A meticulously arranged sound design workstation in a quiet UK studio, featuring a sleek black audio interface, dual high-resolution monitors showing waveforms, and a pair of matte-finish studio monitors with textured cones. A professional field recorder rests beside neatly coiled XLR cables and a slate-grey notebook. Soft, cool daylight from a large window falls across a clean wooden desk, creating subtle reflections on metal knobs and buttons. The mood is focused and professional, with a photographic realism style. Shot at eye level with a shallow depth of field, the foreground gear is razor sharp while the background acoustic panels and shelves of organized equipment gently blur, suggesting a dedicated sound designer at work without showing any people.

Rich Lee Sound

Sound design, recording and art for screen

About

Rich Lee is a Buckinghamshire-based sound designer, recordist and sound artist, crafting detailed, emotionally focused soundscapes for film, theatre and experimental performance, from location recording through to final mix and delivery.

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A compact, high-end field recording kit laid out on a weathered wooden bench in a quiet Buckinghamshire countryside location. A professional portable recorder with a bright, detailed screen sits beside a pair of shotgun microphones in furry windshields, neatly organized XLR cables, and a small, labelled SD card case. The surrounding environment shows soft green grass and distant hedgerows falling into a gentle bokeh. Overcast UK daylight creates diffused, shadowless light that evenly reveals textures in the gear. Photographic realism with a calm, purposeful atmosphere, captured from a slightly elevated angle, highlighting the readiness of the equipment to capture location sound for film and performance.
A minimalist mixing and sound design suite with a large, ultra-wide screen displaying a dense film timeline full of colourful audio tracks and waveforms. Beneath it, a compact control surface with illuminated faders and a backlit keyboard rests on a dark oak desk. A pair of premium, open-back headphones with velvety ear cushions lies carefully placed beside the keyboard. Subtle LED strip lighting glows softly along the back edge of the desk, while a single desk lamp casts warm, focused light on a printed cue sheet. The photographic image is composed using the rule of thirds, with a shallow depth of field keeping the central tools in crisp detail and the rest of the room gently blurred, conveying concentration and professional precision.

Services

From cinematic sound design and clean production dialogue to immersive sound art, I support projects at every stage of the audio process, offering flexible, collaborative services tailored to independent films, devised performance, installations and cross-disciplinary creative work.

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A carefully constructed sound art installation in a clean gallery-like space: several small, matte-black speakers of varying shapes are mounted on slim stands in a loose circle around a simple wooden plinth holding a compact playback device and a tangle of precisely labelled cables. The white walls and polished concrete floor reflect soft, diffused overhead lighting, creating gentle, elongated shadows from each stand. No visitors are present, emphasizing the objects and their potential sound. The photographic realism highlights every texture, from the brushed metal speaker grilles to the fine grain in the plinth’s wood. Captured from a slightly low, wide-angle perspective, the composition feels immersive and contemplative, evoking experimental sound art work without showing any people.
A professional on-location film sound setup arranged beside an empty director’s chair on a quiet UK street at dusk, with no humans visible. A sturdy boom pole with a shotgun microphone in a full blimp and windshield rests on a folding stand, next to a sound bag packed with a mixer-recorder, wireless receivers, and neatly colour-coded lavalier mics. Nearby, a clapperboard and closed equipment cases sit on the textured tarmac. Streetlights are just beginning to glow, mixing with the cool, fading natural light to create a subtle, cinematic atmosphere. The photographic composition is slightly low and three-quarter angled, with sharp focus on the boom and recorder while background terraced houses and parked cars fall into soft blur, conveying a professional, on-set sound recordist’s world without showing any crew.
A meticulously arranged sound design workstation in a quiet UK studio, featuring a sleek black audio interface, dual high-resolution monitors showing waveforms, and a pair of matte-finish studio monitors with textured cones. A professional field recorder rests beside neatly coiled XLR cables and a slate-grey notebook. Soft, cool daylight from a large window falls across a clean wooden desk, creating subtle reflections on metal knobs and buttons. The mood is focused and professional, with a photographic realism style. Shot at eye level with a shallow depth of field, the foreground gear is razor sharp while the background acoustic panels and shelves of organized equipment gently blur, suggesting a dedicated sound designer at work without showing any people.

Reviews

Aya Nakamura

Rich brought clarity and depth to our short film’s soundtrack, transforming tricky location recordings into a cohesive, expressive mix that elevated performance.

Mateo García

Working with Rich was seamless; he understood our theatre piece quickly and created responsive sound that supported performers without ever overwhelming the space.

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For film, theatre or installation projects, share a brief outline, dates and links to materials and I’ll respond with availability.

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