There are several sound people, aka sound recordists or production sound mixers out there. And many have the urge to shop around on rates. BUT buyer beware, the cheapest route is not often the best. Or the most experienced.
Compare putting cheap tires on a Ferrari? Is this idea wise at 150+ miles an hour? Probably not in the same instance of hiring a professional sound person, where you save a few bucks, for less experience. Less experienced sound recordists may not be able to troubleshoot a number of issues that could arise on a shoot, leading to production disaster.
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At the expense of efficiency, top equipment, prior experience and familiarity. Add my experience dating to 1990’s when I learned sound mixing to these factors. You are sure to have a problem free when you travel into Colorado as your sound person.
Why jeopardize an entire production budget taking chances on a professional like a cheap audio guy? Especially when you travel into Colorado for your one-shot chance, hire a sound guy with top gear plus decades experience.
Think of your sound as just as important or more in many instances to your video or film. If the audio is not clear, clean and problem free you have wasted time & money. Hire an experienced location sound engineer like me in the field. Or you will waste hours in editing time if the audio can be fixed.
Why Hire a Sound Recordist
Assist Your Production
There are several reasons to spend extra money to make your shoot as smooth as possible. Hiring a well-qualified location sound mixer/recordist/person, including:
Relying on several on-camera people all to have simultaneous clear, crisp, audible & usable sound requires a sound person.
Traveling all the resources in the world and not using a veteran freelance sound recordist is perilous.
To mix & record poor audio on your production can result in good video but lacking the sound.
Professional sound mixing & recording equipment is far superior to monitor audio quality.
Any problems from the camera’s speaker, and most cameras have a maximum of isolated inputs of 2. Sometimes 4 dedicated inputs.
They use a multiple track mixer recorder that can take 4 or more sources to their own clean tracks.
Costs of traveling a sound person from another state or country are compounded.
Travel costs include airfare, hotel, rental car, baggage fees, airport parking, among others. Whereas hiring a local sound man can cut these substantially.
Hiring a local freelance sound person can bring you the comfort as a camera person to concentrate on your creative demands.
Moving production equipment on location is always faster with the helpful hands of a local freelance hire.
Many camera people don’t have the more comprehensive background of mixing & recording sound. Just camera & lighting.
Sound people who have experience are typically the second crew member on a small camera crew.
Hiring a dedicated sound person to concentrate of every portion of your sound recording enables you as a camera person to concentrate.
Freeing up camera from sound monitoring allows concentration on continuity, credibility and actor delivery. And lighting/exposure, client communications and schedules or anything else that requires diversion away from intensive recording/mixing of audio.
Hiring a local dependable sound guy like me can ensure a future of production of hiring a resource anytime.
To assist you when you travel into Colorado for any type of production in video, film or television.
Hiring a sound person for on certain on-camera assignments, to many is a must.
Many news networks, television networks or producers, agencies among others demand a sound person is required.
An example includes a live hit (live broadcast), on a morning show where the sound person handles PL, IFB, multiple microphone sources, a mixer recorder, time code sync.
Motion picture films always require a sound person, and for features from distributors, it’s demanded to have a crew of sound people.
Re-shooting video or film as a result of no production sound mixer can happen or ADR for fixes.
The Veteran Factor
Taking a crash course in location sound could crash and burn your production.
Good veteran sound people have invested in the right adaptable equipment for any type of, or most any type of production. A really adaptable experienced location sound mixer can adapt to your type of shoot often with their equipment.
Sound people that are experienced and resourceful can adapt their equipment to mix & record from non-traditional or challenging audio sources.
I have the additional experience to assist in lighting, grip, moving equipment, among other common tasks to speed up your production.
Imagine wrapping up, making your flight, and having a great shoot in Denver or other Colorado area.
I have additional camera support equipment to reduce your air fare cargo / extra baggage costs and can provide these resources to you as a client. You can catch your flight in time.
Aside from Denver I’m close to the major production markets and populations and can work as a local in many metro areas.
Bad Audio = A Negative impact your audience & wasted money. No mulligans are typically allowed in a traveling production to Colorado.
Do yourself a favor and hire an experienced sound guy like me to set your production on the right track / success.
For questions, rates, costs or to book me fastest by telephone at 1 (720) 299-2084.
Example of video with no sound recordist hired.
This is a portion of a video where the production did not hire a sound recordist. Resulting in a buzz recorded that took SEVERAL HOURS in post to fix. And resulted in audio fidelity loss that could not be restored.
Don’t chance with your production budget. Hire an experienced sound person like myself. I ended up cleaning the audio as the editor, however sound quality was lost. I did NOT shoot this video or provide location sound on this one.