Billy Mantani

05/28/2025

“You don’t have to live long, you just have to LIVE!” - Allison Gordon 2025

06/17/2024

iPhone. 🤯.

05/24/2024

MDW starting off proper. Made friends with the facilities manager at City Winery Hudson Valley and he hooked us up with water and a dope parking spot for the day and gave us a personal tour of the grounds before they opened. Yes, please and thank you. Let the wknd begin.

04/03/2024

We can’t really describe it, but the North East just feels like home. Not at all knocking our time out West. We had some amazing times and made some incredible friends, but we’re home now. ❤️

02/17/2024

Home.

01/24/2024

“Let No 1 discourage you”

01/16/2024

Our first decent snow in Brooklyn. ❤️

11/10/2023

Simple and beautiful at studios. 🎧 🎤🎬🎼

10/12/2023

08/25/2023

First free concert in the park with The Head and The Heart ❤️.

08/15/2023

Thanks for the snap from one of my last shoots out in Tucson. It’s always fun recording some desert ambience during some downtime on set. I’ll miss the quiet and calm of the desert for sure. Most of my sound battles during interviews were the birds 😂. Now I’m battling sirens and car horns 🤣. 🎧 🎥 🌵

07/27/2023

NEARD ALERT! 🤓

I finally finished setting up my custom Protogear bag for my Zaxcom Nova 2 just the way I like it and I thought I would share. Big thanks to Simon Audio Workbench for working with me on turning the feather rig upside down. When I started using the Nova here in AZ I learned quickly how hot it got. With the bag being so light it was naturally very thin and, needless to say, made my stomach sweat A LOT when I was wearing it in the harness 🤣🤣🤮. So, I thought about switching around the feather rig to bring the nova away from my body and put two batteries there. I love it. They are hot swappable and now I can run for longer periods of time. It also helped to bring the encoders further away which I feel is a better position for getting my fat hands in there to mix haha. Granted, I can do all of this because I use a slightly different setup than most users.

I am using Lectrosonics, Inc. DCHT camera hop and a SMWB in 941 for my IFB TX. I like using these as their tx range can be setup beyond the Zaxcom band THAT I am using (.5). Glenn was kind enough to make me a custom FPD2 filter for my DCHT so that I am filtered out even below the usable zaxcom range. I’m using the DCHT from 470-505. That with the SMWB in 941 and my TX is nicely out of the way of my RX. At least for now. Now that we’re moving to NYC next week, we’ll see where everything lands, but I can always take the FPD2 off the DCHT and use it where I need to.

I think that’s about it haha. Let me know if you have any questions!