Paul Virostek has been doing a very nice interview series at his site Creative Field Recording, talking with several field recordists, mostly about the gear they use and their processes, techniques, etc. There’s also another two posts from there: a roundup post comparing and relating their setups, which constitutes a nice overview of choices when going to the field, and also an interesting list of suggestions of field recording gear.
“My goal for this series to build a resource for the community to learn from the experience of sound pros capturing field recordings right now. Of course, it’s impossible to mention every field recordist working today. I’d like this resource to be a running list, with the intent of adding more to it over time. If I missed you, and you have thoughts you’d like to share, please let me know.”
A Month of Field Recordists – Gear Profiles
- Michael F. Bates
- Frédéric Devanlay & Cedric Denooz
- René Coronado
- Tamas Dragon
- Shaun Farley
- David Fienup
- Stuart Fowkes
- Giel van Geloven
- Christian Hagelskjær From
- Ollie Hall
- Daan Hendriks
- Thomas Alf Holmemo
- Colin Hunter
- John Leonard
- Michel Marchant
- Stephan Marche
- Michael Maroussas
- Nathan Moody
- Timothy Muirhead
- Mikkel Nielsen
- Rob Nokes
- Martin Pinsonnault
- Michael Raphael
- Sebastian-Thies Hinrichsen
- Andreas Usenbenz
- Watson Wu
Comments
7 responses to “A Field Recording Gear List, Based on Interviews with 26 Recordists”
next time you wish to include any women feel free to consider me 😉
Apologies, I may have left an angry comment, I thought you had written this article. I have e-mailed Paul Virostek and asked him why he didn’t bother to include any female field recordist. I know there are many good ones.
I posted about this series on the ‘a quiet position’ group, mentioning that the lack of female recordists is problematic + that really this series is about location sound recordists. The term ‘field recording’ has shifted from that narrow area quite a lot in recent years. I think some folks will be contacting you about the gender bias so I hope that helps expand the series a bit. Can I also suggest that you might want to include more artists in this ? but don’t wait for people to suggest folks – do the research yourself as there are 1000’s of interesting folks working with field recording, of all genders.
Hi. She is very funny your list. People make field recordings would only be men. Or you consider that girls can not speak hardware. You would be surprised!
And perhaps learn things.Come on guy’s. We are in 2015 ! Aline
Great leads here…if someone wants to be on that list they need to get out there and do the work to get noticed…I Have been in Foley and ambient work for awhile and have heard of these people because they are established…if anyone has any leads on any female sound recordist I would like to hear what they have to say on the subject but do not sit there and complain that there is not a demographic referenced here unless you are going to give some leads to where they can be found or you yourselves are going to go out and work to get noticed…
And besides that this site has nothing to do with the interview choices that Paul made…they are just pointing you to peoples product reviews…
It’s true that the list is void of female, but let’s not disregard that the initiative is pretty awesome, and very much appreciated. Props for the idea and the making of it, even if, indeed, there should be more females sound recordist in the list.
Christina Kubisch, Jana Winderen, Kate Carr, Camilla Hannan… just to name a few of many. Also check out: http://www.audiblewomen.com/ Great resource.