Location Sound Packages

Here is how this works in practice. Location sound packages in Italy have to absorb the kind of working day a feature DP throws at the sound department — a morning Sky Italia drama interior in a Milano Bovisa stage, a midday move to a Mediaset Cologno Monzese exterior, and an evening pickup on a Roma centro storico cobbled lane with vespa traffic that nobody can lock.

Here is the short of it. Our team builds kits around Sound Devices 8-series recorders (833 and 888 for multi-track narrative work), MixPre series for smaller documentary units, and Zaxcom Deva and Maxx systems when a recording-capable transmitter chain is part of the design. Wireless count scales from a single Lectrosonics lavalier rig up to dozens of set up channels for ensemble drama, sourced through Aroundsound, EM srl, and Microphone Italia, with sound bag and cart configurations both held in inventory so the kit matches the shooting style instead of forcing it.

Here is the breakdown. Every package is prepped and frequency-coordinated before delivery, with location RF scans run against the post-700 MHz AGCOM allocation table and clean channels documented for the mixer, the boom op, and the wireless video department before day one. AITS-affiliated Italian production sound mixers trained at the Cinecittà sound stages can be added to the booking. Italian boom operators with experience working CCNL Cinema Audiovisivo schedules run the cart alongside them.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Backup transmitters, receivers, and recorders travel with longer schedules, technical support is on call throughout the shoot day, and delivery cycles run same-day from our Roma base, next-day to Milano, Torino, Bologna, Napoli, and Firenze, and set up transit to the Dolomites or the Cinque Terre when the unit moves regionally.