Sono-Mex Doblajes, S.A. de C.V. or simply Sonomex was a Mexican Spanish dubbing, post-production, dialogue translation, and audio recording company. It was originally founded by Julio Macías in partnership with Enrique Rodríguez Ruelas and Enrique Rodríguez López-Montoya. Years later, after ending the partnership between the owners, Macías as the sole author of the Sonomex brand, and with that name shortly after he would open a new dubbing company starting what years later would become The Macías Group.
History
Sono-Mex was founded in 1968 by Julio Macías in partnership with Enrique Rodríguez Ruelas and Enrique Rodríguez López-Montoya, and occupied the facilities of the now-defunct company Estudios Sonoros Mexicanos, located at Av. División del Norte № 2817, Mexico City.
Between 1976 and 1977, the partners also opened a branch in Los Angeles, California (United States), which operated under the trade name of Sono-Mex Hollywood. At the beginning of 1982, Macías ended his partnership with the Rodríguez family, keeping the Sono-Mex company name. Shortly after, Macías assigned this name to his new dubbing facility, located at Calle América № 224 in the Parque San Andrés de Coyoacán neighborhood, south of Mexico City, where they continued to dub various productions.
Sono-Mex Hollywood was also moved to another Los Angeles location where they did dubbing for a couple more years. Years later, Julio Macías' son, Arturo Macías, assumed control of the company and expanded the working capacity in what would be commercially called The Macías Group, or the Grupo Macías in Spanish. , creating two other dubbing companies in the Federal District of Mexico, The Art of Sound and Macías Televisión. Although Sonomex no longer dubbed in Los Angeles, Roman Sound International was founded in said country, which would function as the headquarters of the conglomerate. Since 1996, they would also venture into Portuguese dubbing, also carrying the Sonomex brand, creating Le Sound-Sonomex in Sao Paulo, Brazil http://www.lesound.com.br/.
In the year 2000, the Macías Group would enter the field of original productions with the children's series Max and his friends, baby look, made in Mexico, Sao Paulo and Los Angeles. Part of the material from Mexico was filmed in the same facilities as Sonomex, creating a preliminary version of what would become El Foro Macías.
In 2004, Sonomex stopped being used for voice dubbing due to internal changes that were occurring in the Macías group at that time, so in Mexico most of the projects they had been carrying out up to that moment were transferred to other group companies such as Art Sound and the recently created Sebastians, where El Foro would also move. However, Sono's facilities remained open to exclusively carry out post-production work on projects carried out by the other companies in the group, such as mixing, quality control or QC and foley. In 2016, the new property of the company IDF began to carry out the tasks carried out by Sonomex, so the company would reduce its work over time. In 2019, the company was permanently closed and the property was sold, ending the company that started the conglomerate.