PES 168: Pascal Wyse - Composer, Sound Designer, Mixer
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Publication Date |
Feb 06, 2020
Episode Duration |
01:32:02

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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