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My awesome guest is Pascal Wyse! He does sound design, mixing and musical composition for Cautionary Tales (podcast). He wrote the theme tune for Folsom Untold - an Audible series about Johnny Cash’s prison gig, and also did sound design for that. And among many other credits, he also worked on Haunted for Panoply. Here's a fraction of what we discussed: Keeps different cues in different DAW sessions. (Some folks write their music in Logic and then ProTools has the main session) Reaper sub-projects: Opens up as a tab - another working session, the same length as the Master session, when you save it renders and inserts it into the Master session.  For creating atmosphere/space: Altiva Convolution reverb Mixes on speakers, and for final pass he monitors on headphones.  Genelec 1029 with Genelec Subwoofer Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT990’s Microphones: Sennheiser MKH range mics, DPA Lavalier mics (tiny, can get them into extraordinary places) Double mid-side!!!  Parabolic mic, mounted inside a satellite dish thingy, the most isolated sound you can get! Field recorders: Sonosax (swiss company, light, clean preamps), Aaton Cantar X3, used to use Sound Devices stuff. He's very into field recording He uses Sonarworks Fabfilter plugins - EQ, compressor,  Waves Scheps 73 EQ iZotope RX Tim Harford’s voice processing for Cautionary Tales: No cleanup, Fabfilter Pro Q-3, Fabfilter C-2 (Pro Voice preset which uses parallel compression), Vocal Rider (He fed the sidechain with the background music! Stopped the feeling of a sound being crushed and not coming through.) For voice actors: AudioEase - “Indoor” plugin (sounds realistic, panned LaR a little bit), Speakerphone plugin Convolution reverb: Engineers have gone into a space and recorded the response of the actual space.  Parabolic mics: https://www.telinga.com Schoeps mics: https://schoeps.de/en.html DPA mics: https://www.dpamicrophones.com Mixing with Mike: https://www.mixingwithmike.com Amazing sound recordist Chris Watson: https://chriswatson.net Workflow for Cautionary Tales:  Table read Tim will record his parts, he will read in actor lines Receives files (REALLY likes it when they get CLEAN dialogue takes, so he doesn’t have to stress over that aspect of production) Brings files into DAW, makes markers where he might want to put things,  Put in theme music Some library sounds here and there What worlds are people in and do we need to hear that world?  Uses “mastering” effects Sends out the mix Gets feedback and makes changes Thanks for being a great guest, Pascal! DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you, so please comment below with any questions or remarks. We appreciate you listening. Want to Start a Business or Have a Career as a Podcast Producer/Engineer? Listen and Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn, Android, RSS, Email