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 L&R 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!
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