Department
Sound
Production sound mixers, sound designers, foley artists, dialog editors, re-recording mixers, and supervising sound editors. Every credit cited and confidence-rated.
- 12,401
- People in archive
- 15
- Top-credited count
- 7
- Roles indexed
- 6
- Curated dossiers
Cross-cuts
Post-housessound mix + sound design
All| Post-house | Discipline | Location | Productions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skywalker Sound | sound mix | Marin County · US | 5 |
| Formosa Group | sound mix | Los Angeles · US | 3 |
| Sony Pictures Post Production Services | sound mix | Culver City · US | 1 |
Most-cited professionals
All →| Name | Primary role | Nationality | Born | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Semanick | Re-Recording Mixer | USA | 1963 | 15 |
| Christopher Boyes | Re-Recording Mixer | USA | — | 14 |
| John Roesch | Foley Artist | — | 1954 | 14 |
| Ai-Ling Lee | Re-Recording Mixer | Singapore | — | 13 |
| Dan O'Connell | Foley Artist | — | — | 13 |
| Andy Nelson | Re-Recording Mixer | UK | — | 11 |
| Randy Thom | Sound Designer | USA | 1951 | 11 |
| Richard King | Supervising Sound Editor | USA | — | 11 |
| John T. Cucci | Foley Artist | — | — | 10 |
| Ren Klyce | Sound Designer | — | — | 10 |
| Gary Rizzo | Re-Recording Mixer | USA | 1972 | 9 |
| Philip Stockton | Supervising Sound Editor | — | — | 9 |
| Shelley Roden | Foley Artist | — | — | 9 |
| Skip Lievsay | Re-Recording Mixer | USA | 1953 | 9 |
| Tom Johnson | Re-Recording Mixer | — | — | 9 |
Curated dossiers
Glossary6 terms · sound vocabulary
- Production Sound Mixer
- On-set recordist. Captures dialog and ambience to multitrack — usually a 32-bit float location bag (Sound Devices 833 / 888) with boom, lavalier, and plant mics.
- Re-recording Mixer
- Post mixer who balances dialog, music, and effects stems to deliverable: 5.1, 7.1, Atmos. The credit you want for "the mix sounds great."
- Sound Designer
- Creates the non-dialog, non-music sonic content — Foley supervised, ambience built, weapons / vehicles / creatures designed. Often blurs into supervising sound editor.
- Foley Artist
- Performs synchronous everyday sounds (footsteps, cloth, props) to picture, on a Foley stage. Credit pairs with Foley Mixer and Foley Editor.
- Atmos / 5.1 / 7.1
- Final mix delivery formats. Atmos adds height channels and object-based panning over a 7.1.2 / 9.1.4 bed.
- ADR
- Automated Dialog Replacement — re-recording dialog in a booth to picture when production sound is unusable. Credit appears separately from production mixer.