Richard Hubbard Location Sound & Cinema Drone
Richard Hubbard booming a string quartet on a concert-hall stage, bag-mounted mixer on his chest, with a camera on a slider in the foreground

Perth · WA · Interstate

Location sound recording & production mixing

Production audio for documentary, factual, drama, reality, ENG and commercials, recorded in Perth, across WA, interstate and overseas.

The recording is half the job

The other half is reading the room: knowing when to move a mic and when to leave it, when to speak up on set and when to stay out of the way, and what the edit is going to need three months from now.

Most of the difference between a usable track and a difficult one is decided in the first ten minutes on location, before a single mic goes up. That judgement is what 15+ years buys you, and it's the part that doesn't show up on an equipment list.

What a shoot day looks like

  • Multitrack recording with Zaxcom wireless, radio mics and boom
  • IFB to the director and crew, so everyone hears what the mixer hears
  • Timecode to every camera, so the edit lines up without anyone thinking about it
  • Isolated tracks plus a mix, delivered the way post wants them
  • Boat, vehicle and aircraft rigs built for the shot

Recognised by the Australian Screen Sound Guild

Winner · 2025

Best Sound for Documentary

Yurlu | Country

Nominee · 2022

Best Sound for an Independent Feature

Pieces

Richard Hubbard recording location sound inside an aircraft engine on location
Darwin Award nominee (engine off, promise)

Formats

Documentary & factual

Single camera, long days, unpredictable locations. The bulk of the work.

Drama

Boom and radios, second-unit and multi-camera blocks, working to a sound department or running it.

Reality & ENG

Fast turnarounds, multiple radio channels, no second takes.

Commercials & corporate

Controlled setups where the client is standing behind the monitor and the audio has to be right first time.

Credits of note

See full credits →

Yurlu | Country

Illuminate Films

Winner · ASSG Best Sound for Documentary 2025

2025

Secrets of Our Universe with Tim Peake

Objective Media Group

2023

When Sharks Attack

Arrow Media · National Geographic

2022

Aussie Gold Hunters

Electric Pictures · Discovery

2015–2017

ANZAC: 100 Year Anniversary

National Geographic

2015

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