Location Sound Packages

Here is how this works in practice. Brazilian location sound packages come together around Sound Devices 833 and 888 multi-track recorders, MixPre-10 II rigs for bag-based ENG and documentary, and Zaxcom Deva 24 + Nomad carts for narrative features needing high channel counts. We stack Lectrosonics SRc, DCR822, and SMWB / SMDWB body packs, Wisycom MTP60 + MCR54, and Sennheiser Digital 6000 receivers across the wireless side. With DPA 4060 / 6060 subminis, Sanken COS-11D, Sennheiser MKE 2, and Countryman B6 capsules for lavs.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. On the ground, Boom side carries Sennheiser MKH 416, Schoeps CMIT 5U, Sanken CS-3e, and DPA 4017B on K-Tek and Ambient poles. Inventory rotates through Cinerent Brasil, Cor & Som, and the Globo Estúdios PROJAC pool in Rio + Casablanca Studios São Paulo + O2 Filmes on the SP side. With cross-border kit imported through Sigma Cine LA on the 12-hour direct GRU flight when channel counts exceed local stock.

Here is the short of it. Each package ships ANATEL-cleared and frequency-coordinated: short-term licensing filed during prep, a fresh RF scan at each location, channel map shared with wireless video, lens-control, IFB, and IEM departments so nothing collides. Brazilian production mixers — many of whom trained on Globo PROJAC telenovela days or on Padilha + Salles + Meirelles feature work (Tropa de Elite, Two Popes, Narcos, I'm Still Here) — work in Portuguese-primary call-out with English overlap for global leads, and bring the calibration discipline a tropical-humidity, dense-ambience environment demands.

Here is how the picture comes together. On the ground, Bag rigs have silica drying, humidity-resistant cable jackets, and saltwater-rinse protocols for coastal work in Búzios, Salvador, and the Rio shore. Cart rigs add Hawkwoods or PSC Solice block-battery setups for long days in the Amazon and Pantanal where mains tie-ins aren't ready. Spare lithiums, AA stocks, capsule swaps, and a tested backup recorder ride in each truck.