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IdentityAbhinav Patankar is an experienced professional, dedicated AV technician, who started his sound engineering career by studying at one of the premier sound institutes. Having being top of his class, he became the youngest head of department to lead one of India’s leading live music venue brands, blueFROG Pune. Abhinav is a recurring visiting faculty member at some of the best sound engineering schools in India.
Currently Abhinav is the FoH engineer for DIVINE(HipHop), GULLY GANG(HipHop), AsWeKeepSearching(Post Rock), Hari&Suhkmani, the Punjabi folktronica duo, and Across Seconds, a Bombay based post rock act. He is also currently working with a theatre production called "UMRAO JAAN ADA". He is also the system engineer for the ‘Outline’s flagship model GTO’ and ‘DnB’s V series’ in Gujarat and ‘Meyer Sound’s Leopard’ in Pune.
Abhinav has travelled extensively for live sound engineering. Some of the countries he has visited are United Kingdom, Azerbaijan, Oman, Dubai, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia. The festivals that Abhinav has worked on and successfully mixed at are as follows:
The Grub Fest
Timeout 72
Wonderflip Music Festival
Vh1 Supersonic Music Festival(2016-20)
Taalbelia
Fangirl
NH7 Weekender(Pune&Shillong) (2014-20)
Hornbill Festival
Abhinav has been nominated by the prestigious Indian Recording Arts Academy at the IRAA Awards at Palm Expo 2016 for the category “Best Live Sound Engineer”.
