Location sound recordist for all of Florida

One recordist, the whole state

Based in Tampa · travels everywhere

• Tampa Bay is home — Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater and everything within about 50 miles, with no travel fee. More on Tampa →
• Statewide is routine — Orlando, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Jacksonville, Sarasota, Fort Myers, Naples, Gainesville, Tallahassee, the Keys and the Panhandle. I'm on Florida's highways every month.
• Cheaper than flying someone in — travel beyond 50 miles is billed at the standard federal mileage rate. No airfare, no hotel surprises, no lost half-day to gear check-in.

What you get on the day

A complete sound department

• Every mic on its own track — mixed and isolated on a Sound Devices 833, so post has options.
• Hidden wireless on talent — Sound Devices A20 with Sanken COS-11 lavs, invisible under any wardrobe.
• The right boom for the room — Sanken CS3-e, Schoeps CMC6 MK41, Sennheiser 416 or MKH 70, chosen for the space and the distance.
• Timecode, IFB and redundancy — jam-synced Tentacle timecode to every camera, Lectrosonics IFB when a client or director needs ears, and mirrored recordings on every job. Full gear list →

The work behind the name

Full-time since 2008

• Thousands of broadcast television productions: documentary, ENG & broadcast and commercial work for ESPN, ABC, HBO, TNT, BBC, Discovery, NatGeo, NFL Network, MLB Network, HGTV, Netflix and Fox Sports.
• Eighteen-plus years of Florida conditions — heat, salt air, boats, stadium crowds and summer storms — without losing a take.
• Curious what the job involves? I wrote it up: what a location sound mixer does.

Common questions

What does a location sound recordist do?

Captures all the audio on a shoot: hidden wireless lavs on talent, boom operation, mixing and recording isolated tracks, timecode sync to every camera, and clean files the editor can cut immediately. Full breakdown: what a location sound mixer does.

Is a "sound recordist" the same as a "production sound mixer"?

Same job, different regions and call sheets. Location sound recordist, production sound mixer, location sound mixer, sound man, sound guy — I answer to all of them.

Which parts of Florida do you cover?

All of them. No travel fee within about 50 miles of Tampa; beyond that, standard federal mileage rate — still far cheaper than flying a recordist in from out of state.