Location Sound Packages

Here is how this works in practice. We assemble complete location sound packages. Sound Devices and Zaxcom recorder-mixers, wireless transmitter and receiver sets, boom microphones, lavaliers, comms and tracking — from Dutch rental vendors in the Amsterdam and Rotterdam production clusters, sized to a documentary single, a commercial day or a full drama unit. Our team integrates the whole chain so the mixer arrives to a coherent kit rather than a box of parts.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Pro sound hardware not held in-country moves freely by road from neighbouring Germany and Belgium under the EU single market, with no carnet needed for intra-EU transport, and hire from Dutch vendors counts as qualifying spend under the 35% Netherlands Film Production Rebates administered by the Netherlands Film Fund.

Here is the short of it. A location sound package has to suit where it will work. The wireless elements run on EU-harmonised UHF range set up through the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (Rijksinspectie Digitale Infrastructuur / RDI), so we plan frequency allocation across mics, IFB and comms before the shoot — key in dense RF environments like central Amsterdam. The temperate maritime climate brings persistent wind and rain: the flat, open polders and the North Sea coast give no shelter from the wind, so each package ships with full wind protection and rain covers as standard, and we plan condensation control for kit moving between cold exteriors and warm interiors.

Amsterdam's canal ring, with its narrow streets and bridges, shapes how a sound cart is staged and moved. For non-EU shoots, ATA Carnets clear through Dutch Customs (Douane) at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.