Robin Wise rocks. She’s a pleasure to work with, but her critical, sensitive ear, and passion for technical excellence in the service of audio storytelling, make each experience rich and rewarding. My production company has worked with Robin for years. I give her the warmest, most absolute, most enthusiastic recommendation possible. Work with Robin; you won’t be disappointed.

–Sandy Tolan, Homelands Productions

“The Olive Oil Season” 7:00 by Homelands for NPR: Hidden Kitchens (mix: Robin Wise)

Robin Wise is owner of Sound Imagery studio. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree from Kent State University. She taught music and conducted award winning ensembles for 18 years. With this intense focus on music, she became obsessed with all sound and began perusing a career as an audio engineer. In 1992 she joined SoundPrint and in 1995 became the audio engineer for this series.

Robin and I have worked joyfully together as editor and engineer on a number of award-winning national series. Her amazing sensitivity in working with dozens of top notch producers never ceases to astound me. I hired Robin to coach me through the editing and assembly of my first full-length doc in Pro Tools. She will always be the engineer for my pieces because of her finely-tuned musical ear. I can count on her lively, intelligent contributions. Robin makes my stories sing.

–Catherine Stifter, Saving the Sierras: Voices of Conservation

“Grassroots Solutions for Sustaining Rural Communities” by Saving The Sierras 52:00 (mix: Robin Wise)

While at SoundPrint, Robin began teaching digital audio production to radio producers in transition from analog to digital. In 1997 Robin moved to Northern California and began working as an independent audio engineer.

My best radio work has been done with Robin. She’s a master of exquisite field recording, perfect ambient beds and finding the exact right piece of music. She is meticulous, hard working and, most importantly, a wonderful collaborator. Its great to sit next to her in a mix, knowing she gets the mood and tempo of what I’m trying to convey; but I can also just hand over a piece and be confident it will come back beautiful.

–Loretta Williams, SoundVision Productions

“Beyond Human” 54:00 from NPR: The DNA Files by SoundVision (mix: Robin Wise)

Since then Robin has mixed over 400 radio and multi-media productions, performed post-production on dozens of audio books for Simon & Schuster Audio, instituted and taught digital audio technology for 6 years at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, and has taught and consulted with countless independents. Robin has also taught digital audio for The United Nations, AARP, Marketplace.  She travels whenever possible to record sound on this planet.

Now in Fairview, NC, Robin continues her work with audio, hike the mountains, and raises veggies.

 

 

There is an art and craft to those dancing volume levels, to choreographing intertwined tracks of audio synchronicity. Being a former NPR Engineer, I thought myself a pretty good mixer… until I saw Robin work. She’s faster and better than me. She fixes problems I don’t even know exist, until I hear her fix. As a teacher, trainer or technical director, there is no project she will not improve. That’s why she’s HV’s T.D.”

–Barrett Golding, Hearing Voices

All Happy Families” 52:00 by Hearing Voices from NPR (mix: Robin Wise)