Magno Sound & Video



Magno Sound & Video are an American post-production studio. In 2003, Rhino remastered The Transformers, Magno was contracted to remaster the mono soundtrack into a 5.1 multi-channel one befitting a DVD release, but mixer Michael Jordan and sound editor Jeff Formosa infamously added in 30 new tracks of sound effects that did not exist in the original soundtrack by Sunbow Productions. Their reasoning was that the new mixes would appeal to a broader audience.

UK DVD distributor Metrodome brought Magno in to do similar work for their Transformers: The Movie - Reconstructed release, again Magno introduced the random sound effects heard in the Rhino release of the television series.

These "improvements" have been met with the considerable ire of the Transformers fandom, and since then, subsequent remasters of the Generation 1 cartoons have generally left the soundtracks alone.