs of the Pan Am Games and Canada's Paralympic Team.
Murray Daigle is a Toronto-based record producer, mixing engineer and songwriter. He is senior engineer in residence at Phase One Studios, one of Canada's best-known recording facilities, and teaches advanced production and mixing at Centennial College.
He built MDS Recording from a house studio into a name-brand room trusted by Warner, Universal, Sony, EMI, Lava and Atlantic Records, where he was a development producer and demo engineer for the label's California A&R team. For Wind-Up Records in New York he produced, recorded and mixed Cauterize's So Far From Real, which charted in the US, landed placements in DreamWorks' EuroTrip and Nintendo's 1080° Avalanche, and has passed 9 million Spotify streams.
He co-wrote and mixed Neverest's Gold-certified SOCAN #1 "About Us," co-wrote, produced and mixed "Together We Are One," the official song of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, and co-wrote and produced Eva Avila's "Shine" for Canada's Paralympic Team. Recent work includes the Post Tense singles (6M+ streams) and Steph La Rochelle's JUNO-nominated EP Wildflower.
His specialty is leading large, logistically complex productions from start to finish: multiple studios, big session-player rosters, and A-list artists, managers and labels. He is also an expert in music publishing and master-recording copyright, a subject he designed and taught at college level.
Also: Howie D ("Lie to Me," producer) · Platinum Blonde (Now & Never, producer) · Solidemo ("Beautiful," Avex Trax Japan, co-writer & co-producer) · Mikalyn and Bree Taylor (co-writer, producer, mixer, mastering) · One In The Chamber (producer, engineer, mixer, mastering) · Reverie: The Indigenous Music Residency, CBC & SOCAN Foundation (producer, mixer, mastering) · Not By Choice · The Fullblast · Warmachine (co-produced with David Ellefson). Full discography on Discogs and AllMusic.
A running playlist of records Murray produced, mixed or wrote, from Cauterize and Neverest to Post Tense and Steph La Rochelle.
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Based in Toronto, Ontario, working with artists everywhere.
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