Not a discount post house. Not a freelancer marketplace. A purpose-built collective: a dedicated lead mixer on your project, a trained team behind them, and a 30-year veteran signing off on every mix. We will tell you exactly who touches your film and when. That is the whole idea.
There are a few names in our world, and we would rather you understand them in thirty seconds than wonder about them for a week. Here is exactly who does what, and why the whole thing exists: supporting the next generation of audio post professionals.
A global community of audio post professionals and the next generation coming up behind them. Created and headed by Joe Miuccio, a 30-year veteran re-recording mixer and sound designer.
Where the mentorship and training happens. The next generation masters real audio post craft here, 150 sessions deep, before they ever touch client work.
Joe's audio post company, based in the NYC metro area. Your film's sound gets done here, under his supervision and final sign-off.
Where independent filmmakers come in. A division of Pure Sound Inc. We match your project with a dedicated lead mixer and the trained bench, and run everything through Pure Sound.
Most post houses won't answer that question. We lead with it. Every Indie Sound Collective project runs on the same three-part structure, and you know all three names before we spot a single reel.
A dedicated lead sound designer and mixer is your single point of contact from spotting session to print master. One relationship, start to finish. No hand-offs, no account managers, no telephone game.
Dialogue editors, sound designers, and Foley artists trained through the Audio Post Career Accelerator: a 150-session curriculum in real audio post craft. They have logged supervised hours before your film ever reaches them. Your project may be a first film credit on a rising career, earned under total supervision.
Joe Miuccio, a re-recording mixer with 30 years in New York audio post, reviews and signs off on every project through Pure Sound Inc. Nothing ships without a veteran's ears on it.
This is the actual route every project takes, including who is in the room at each stage. Transparency is not a marketing word here. It is the routing diagram.
We watch your film together and build the map: every dialogue fix, every design moment, every music cue. You leave with a scope, a schedule, and a real number.
APCA-trained editors clean and conform your dialogue while designers build the world of the film. Your lead directs the work and reviews everything before it moves downstream.
Before the final mix, the full session goes under veteran review. Thirty years of professional broadcast delivery standards applied to your indie film. This gate is why the model works, and it is never skipped.
Your lead mixes the film with you, in real time, taking notes and playing back changes. This is a collaboration, not a delivery.
Festival specs, streaming platform requirements, stems and print masters, correct the first time. Delivery specs built and refined by a mixer across three decades of professional delivery.
Indie Sound Collective is not a loose network of freelancers. It is a division of Pure Sound Inc., a working New York audio post company with three decades of broadcast, film, and advertising delivery. Your contract, your supervision, and your final sign-off all live there.
Want to know exactly who you would be working with? Meet the team, see the credits, and get a feel for the company at Pure Sound.
Re-recording mixer, sound designer, and composer with over 30 years in New York audio post, mixing for broadcast, film, and the city's top advertising agencies. Author of "The Foundations of Audio Post Production."
Every ISC mix carries his sign-off before it ships. See Joe's credits on IMDb.
The studio practice where ISC projects are supervised, reviewed, and delivered. Thirty years of professional broadcast delivery standards, applied to independent film.
Filed like a cue sheet. Click any cue.
Because of the structure, not the standards. Legacy facilities carry midtown real estate, layers of staff, and overhead your budget pays for. Our bench is emerging professionals trained through APCA who are building their careers on real work, supervised by a veteran. You pay for craft and supervision, not marble lobbies. That is the honest answer, and we would rather you hear it from us.
No. Your film is led by a professional mixer who owns it end to end. The supporting team members have completed a 150-session curriculum and logged supervised hours on real projects before touching client work. And every mix passes a mandatory review by a 30-year re-recording mixer before final. Think teaching hospital, not classroom: attending physicians in the room, always.
You are in the room for the final mix, giving notes in real time, so surprises are rare. If something is not serving the film, we fix it. The supervision gate exists precisely so problems get caught before you ever hear them.
Whatever your distribution path requires: festival submission formats, streaming platform specs, broadcast loudness standards, stems, M&E, and print masters. Delivery templates are built and maintained by Pure Sound, so specs are correct the first time.
Same standards, different mission. Pure Sound is Joe Miuccio's studio practice serving broadcast, film, and advertising clients. Indie Sound Collective is the independent film arm: built to fit indie schedules and budgets, staffed by the APCA-trained bench, and supervised by Pure Sound. If your project needs Joe at the console personally, that is a Pure Sound conversation, and we will tell you so. Either way, start at puresoundpost.com to see the company behind everything we do.
Every decision, from a dialogue fix to a design flourish, is argued from the story. If it does not serve the film, it does not go in the mix.
Scope and price come out of the spotting session, in writing. Changes get discussed before they get billed.
Festival deadlines are not abstractions to us. We build the calendar backward from your submission date and hold it.
No jargon walls. We explain what we are doing and why, in plain language, so you can make real creative decisions.
Send a logline, a rough cut link if you have one, and your target dates. Your lead mixer, not a sales team, reads it and replies with next steps for a spotting session.