With a career that spans back to his days in recording more than a decade ago, Production Sound Mixer Jos Fr as has long-held a love for the audio industry.
Although he got his start in music, he's held many different audio production roles, which has led to his working on projects for high-profile clients, such as Motorola, IBM, ESPN, Time Magazine and more.
He shares his story in this latest installment of the DPA Sound Insight Q&A:
1. How did you get your start as a sound mixer?
I got my start as a production sound mixer about eight years ago. After working in the music industry for a few years, I decided to go back to school to explore other aspects of sound. While finishing my degree, an opportunity to work as a boom operator on a student film fell into my lap. The rest was history.
2. Please tell us about your background and your career, including any notable/favorite projects or any awards you have won for your work.
I first started in sound as a recording engineer for indie artists and musicians in the mid-2000s. After trying live sound, game sound, computer programming and post-production sound, I discovered production sound and have felt at-home ever since.
During my time as a production sound mixer, I've had the good fortune to work in a wide variety of projects, ranging from indie features to docu-series to commercials and more. Some past work I'm very proud of includes the reality TV show Fire Island; Motorola's MOTO Reissued branding campaign featuring graffiti artist Futura; Time Magazine's 2016 Person of the Year interview; The Lion King on Broadway's The Circle of Life in 360 and Aladdin on Broadway's A Friend Like Me in 360 virtual reality experiences; IBM's The Sounds of IBM immersive ASMR series; Ashe 68 virtual reality experience; and an upcoming ESPN documentary on retired NBA player and NBA Cares Ambassador, Felipe Lopez, to mention a few.
These days, along with all of my adventures as a production sound mixer, I also serve as a partner and head of production at Chapter Four, a full-service production company focused on immersive media.
3. What's the biggest project you have worked on in your career?
I don't know if it counts as the biggest project in my career, but most certainly one that holds a very special place for me from a creative, technical and historical perspective: Ashe '68. This is a virtual reality experience about the first black tennis player to win the U.S. Open and premiered at last year's U.S. Open in New York. It had its festival premiere at last year's Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontier line-up.
This particular project was such a pleasure to work on due to the creative and technical challenges. We had to discreetly record, in sync, anywhere between one and seven actors, while simultaneously recoding as many sound effects, foley sounds, room tone, impulse responses and ambisonic sound recordings we could get our hands on. We wanted to supplement post with as much useful sonic information as we could. At the center of it all, were DPA's 4060 and 4063 Miniature Omnidirectional Microphones, which served as the main tools to synchronously capturing the actors' performances.
4. How long have you been using DPA? When did you first start using DPA and why?
I started using DPA mics around 2013, shortly after having read a very thorough article about Simon Hayes use of them for Tom Hooper's Les Miserables. I remembered having watched the movie and specifically noting how excellent the sound was. In this article, Simon praised the DPA lavalier mics for how close of a match they were to the company's boom mics, and how the lavs played a key role in capturing every performance. I was sold! I had to try them out, so I bought a few 4060 s and 4063 s and I put them to use immediately on a TLC reality television show I was working on at the time. I was blown away by how much better they sounded than my other lavalier mics. I ended up replacing most of my lavalier mics with DPA and, soon after, added some DPA boom and gooseneck microphones to my kit.
5. What productions or shows have you used DPA mics for? What DPA mics do you use?
DPA microphones can be heard on pretty much every project I produce. Every time I employ the use of a lavalier microphone, a 4060 is my choice. Every time I plant or stash microphones, especially in a car, I'm likely using a d:dicate 4018 Supercardioid Microphone with an MMP-G preamp and gooseneck shock mount, a 4098 Supercardioid Microphone or a 4080 Miniature Cardioid Microphone. My short shotgun of choice is the 4017 Shotgun Microphone.
On the Fire Island project, one challenge we had to overcome was that cast members would often end up shirtless, which was inevitable when you're filming a show in a beach paradise. Initially, we considered using the off-the-shelf solution from DPA, the 4561 Necklace Microphones (now discontinued), but we opted to make custom necklace mic rigs so that we had more control over the way they looked. We collaborated with Rave from PerePaix Jewelry to build several necklace mics using the 4060 Miniature Omnidirectional Microphones. These made it possible to record sound in very difficult situations on this show.
6. What are some of the challenges of miking for the projects you work on? How does using DPA help solve these challenges?
The main challenge I face whether it's a scripted TV show, an unscripted documentary film, or a virtual reality experience is making sure I'm able to capture the actor's or subject's performance during production as true and as transparently as possible. The microphones I use must be transparent, so a flat frequency response is a must. Additionally, with how dynamic the human voice can be, a low self-noise and wide dynamic range are
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With a career that spans back to his days in recording more than a decade ago, Production Sound Mixer Jos Fr as has long-held a love for the audio industry. 
