Location Sound Packages

Location sound packages on Chinese shoots must handle the full range of conditions a feature or series will meet. That spans a controlled stage at Hengdian World Studios, a Shanghai Bund exterior with Pudong-side helicopter noise overhead, a Beijing hutong restoration interior with traffic from the Second Ring Road bleeding through walls, and the Gobi Desert wind that hits an Inner Mongolia unit base by mid-afternoon.

Our rental team builds kits around Sound Devices 833 and 888 multi-track recorders as the narrative-feature standard, the MixPre series for lighter ENG and documentary work, and Zaxcom Nova and Maxx systems for shoots that need recording-capable transmitters. Wireless choice runs Lectrosonics SRc and SMQV, Wisycom MCR54, and Sennheiser EW-D based on channel count and budget. We pair these with DPA 6060 and 4060 subminiature lavs, Sanken COS-11D, and Countryman B6 capsules, each body imported via China Customs ATA carnet through our Beijing facility.

Each package ships fully prepped: recorder, mixer, wireless transmitters and receivers, boom microphone and pole, sound bag or cart, antenna distribution, cables, and the battery loadout the schedule needs. We plan frequencies against MIIT's allocation for Chinese production audio, and we run location RF scans during prep so a Wangfujing exterior or a Pingyao heritage interior comes in clean before crew call.

You can book crew alongside the gear. Chinese Filmmakers' Association-affiliated production sound mixers and boom operators trained at Communication University of China or the Beijing Film Academy are ready to hire. We match the bag-versus-cart setup to the real shooting style, with mobile bag kits for documentary unit work across Yunnan or Tibet and full cart setups for ensemble narrative drama at Hengdian or Qingdao Wanda Studios. Backup transmitters and a spare recorder travel with longer schedules, so an RF dropout on day four of a Shenzhen tech-product shoot does not stall recording.