recordist

[ ri-kawr-dist ]

noun

1. Also called sound recordist. Movies. the person in charge of sound recording recording on a film set. Compare mixer.
2. Also called recording engineer. a similar specialist in charge of recording recording an album, taping a television show, etc.:

   a video recordist.

Word History and Origins

Origin of recordist¹

First recorded in 1925–30; record + -ist

Example Sentences

It was mostly me, the director of the photography, who was often my husband, Mrinal Desai, our sound recordist and our driver.

From Los Angeles Times

Chris Watson, the wildlife sound recordist on the trip, told BBC News: "We heard remarkable things - the tapping of sperm whales thousands of feet down and dolphins echolocating and communicating but sadly no blue whales."

From BBC

They secured tracks from the country’s pre-eminent wildlife recordist and enlisted an Australian music-industry expert.

From New York Times

“You have to be patient because you can’t control thunderstorms,” says Frank Bry, 59, a sound effects recordist who creates libraries of sounds that he sells to video-game, television, movie and white-noise production companies.

From New York Times

A follow-up to “The Lost Words” and “The Lost Spells,” nature-centric children’s books written by Macfarlane and illustrated by Morris, “The Lost Sounds” is mostly the work of Watson, a sound recordist of wildlife around the U.K.

From New York Times