Sound Recordist Teams

Sound departments in Peru are built around the production sound mixer. The mixer heads a small team with a boom operator and a utility sound assistant, mostly running personal kits the mixer owns rather than third-party rentals. Our teams come from the Lima working community behind Cinesphere, Tondero Studios, and Audiovisual Project Perú. They also draw on the steady commercial pipeline that runs through the capital for Latin American agencies and global clients.

The roster carries confirmed credits across the Asu Mare cycle, Tondero feature work, and Sky and HBO Latin America commissions filming Peruvian locations. It also covers RTP and América Televisión drama, plus the David di Donatello-tier global features that shoot Cusco, the Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu. Gear packages centre on Sound Devices 833 and 888 recorders, Zaxcom Nova chassis, and Lectrosonics SRc with Wisycom MCR54 wireless running under MTC RF allocations. For dialogue, the kit adds Sennheiser MKH416 plus Schoeps and DPA capsules.

On the ground, departments are sized to fit the brief rather than to industry defaults. A documentary moving between Lima, the Sacred Valley, and the Amazon runs lean, with a mixer plus one boom operator managing battery, humidity, and altitude between setups. By contrast, a Tondero feature block or a multi-camera Latin American commercial in the capital carries full department staffing, with utility sound, a second boom, and its own playback.

Departments are at home on global co-productions. Senior mixers take direction from foreign producers in English, and speak Spanish with first assistant directors, the production office, and the rental desks at El Niño Rentals, Filmtek Perú, and RentCam Perú. Booking one of our sound teams gives you a single point of contact for crew scheduling, forms into DAFO and the Ministerio de Cultura, and steady quality across long calendars, from the Lima Film Festival cycle through to a Sundance or San Sebastián delivery deadline.