Jay Rose

Sound designer Jay Rose was born in New York City in 1948, and grew up in that area. He went to college in Boston, fell in love with the city (and with a Boston girl), and has been there ever since... except for a brief foray to Ohio for grad school.

He's taught at Emerson College and Berklee College of Music, managed a classical music radio station, written ads and collateral for clients including Adobe, IBM, Bose, and Motorola, and designed software for some standard digital studio gear... but his first love has always been audio production. In fact, the first line of his resume says "My whole career has been about telling stories with sound, or telling stories about sound."

Jay currently works out of a fully-equipped, multi-room audio postproduction suite in his home... where his clients have included MGM, PBS, Turner, and CBS. But he also makes time to work with indie and low-budget documentary producers, when he likes the film and the subject.

Ask him to summarize his career, and he uses one word: "Lucky". He's been lucky to have some great mentors along the way (including Wavy Gravy and Dr. Tony Schwartz), and to have had a hand in every aspect of film production and audio engineering. He writes about sound for film and video as a way to pass along what he's learned.

Jay is a member of CAS and former section officer of AES. His tutorial articles are at www.JayRose.com, and his latest book is at www.GreatSound.info.