Audio Recorders:
1. My primary recorder: Sound Devices MixPre-3
2. Tascam DR 60D MKI
3. Sony PCM M-10
Microphones:
4. Audio-Technica AT897 line/gradient directional condensers handheld or on mic stand (two)
5. Audio-Technica 8010 omnidirectional microphone
6. Shure SM7B vocal microphone (on mic stand)
7. DJI Mic Dual-Transmitter Compact Digital Wireless Microphone System (Tik Tok-style lavaliers)
8. Shure VP88 stereo condenser microphone
9. Audio-Technica Pro 70 cardioid wired lavalier mic
Microphone mounts
- Two handheld or video shock mounts (see #4 mics above)
- Tabletop microphone stand
- Two tripod boom microphone stands
- K-Tek Avalon KEG 100CC boom pole
- Accu-Lite Podcast Pro adjustable mic arm
Laptop computer: 2024 MacBook Air (for video call interviews)
Experience
I used the gear above for tape synced interviews for the following shows:
- 99% Invisible
- All Things Considered: Interviews with Eric Adams and Andrew Yang
- Antenna International
- Art + Ideas Podcast for the J. Paul Getty Trust
- BBC Cultural Frontline
- BBC Radio 2: The Kanye Story
- BBC Radio 4: “Fiery Inspiration” and “Can the Police Keep Us Safe?”
- BBC Sunday Feature
- Beyond Suspicion
- The Fridge Light
- The Economics of Everyday Things: Fortune Cookies and School Buses
- Eurasia Group Foundation
- Exile: A Podcast from the Leo Baeck Institute
- Fitness Flipped (Peloton)
- Formative
- The Health Report: ABC-RN
- How God Works
- Invisibilia
- KPCC’s The Frame
- Law & Order: Criminal Justice System
- LBI Presents with Mark Oppenheimer
- LiveWire
- Love + Radio
- Making Contact
- Making Gay History
- Milk Street Radio: Pete Wells (at 16:00), Elyse Inamine (at 0:54), George Motz (at 1:37) and Arianna Pasquini (forthcoming)
- New Yorker Radio Hour
- Open To Debate
- Power Shift
- PRI’s The World
- Radiolab’s More Perfect
- Recode Media with Peter Kafka
- Reveal
- Rockethouse Productions Ltd.
- The Splendid Table (forthcoming 2026)
- Story of the Week (Pushkin)
- Time’s Person of the Week: Jon Batiste and Ethan Hawke
- Views on First: Episode 5 – The 1A A-Bomb (Alex Abdo portion)
Rate (in accordance with AIR Rate Guide and Tape Syncers United): US$235 for first hour, then $50 each additional hour
