René Coronado: Sound Designer and Audio Engineer – PES 103

My guest is René Coronado – audio engineer, sound designer at Dallas Audio Post Group, and cohost of the Tonebenders Podcast.

Enjoy this awesome episode; we discussed:

• Speed Round #1 for his Tonebenders Podcast: Shure SM7B, Sound Devices MixPre-3, Skype, record onto SD Card, ProTools, Soundcloud.
• Speed Round #2 for his work at Dallas Audio Post (Control Room A): Avid C24 Controller, Genelec monitors, ProTools, computers are in a separate machine room, AT 4050 (workhorse), TLM 103, U87, MKH 50 and 416.
• Wave Rider (from Quiet Art) on the voices, aims at -25 dB RMS using averaging mode
• EQ, Compression, Master compressor
• The room where works is calibrated for -23 LUFS so he knows what that sounds like.
• Bounce the mix into RX6 Loudness to -18 LUFS stereo, then back into ProTools for encoding the MP3.
• Field recording: Line Audio CM3
• Studio recording (Voiceovers, etc)
• Sound design techniques
• Track layouts
• Separate chains – dialogue, voiceover
• Soundminer – sound fx software program, tagged with metadata so the sounds are easily searchable.
• Mixing plugins: ProTools channel strip, Sound Particles, Twisted Sound “whoosh,” using distortion to bring up mids (20% distortion), Native Instruments delay called Replika.

I also asked René: “What advice do you have for podcast engineers and producers?” Listen for his answer 😉

Thank you for being a great guest, René!

Comment below with any questions or comments.

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