Sound Kit Packages

When you hire my services to record sound, I provide the best equipment available to get the job done to the highest standard. Below is a selection of kit packages i can provide, all of which can be tailored to suit your project’s requirements. Please call me to discuss your brief and I can advise you on what we will need, and provide a competitive quote.

1. Full Cart

This kit is aimed squarely at full feature film and complex TV drama work.  Expandable with additional items to suit. The recorder easily lifts off the cart for swapping over to in-car or bag work.

  • Custom production sound cart
  • Aaton Cantar X3. Time-coded recorder - up to 24 tracks*
  • Aaton Cantarem 2. 12 channel mix surface
  • Cedar DNS2 noise reduction provided on to a duplicate mix track
  • Selection of top-spec shot gun and super-cardioid microphones
  • 8 x radio mic channels - expandable to 12 [ Lectro & Wisy ]
  • 6 x Sennheiser IEM - expandable to 10 [ more can be cross-hired ]
  • Personal lav mic kit - extensive choice of type, colour and mount
  • Antenna distribution and a pair of stark fin antenna
  • 2 x drama boom poles and 2 x short boom poles
  • Twin or triple SDI video monitors
  • 2 x wireless booms - critical for hand-held, Steadicam or gimbal work
  • 2x boom operator private feeds with separate talkback, in-crew comms
  • Battery / mains support - rechargeable AAs for wireless
  • Cables and accessories
  • Junior Magliner follow cart
  • Custom Magliner cart with carpets, sound blankets and stands
  • 3x walkie talkies
  • Sound grip kit - clamps, arms and rigs for attaching mics

Fully caged / deadlocked VW T6 transporter. Crew seat to carry 4 passengers. Delivery and collection costs apply.

Additional items - Job Specific. For cart work.

  • Wireless guide audio to camera. small & cost effective for sync.
  • Wireless camera hop for master mix or master split track
  • LS-1 timecode slates - up to 4 available
  • Camera mounted tiny lockit boxes - up to 4 available
  • Extra production ‘listens’.
  • Scheops MS stereo pair - controllable width stereo for FX
  • Sennheiser wireless stick mic and receiver.
  • 2x battery powered playback speakers and stands - small PA size

This kit is ideal for commercials and the more straight forward of television drama shoots. It is more easily packed for flying. Expandable with additional items to suit. The recorder easily lifts off the cart for swapping over to in-car or bag work.

  • Small foldable custom sound cart
  • Aaton Cantar Mini - time-coded recorder
  • Aaton Cantarem 2 - mix surface
  • Selection of top spec shotgun and super-cardioid microphones
  • 6 x radio mic channels - expandable to 8 [ Lectro & Wisy ]
  • 4 x Sennheiser IEM - expandable to 10 [ more can be cross-hired ]
  • Personal lav mic kit - extensive choice of type, colour and mount
  • Antenna distribution and a pair of stark fin antenna
  • Drama boom pole and short boom pole
  • Twin or triple SDI video monitors
  • Wireless Boom - critical for hand-held, Steadicam or gimbal work
  • Boom operator private feed / sound crew comms with separate talkback
  • Battery / mains support. rechargeable AAs for wireless
  • Cables and accessories
  • Sound grip kit - clamps, arms and rigs for attaching mics

Fully caged / deadlocked VW T6 transporter. Crew seat to carry 4 passengers. Delivery and collection costs apply.

2. Compact Cart

3. Documentary Bag

A compact but fully featured documentary package fitting into a couple of bags, dropping into a flight case and cabin bag for flying. A mono or split track mix and clearly labelled ISO tracks and sound report will be provided via SD card.

  • Sound Devices 633 mixer / time-coded recorder - mix and ISOs
  • Cable feed to 2 cameras and sound rushes provided on SD card
  • Boom mic. interior & exterior suspension with full wind protection
  • 2 x radio mic channels - expandable to 4 [ Lectro or Wisy ]
  • Personal ‘lav’ mics. [ DPA or Sanken ]
  • Documentary boom pole
  • Headphones
  • Equipment batteries, and rechargeable AAs for wireless.
  • Cables & accessories

Additional items - Job Specific. For bag work.

  • A second ‘matched’ boom mic and stands for cross-shooting interviews
  • Wireless guide audio to camera. small & cost effective for sync
  • Wireless camera hop for master mix or master split track
  • LS-1 Timecode slates - up to 4 available
  • Camera mounted tiny lockit boxes - up to 4 available
  • Sennheiser IEM system - up to 10 production ‘listens’ available
  • Scheops MS stereo pair - controllable width stereo for FX
  • Sennheiser wireless stick mic and receiver.

I own and operate a fantastic sounding, compact music recording rig for tracking bands, recording tv performances or tracking festival stages. I can also arrange finished mixes and mastering of music tracks, turned around a few days after the recording.

The beauty of needing to run only a few light cables means this little rig can be placed up to 50 metres from the stage, with a tiny footprint either backstage, in another room in the venue or out in a truck.

I offer a guide mix for the edit, and for sessions, a basic monitor mix for the band. I’m currently not set up to provide master mixes for live events.

 

  • Midas M32R - compact 32 channel mixing console offering recording outputs via DANTE to a laptop DAW or X3. ISO track recording for each channel, and monitor mix for the offline
  • 32 channel x 16 channel stage boxes and 50M digital ethercon loom
  • 1x Neumann KMS 104 cardioid stage condenser vocal mic
  • 3x Shure SM58 dynamic vocal mics
  • 3x Shure SM57 dynamic instrument mics
  • 1x Shure Kick drum mic
  • 1x Shure bass cab mic
  • 1x Sennheiser guitar mic
  • 2x Radial P48 DI boxes
  • 2x Radial passive mic splits
  • 10x tall mic stands
  • 3x short mic stands
  • 1x JBL active wedge monitor
  • Microphone and power cables
  • Crowd mics and rigging kit
  • Selection of Scheops and DPA condenser mics for orchestral, choral and acoustic work

Fully caged / deadlocked VW T6 transporter. Crew seat to carry 4 passengers. Delivery and collection costs apply.

4. Music Rig

5. Mini Bag

The perfect small, cost effective package for interior interviews, links and corporate work. The same top-spec quality offered as the bigger kits all fitting within a discrete, cabin-sized back pack.

  • Mixer and cable to camera
  • Boom mic, small pole, interior suspension and softie
  • 2x radio mic channels [ Lectro or Wisy ]
  • 2x personal ‘lav’ mics. [ DPA or Sanken ]
  • Headphones
  • Equipment battery, cables & accessories.