Dominick Tavella is an American
sound engineer
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproductio ...
. He has been sound mixing since 1976 and specializes in balancing and recording the final soundtrack in its many formats for film, TV, and documentaries.
D.A. Pennebaker was one of his college instructors who eventually became his mentor and later connected him to his first sound job. His first Union was as a transfer engineer, later a
re-recording engineer, at DuArt Film Laboratory in
New York City
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. There he mixed documentaries and low budget feature films.
In 1988, Tavella joined Sound One where he built his reputation among clients such as
Paul Schrader,
Jim Jarmusch,
Darren Aronofsky
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Arono ...
,
Ric Burns, and
Ken Burns. His documentaries, ''
Jazz
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'' and ''
New York'' were both nominated for
Emmys for best sound. In 2003, he won an
Oscar
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for
Best Sound Mixing and a
BAFTA for best sound for the film ''
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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He has worked on more than 180 films since 1981.
Filmography
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American audio engineers
Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners
Best Sound BAFTA Award winners
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