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About Me When I was 10, my Mom and Dad gave me a Sony Tape Cassette recorder. I was completely captivated by recording anything and everything, and I was amazed at how you could save the sounds to tape, organize the tapes, and later play them back at any time (provided I had batteries at the time). It kicked off a life long fascination with how sound can be manipulated, stored, and recalled.
While the tools have changed over the years, the art of recording sound still remains the same and will always be the same. With an ear for sound, doing sound mixing seamed like a shoe in for me. I decided to buy some of my own equipment and work small gigs gaining experience. Since then I’ve been buying more equipment, and working as many production sound jobs as I can. This year I completed my second feature film as the lead sound mixer, and I am building my reference list as well as IMDb credit now. Production Assistant, Sound Design, Editing, Post Production Sound Design (Dolby Digital 5.1), and DVD authoring/creating are just a few of the many hats that I can wear. I am also proficient at motion graphics, programming, artwork, design, and technical task. I pride myself in cutting edge technologies. I'm fluent in Mac, Windows, and Linux and I know my way around Final Cut Studio (Apple Certified), Photoshop, Flash, and After Effects. My organizational abilities make me a really great editor, as well as a forward thinking engineer and designer. I've taught classes on sound mixing and editing at Fullerton College, Saddleback College, and Capistrano Unified School District. I use these skills to bring to the table my experience, professional work ethic, reliability and dedication to the task while contributing as a team player. My philosophy is that you should NEVER stop learning, and there's always room for improvements. Filmmaking is my chosen destiny. The business of Hollywood is brutal, the hours are long, and the wages (if your lucky enough to get a wage) is sometimes non existent. But to me, it all doesn't matter. When I'm on the set, there is no place that I'd rather be. The chosen people that I'm on the set with are all there for a reason, and together we can make "magic".
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Take a look at my IMDb credits:
Recent films I've worked on:
HeroMan - Independent
Sound Articles by me:
Sound Mixing 101
Fellow Sound Mixers:
Phillip W. Palmer
Great Articles about sound:
From analog to digital
Blogs about the Biz:
Script Goddess
My favorite Stores:
CoffeySound - LA
I'm available any time 24/7 email (I live on email) or cell phone 949.290.8853. I'm also available for lectures or consulting. Contact me for details. soundguy[at]hanaho.com
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In high school I owned my own Mobile DJ business, and I’ve worked at several very small recording studios. When I went to college I studied Architecture, which took me away from the sound field for a short time. After college I started working for AT&T as a communications technician. The position at AT&T was highly technical, in which it taught me a tremendous amount about frequencies, hertz and data rates used in transporting digital voice across vast distances. Growing up in LA, I always wanted to pursue a career in film, but just never followed up. In 2000 I got a temp job working as a production assistant on the set of a 16mm film school project. During the filming, the original boom op had to leave early that day, and I was asked if I’d pick up the boom and hold it on the set. This was the catalyst that had me hooked, and it felt so natural.
