About Garrett:
Garrett is an award-winning sound designer, editor, and mixer based in Southern California who uses his critical ear and story-focused perspective to help make good stories sound great. His years-long industry experience, easy-going demeanor, and commitment to getting things right have lead him to work on numerous narrative projects in addition to documentary content with companies like PBS, Nike, PetSmart, Uninterrupted, Smithsonian Channel, PodCo, and more.
More about him:
Garrett’s interest with sound started from an early age and first presented itself through music. He has spent his life exploring music through writing songs, playing multiple instruments, and now music production and mixing. Alongside music, Garrett also spent a large portion of his life involved with theater. This reinforced his endless interest in storytelling more broadly, which him to explore this interest further at San Francisco State University.
Garrett’s areas of interest culminated in the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts department at SF State where he graduated with honors, was a member of CSB (College Students of Broadcasting), received a scholarship from the Bay Area Advertising Relief Counsel, was the recipient of the Award for Excellence in Audio Leadership for his graduating class, was nominated and won several awards for audio and radio from the department’s annual awards show, was the Production Director for one year and was then elected the General Manager the next year of KSFS (SF State’s radio station), and honed his technical crafts by mixing music, creating radio spots, performing live sound art on air, in addition to his focus sound designing, editing, and mixing several short films.
Keeping up his momentum, Garrett was hired as an assistant engineer at Polarity Post Production right out of college, where he set up and engineered voiceover sessions, edited and cleaned-up dialog, and learned industry-standard mixing practices. He also spent time at Dolby Labs as a listening test participant where he was able to contribute to research they were performing. At the same time, his burgeoning freelance workload lead him to seek more opportunities on his own, until he was able to establish GWPeters Audio.
Throughout the years, Garrett has worked on both long- and short-form narrative and documentary content. His diverse catalog of narrative work, spanning genres from sci-fi to drama to obscure comedy gives him a storytelling advantage. This varied experience provides a solid foundation on which each new project is built. His commitment to story and his technical expertise creating clear, impactful mixes, help Garrett make good stories sound great.
Testimonials:
“My collaboration with Garrett stretches back for several years. He has mixed hundreds of my projects and all of them leave his hands in better shape than when they arrived. I highly recommend Garrett to anyone looking for someone to mix, though perhaps I should rethink this because if he ever became unavailable, I would be in real trouble! In all seriousness, he's one of the most loyal, reliable, talented, and hardworking members of our team. I'm looking forward to working with him for many years to come.”
-Steve Goldbloom, Founder, Creative Director: Second Peninsula, Creator of Brief but Spectacular on PBS NewsHour; Executive Producer and Host of That Moment When
"Garrett and I have been collaborating for several years now. He's always my first choice to handle post sound on my projects because he's done nothing but crush every assignment given to him. He mixed and did sound design on my feature documentary, which was no small task, and he's also worked on numerous commercial projects of mine. In every case, Garrett's talent shined, and I was always 100% happy with the end result. Perhaps more importantly, Garrett's professionalism is second to none. He's kind, responsive, fast, efficient, accountable, and clever. Couldn't recommend him more!"
- Josh Freund, Director, Do U Want It?
"Garrett did a fantastic job with the sound design and mixing for Ghost in the Gun. He is extremely professional and was easy to work with. Early in the process, we discussed the tone of the film and what I was trying to go for. He then took it and ran with it, creating a luscious sound environment without requiring much direction. Garrett was very detailed oriented and added subtle background elements that I wouldn't have even thought of. He also worked very well with our composer to balance the sound design with the score. It's no surprise that the film won Best Sound Design from the New York Film Awards, FilmCon Awards, Los Angeles Film Awards, and New York Cinematography Awards."
- Andrew Chen, Director, Ghost in the Gun
"I had the pleasure of being Garrett's professor at SF State, and collaborated with him on several of my own productions as well. Garrett was a superb student and General Managers of KSFS Radio, but far more important is his notable passion and creative approach to whatever the work is at hand. His dedication and artistry are apparent in everything he takes on, and I will continue to seek his expertise and good attitude for my projects whenever I can."
-Jeff Jacoby, Sound & Radio Artist, Professor of Audio & Radio, SF State
"Garrett is a ProTools wizard. He can pull a stock gunshot file off Soundminer and make it sound like it was fired in a cathedral or a cave or a dusty old cabin. He also has a work ethic that'll put you to shame. In a few days, he amped the production value of my short ten-fold by making the monsters we couldn't afford to show on screen feel incredibly real and present, creating a truly immersive experience. He's committed to sound in all aspects and I can't recommend him enough."
-Ernie Houk, Screenwriter, Director
"The final product of Garrett's workflow isn't just polished, beautiful sound design - his work has consistently strengthened the entire soul of my films. I know I can trust him to bridge the gap between nuanced understanding of my vision, and the technical prowess to work magic with it."
-Daniel Washington, Writer, Director, Documentarian