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Max Collins

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hi, i'm max (any pronouns), a sound designer and audio producer based in Toronto, Canada. if you need well-designed soundscapes, thoughtful scriptwriting, pointed interviewing, and/or detailed file management with a timely turnaround, i'm your person.
Member since 2022

Location

  • Toronto, ON, Canada

Contact Max

Max is available for

i'm available for most aspects of podcasting - producing, reporting, script-writing, field recording, etc. i am most interested in post-production at the moment, e.g. sound design for fiction and non-fiction/documentary and editing.
  • Editing
  • Engineering
  • Producing
  • Recording
  • Reporting
  • Scripting
  • Voice
  • Writing
  • Other
  • Teaching

About Max

Hello, I'm max. Thanks for visiting my AIR profile. 

I'm a sound designer, radio producer and podcaster born in Calgary, AB, Canada. My background in campus and community radio gives me a unique perspective on storytelling. Right now, I'm using that perspective to make compelling, high-production-value podcasts for brands, newsrooms, and creative firms. In the nine years I've been in the radio industry, the projects I've worked on have received nods from the Ambie awards, the Webby Awards, the Signal awards, the iHeart Radio Awards, and more.

I take a keen interest in recounting niche stories in digestable pieces. My reporting on alternative queer culture has won accolades on the national level, and my work has been written about in the New York TimesThe New YorkerVultureIndieWire, Psychology TodaySAD Magazine, The Vancouver Sun, and other local publications.

When I'm not too busy designing soundscapes or writing scripts, I'm teaching other people about how to make great audio. I've presented to students at the University of Victoria, I've guest-hosted a workshop with Bad Academy, and I've instructed a course for the NCRA Podcast School, among others.

I like to swim, and I'm learning how to skateboard. I just moved to Toronto, ON from Vancouver, BC, and I love my new city.

Max's Portfolio

Experience

Skills

  • Mixing
  • Voice Coaching
  • Tape Syncs
  • Story Editing
  • Sound Design
  • Scrubbing and Audio Editing
  • Research
  • Reporting
  • Producing
  • Interviewing
  • Hosting
  • Field Recording
  • Field Producing
  • Audio Engineering

Equipment

  • Zoom H5 recorder
  • Shure VP64A omnidirectional microphone
  • Sennheiser shotgun microphone
  • Zoom H1N recorder
  • Adobe Creative Suite (proficient in Audition, Photoshop, Premiere)

Previous Work

  • Senior Audio Editor, Producer at Kelly&Kelly Creative