How to Use recordist in a Sentence
recordist
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Those who started out as boom ops are sound recordists in their own right.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
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Track 1, first minute taken from audience recording (recordist unknown).
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 June 2026
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One scene conspicuously features the sound recordist’s microphone boom alongside the slate.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
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The film centers on Joan, a sound recordist living in isolation who heads back to her father’s estate in the wake of a devastating fire.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 May 2026
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On the director’s cue, Mary Berry was tenderly extricated from her thermal gilet and the floor was purged of its few dozen researchers, home economists, sound recordists, camera operators, technicians, producers, and researchers.
—Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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Fans have also chipped in for Betty Cantor-Jackson, a producer and sound recordist for the band, roadie Kidd Candelario and the Dead’s former onstage monitor engineer, Harry Popick.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 18 Dec. 2025
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An avid field recordist, Kamaru has spoken of running his documentations of his surroundings—buses and bustling markets in Nairobi, sirens and birdsong in Berlin—through various types of digital processing, stretching and mulching and interweaving them with synths until the humdrum becomes musical.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 21 Feb. 2026
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The crew consisted of photographer Jonathan Partridge from London, United Kingdom, sound recordist Matthew Magratten from Brooklyn, New York, sound recordist Drew Levinson from Boulder, Colorado, and photographer Andy Taylor, based in Sydney, Australia.
—Will Croxton, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
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