About
Larry Kaltenbach
Production sound mixer. Credits include 60 Minutes, Saturday Night Live, NFL Films, and an Emmy® Award with the ABC News Nightline team.
Three Decades Behind the Mixer
I started in production sound on ENG crews and have mixed through every generation of the technology since: analog wireless to Lectrosonics digital, DAT tape to Sound Devices multi-track, single-frequency IFBs to full RF-coordinated packages. The shows kept pace: 60 Minutes, Saturday Night Live, NFL Films, Good Morning America.
My work has taken me from the floor of Madison Square Garden to the sidelines of NFL stadiums, from the White House press room to remote documentary locations around the world. I've mixed sound aboard Air Force One, on the set of Saturday Night Live, and in the editing suites of NFL Films.
I earned an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Live Sound Mixing as part of the team on ABC News Nightline, and a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Live and Direct to Tape Sound Mixing.
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Career Highlights
Notable Work
Broadcast News
ABC World News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Dateline, 60 Minutes, 20/20, Nightline, Good Morning America, Today, Meet the Press.
Sports
ESPN SportsCenter, NFL Films (Hard Knocks, Quarterback), Sunday Countdown, NBA & NFL Draft, Friday Night Fights, Top Rank Boxing, Wide World of Sports.
Entertainment
Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report, The View, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, HBO Real Sports, Inside the NFL, Yo! MTV Raps.
Documentary & Specials
PBS Frontline, Firing Line, NOVA, NewsHour, ESPN Films 30 for 30, ABC Soul of a Nation, 48 Hours, CBS Sunday Morning.
How I Work
I work solo by design. You hire me, you get me. Same person setting up the wireless, mixing the audio, and handing off the files at wrap.
I own and maintain all my gear: Lectrosonics wireless, Sound Devices recorders, Sennheiser and Sanken microphones, Comtek IFBs, Tentacle timecode. The full kit rides in my vehicle. I can be on set the same day you call.
I'm based in northern New Jersey and regularly work across NYC (all five boroughs), New Jersey, and the Philadelphia metro area. For productions farther afield, I'm available for travel.
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