Ben Wiffen | Production Sound Mixer, Sound Recordist, Sound, PSC Sound Supervisor, Sound Supervisor

Ben is a Warwickshire based Production Sound Mixer and Pro Tools operator with experience recording across the entire audio industry from post production through music studios to location sound for TV and film. He has worked for most major networks including Netflix, Amazon, Disney, HBO and the BBC and maintains a full Production Sound cart, a PSC bag and a Pro Tools rig with the highest audio quality in mind.

After graduating with a 1st in Music Technology, Ben began his audio career as a runner with Wave Studios, a renowned soho post production studio owned by Oscar winner Johnnie Burn. After a time there, having progressed to a technical role in the ‘transfer bay’, Ben moved on into orchestral recording becoming an engineer at the Royal College of Music’s commercial recording studio where he spent the next 5 years honing his mixing skills and stereo recording techniques. After this period Ben became a freelance recordist and increasingly moved from music into the Film and TV industry. Joining Production Sound Mixer Tom Williams as a 2AS he leant new skills such as hidden lav placement techniques, boom operating and the etiquette involved on set.

Throughout his career Ben has built up his inventory of audio equipment and now works as a Production Sound Mixer and with an extensive knowledge across the industry is also well suited to Pro Tools playback operator roles on set combining the audio knowledge acquired across his time in post-production, music and TV.