About David Fienup

David Fienup is a sound designer and sound engineer with experience writing, producing, recording, editing, mixing and mastering music. Experience with production and post-production sound for picture including boom-op, production sound mixer, dialogue editing, ADR recording/editing, sound effects creation/editing, Foley artist/mixer, music composition/arranging, final mix engineering, supervising sound editor, and general sound design. Extensive music composition experience in classical, electronic, electroacoustic, rock and blues. Comfortable in large and small studios, and on-location recording situations.

David has been working on a sound effects collection since May 2009, recording and editing over 2,800 sounds in a year, while also working on many independent short and feature films. David strives for the highest fidelity possible, and takes personal care in high-precision editing. As of 6/10/11, David has amassed over 3,800 sound effects, and his collection grows daily.

Full resume and portfolio examples can be found on his website: www.davidfienup.com

He holds a Bachelor of Art in classical performance from Albion College, Albion, Michigan, USA where he began composing and recording music. He also received a Master of Arts in Media Arts in May 2009 from the University of Michigan, USA. His thesis was entitled "Motion Picture Sound Design: Sonic Motifs, Soundscapes, and Synchresis." Written portion of thesis available upon request.

Recording/editing gear
microphones: 2x Rode NTG-2, Rode NT4 (stereo), Blue Blueberry, 2x Shure KSM 109, Sony PCM-D50 (stereo linear PCM recorder), Sennheiser ew 100 G3 wireless lav, 3x SHS dynamic.

hardware: Sony PCM-D50, Digidesign 192 I/O, ProTools HD 2 Accel, Digidesign Command 8, Digidesign Mbox 2 Pro, MacBook Pro, MacPro, Mac G5, Sound Devices 702T

software: ProTools HD 8, ProTools LE 8, Peak Pro 6, SoundHack, Max/MSP 5, Finale 2008, QuickTime Pro, Final Cut Studio (Final Cut Pro, SoundTrack Pro, etc)