About — Jake Camitta Audio

I’m an avid consumer of music of all types, podcasts, tech blogs, online editorials, pop culture, podcasts, and anything that makes me laugh. As an award nominated post-production sound designer/mixer, location audio mixer, team leader, podcast editor, and musician I’ve worked on numerous high-end projects ranging from Beyoncé’s video album Beyoncé to Pokémon. I’m excited about pushing the boundaries of audio quality and efficiency by utilizing current and cutting-edge technologies and methods. As an audio team leader, I’m also passionate about collaborating with other sound designers, mixers, freelancers, and interns on a variety of projects.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

RWBY on Crunchyroll – Led the audio team to deliver our most complicated season of RWBY to date, which topped the most viewed charts on Crunchyroll every week it was released.

A new level of fan interaction – Produced, planned, and helped execute a brand-new experience for Rooster Teeth fans at our yearly convention that allowed us to record their voice and immediately place it in a scene from one of their favorite RT shows.

Employee of the Year – Awarded Employee of the Year in 2019 for going above and beyond in my collaboration across the company. I helped business units across the enterprise deliver the highest quality audio possible by determining the best practices during pre-production, production, and post-production.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Rooster Teeth, Austin, TX Nov 2017 to Present

Rooster Teeth gets 1 million monthly active visitors and has over 45 million subscribers, employs over 200 people.

Audio Team Lead Oct 2020 to Present

Reporting to the Audio Producer and Head of Post-Production, responsible for leading a team of two full time audio engineers and a team of freelance audio engineers, sound designers, foley artists, and dialog editors.

• Led the audio production for a range of animated, reality, and narrative shows as well as podcasts across the Rooster Teeth portfolio

o My team falls under the post-production business unit, where we help produce 50+ episodes of video content every year that’s viewed by millions of people worldwide on services like HBO Max and Crunchyroll.

o Oversee the operation of 3 audio mix suites and 2 VO rooms where we record VO, ADR, and dub foreign language content into English.

o Work on every step of the audio pipeline, from production audio to sound design, dialogue cleanup and edit, VO record, and mixing in stereo and surround sound using Pro Tools for a multitude of animated, live action, and podcast projects including RWBY, Red vs. Blue, Death Battle, and Red Web.

• Serves as a Sound Supervisor by reading scripts and discussing audio goals with directors to begin to form the aural vision of the show and lay the outline for the work that will be done by the team.

o Work with producers to create and evaluate audio budgets and timelines and establish documents to track the work of the audio team.

o Review and give notes on team members' work based on direction from directors and producers.

• Dictate technical direction, making decisions involving plugins, sound libraries, recording equipment, and more, while keeping within our given budget. I keep up to date with the newest advancements in the audio field and I’m always looking for new ways to improve our content’s audio.

o Create and update various standard operating procedure documents establishing workflows and best practices for the audio team and freelancers we work with, as well as teams throughout the company who deal with audio in various capacities.

o Work with various department heads to research and determine optimal audio standards for playback on various streaming platforms.

• Responsible for leading the audio intern program, with a focus on recruiting, interviewing, and hiring the team.

Senior Audio Engineer/Audio Engineer, Sound designer, mix, location audio Nov 2017 to Oct 2020

Reporting to the Live Action Producer, responsible for sound design, dialogue editing, and mix on a variety of videos both animated and live action.

• Utilized plug-ins like iZotope RX, Fabfilter suite, Altiverb, Avid Pro Series bundle, SoundToys suite.

• Lead training sessions for the audio team and other departments on new workflow techniques and best practices.

o This training and education enabled other departments to more efficiently deliver high quality audio when budget didn’t allow for our team to work on something.

• Composed multiple versions of Rooster Teeth’s audio mnemonic.

o Worked with company heads to create audio branding for Rooster Teeth that is still synonymous with the company today.

• Functioned as in house location audio recordist.

o Enabled us to save on hard costs as well as be more nimble on how/when to shoot videos.

Freelance Sound Mixing/Sound Design by Jake Camitta, New York, NY 2015 to 2017

Audio Engineer, Sound designer, mix, location audio

• TV re-recording mixer for Pokémon Season 19 and Discovery’s Alaskan Bush People Ep. 30X & 307.

• Sustained ongoing communication with clients and team members while managing multiple deadlines on multiple projects.

• Location and studio audio mixing and recording for broadcast.

• Retained multiple return clients.

EARLY CAREER EXPERIENCE

Gramercy Post, New York, NY

Sound Designer/Mixer 2016

Deluxe, New York, NY

Sound Designer/Mixer, Recording Engineer 2012 to 2015

Bionic Media, New York, NY

Sound Designer/Mixer, Audio Assistant 2009 to 2012

EDUCATION

B.S., Audio Technology, American University, Washington D.C. - 2009

AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGY PROFILE