Ric Curtin

Ric Curtin’s music mixing career started in the early 1970s at Sarm Studios in London, where he worked with top bands of the day including Queen (A Night at the Opera album and the single ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’).

After working in Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore, he returned to Perth in 1992, where he moved into sound design and mixing for film and television. He built his own mixing studio in 2007.

‘When I first auditioned the Grover Notting Code 4, I noticed how clean the sound was, being free of phase interaction. It was like someone had run a cleaning cloth over my mix. Since using the Code 4s, I can get a mix together quicker as I can hear the detail. The mix also translates to other systems very well; this is important, given that broadcast mixes are heard on small speakers to large home cinema 5.1 systems. Adding the Grover Notting Universal Power Plant improved the already good performance.’

In 2014 Ric won awards for best sound in a documentary in both the national Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Awards (AACTA) and West Australian Screen Awards.