Andrés G. Duarte

Founder, Sound Supervisor, Production Sound Recordist

250+ Audio Projects Completed

Honors & Awards

Best Sound Design Award Winner

Festival Audiovisual Poporopo 2019 (Popcorn Film Festival 2019), Guatemala.

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Best Sound Award Winner

Icaro International Film Festival  XVII (Festival Ícaro XVII), Guatemala, 2014.

IMDB

German Press Conference Panelist  

Alongside Ben Burtt, 2-time Oscar Winner. Media Sound Hamburg, Germany, 2017

Bio

I have worked on more than 250 projects, amongst them Feature Films, TV Series, Documentaries, Short Films, Trailers, Promotional videos, Corporate videos, and Advertisements since 2011.

I have also learned from Oscar-winning professionals who worked in movies like Star Wars, Mission Impossible, James Bond, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Wonder Woman, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial amongst others. Most notably Ben Burtt: Sound Designer of Star Wars, Randy Thom: Director of sound design at Skywalker Sound, and James Mather: supervising sound editor for the Harry Potter films.

Experienced in music production, recording, and mixing. Played live in music festivals and small to medium venues for 8 years. And more than 8 years of teaching sound related courses at a post secondary level.

Optimus Sound

In early 2013, I founded Optimus Sound in Guatemala after the realization that there were virtually no sound studios or professionals who were truly devoted, fully immersed, or understood the art of sound for film. The studio then provided the best sound-for-film services in Guatemala for almost a decade. Now based in Vancouver, Canada.

Professional Audio Services - Film, Podcasts, Audiobooks, you name it.

  • Consultancy: You have a project, product, or service. It needs or involves sound in any way. You need professional guidance and help from an Audio Production Expert. We are here to help!

  • Sound Editing

  • Sound post production supervision for film

    • Conceptual, creative, and or technical direction

    • Budgeting, hiring and talent management, supervision and leadership, QA, ensuring project delivery as per quality and timeline required.

    • Dialogue and sound editing

    • Voice Over recording, editing, mixing, and/or coordination.

    • ADR recording, directing, editing, and or/mixing

    • Foley

    • Sound design

    • Mixing

    • Foreign language dubbing

  • Voice Over recording, editing, mixing, and/or coordination.

  • Music editing, mixing, and mastering

  • Audio reparation (we can repair noisy audio by removing hum, hiss, crackle, wind noise, overall ambient noise, etc.)

  • On set production sound recording.