Jun 29, 2020
For sound mixers/recordists it’s always been a balance of capturing the best location sound possible while dealing with airplanes, police sirens, construction, lawnmowers, leaf blowers, barking dogs, refrigerators, air conditioners, phones ringing……not to mention searching for a clean RF signal in a world of endless wireless interference, avoiding a boom mic in frame, rigging a mic to a complicated piece of wardrobe, pleading with director for one more take, barking at crew people for being chatty. ARGGGGGHHHHH!! If anyone on set has ever wondered why our default facial expression is a look of irritability, now you know why.
But hey this is the profession we chose and we accept that these obstacles will always be there. Joining myself in an airing of grievances are fellow sound mixers, Fiona McBain and Alex Sullivan. At this risk of this coming off like a pity party for sound department I hope listeners will at least walk away with an appreciation that without sound there truly is no picture.