Founded in 1994 by musician and sound designer Michael Godfrey, Rising Sun Productions Ltd. is a specialty audio production and post-production shop dedicated to achieving the most realistic listening experience from recorded audio.

While working on numerous albums and providing sound design services for film and television projects, Michael was driven by a memory of listening to a Pink Floyd Album over headphones in the 1990s while walking on a beach in IOS, Greece. The listening experience was so real that at one point he actually thought someone was walking up from behind him. He turned around only to realize that it was the realism of this three-dimensional, binaural recording that transported him into a new realm. How powerful!

Michael soon began experiments with a binaural microphone system in a dummy head to emulate how the human head receives and experiences audio signals. By this time, multi-channel audio systems were becoming more popular to professionals and to consumers. The growth of home theater further inspired Mike's experiments because now people everywhere could be transported into a 3D listening experience from pre-recorded audio in their very own living rooms.

In late 1994, Mike developed initial designs for a prototype Holophone surround sound microphone system, which included ten microphones arranged in an enclosure roughly the size and shape of a Nerf football. Such an arrangement would capture all sound complete with detailed ambiance, providing greater localization and a more realistic listening experience of the recording.

Rising Sun Productions Ltd. was granted a patent for this unique utilization of microphones and for the Holophone surround sound microphone system.

The Canadian National Research Council joined a collaborative effort to further refine the Holophone system, ensuring compliance for all professional audio recording applications — HD and standard television broadcasting, live music and sporting event broadcasting and recording, and feature film production recording.

The Holophone surround system is available today for professionals wishing to optimize their surround sound recording projects. Development is underway for a consumer product, Holophone Mini, that will serve as the ideal complement to camcorder users wishing to record "real home movies" in surround sound for playback over their home theatre systems.

Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Rising Sun Productions has satellite offices in Southern California and UK.