PES 168: Pascal Wyse - Composer, Sound Designer, Mixer

<p>My awesome guest is <a href="http://pascalwyse.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pascal Wyse</a>! He does sound design, mixing and musical composition for <a href= "http://timharford.com/articles/cautionarytales/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cautionary Tales</a> (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.</p> <p>Here's a fraction of what we discussed:</p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keeps different cues in different DAW sessions. (Some folks write their music in Logic and then ProTools has the main session)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">For creating atmosphere/space:</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Altiva Convolution reverb</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mixes on speakers, and for final pass he monitors on headphones. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Genelec 1029 with Genelec Subwoofer</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT990’s</span></li> <li><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Microphones: </span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sennheiser MKH range mics, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">DPA Lavalier mics (tiny, can get them into extraordinary places)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Double mid-side!!! </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parabolic mic, mounted inside a satellite dish thingy, the most isolated sound you can get!</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Field recorders: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.sonosax.ch/product/sx-r4p/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer">Sonosax</a> (swiss company, light, clean pre