Multi-award-winning sound mixer, editor, sound supervisor/editor, and music producer/engineer with well over 25 years of experience across feature film, television, and music. Known for keeping a light, professional atmosphere under deadline pressure while ensuring collaborators feel their creative vision is in excellent hands. Experienced independent/freelance rerecording mixer and sound designer working across major studio facilities and his own studio, with extensive mastery of current recording and mixing technologies and a track record of strong, better-than-expected project outcomes.

Ken S. Polk

Multi-award-winning sound mixer, editor, sound supervisor/editor, and music producer/engineer with well over 25 years of experience across feature film, television, and music. Known for keeping a light, professional atmosphere under deadline pressure while ensuring collaborators feel their creative vision is in excellent hands. Experienced independent/freelance rerecording mixer and sound designer working across major studio facilities and his own studio, with extensive mastery of current recording and mixing technologies and a track record of strong, better-than-expected project outcomes.

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Multi-award-winning sound mixer, editor, sound supervisor/editor, and music producer/engineer with well over 25 years of experience across feature film, television, and music. Known for keeping a light, professional atmosphere under deadline pressure while ensuring collaborators feel their creative vision is in excellent hands.

Experienced independent/freelance rerecording mixer and sound designer working across major studio facilities and his own studio, with extensive mastery of current recording and mixing technologies and a track record of strong, better-than-expected project outcomes.

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Work Experience

PLEASE SEE RESUME - Rerecording Mixer / Sound Designer/ Producer/Voice Over Talent at Sound Solutions, Inc / MauiKat Music
December 31, 1999 - Present
PLEASE SEE RESUME FOR FURTHER DETAILS
Independent / Freelance Rerecording Mixer and Sound Designer at Sound Solutions
January 1, 1998 - Present
Independent/freelance rerecording mixer and sound designer performing work at major studio facilities and at his own studio. Completed projects for and/or at major companies including Warner Bros., Fox, MGM, Lionsgate, LakeShore, and others.
Rerecording Mixer at Warner Bros. Studios (Burbank/Hollywood, CA)
January 1, 1992 - January 1, 1998
Six-year contract engaged as rerecording mixer with extensive project credit list.
Music Producer / Engineer
January 1, 1984 - January 1, 2004
Over twenty years of experience as a music producer/engineer across film, television, and CD release projects, including work in locations such as Montreal, New York, San Francisco, and Maui.
Rerecording Mixer and Sound Designer at Glen Glenn Sound (Hollywood, CA / New York, NY)
January 1, 1984 - January 1, 1992
Eight-year contract providing rerecording mixing and sound design across television and feature film work.

Education

BFA at UCLA - School of Motion Picture/Television
December 31, 1989 - July 27, 2026

Qualifications

PLEASE SEE RESUME FOR DETAILS
July 27, 2026 - July 27, 2026
Voting Member: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
January 11, 2030 - July 27, 2026
Voting Member: Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
January 11, 2030 - July 27, 2026
Voting Member: The Recording Academy (NARAS)
January 11, 2030 - July 27, 2026
Voting Member: Cinema Audio Society (CAS)
January 11, 2030 - July 27, 2026
Motion Picture Editors Guild (Membership)
January 11, 2030 - July 27, 2026

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment