SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

- Sound Supervision
- Sound Design
- Immersive, Surround & Stereo Mixing
- Sound Editing
- Dialogue & ADR Recording & Editing
- Voice-over Direction & Recording
- Foley Recording & Editing
- Music Direction & Production
- Music Editing
- Field Recording
- Audio Restoration
- Audio Implementation

SOFTWARE

- Avid Pro Tools HD expert user
- Ableton Live expert (certified trainer)
- Steinberg Nuendo / Reaper
- Fluent with most DAWs
- Izotope RX Audio Editor
- Soundminer Pro / Basehead
- Most VST, AU, TDM & AAX Plugins
- Audiokinetic Wwise
- FMOD Studio
- Unreal Engine 4
- Unity

Sound designer, re-recording mixer and field recordist with love for virtual reality, games, music and films.

Jef Aerts is a Sound Designer and Audio Professional with over 20 years of industry experience. He has been involved in numerous Games, Films, Broadcast, Music and Media projects.

He loves media that touches him in a very emotional and immersive way. He strongly believes that sound plays a big role in achieving this. He always strives to create the best audio experience in various media, whether it is Games, Films or Music.

Jef is currently working at Ubisoft as a senior sound designer. Besides this, he is available for freelance work.

Awards

Award for best Sound Design, Mutti, FantaSci Short Film Festival in 2020
Nominated for best Sound Design, Coca-Cola Zero Skyfall, CFP-Belgium 2012

HARDWARE

Fluent in using many different types of in-line, digital, hybrid and analogue mixing desks (Neve, Avid, Digidesign, Sony, Yamaha, Soundcraft, Makie etc), along with many different forms of studio and live outboard equipment e.g. pre-amps, compressors, samplers, etc. Excellent working knowledge of all types of microphones and various forms of field recorders (like Sound Devices, Sony, ...).