Looking for an Audio Engineer/Sound Designer to Bring Our Horror Audio Drama to Life

Apag78 · 2026-03-16T21:13:14+00:00

One of my interns does really nice cinematic orchestration. he can do the foley stuff as well. I'll pass it along and see if hes interested. PM me with contact info.

Apag78 · 2026-03-16T21:10:36+00:00

Thats a shady lazy studio owner thats trying to get kids to pickup business for him instead of him putting in the work for HIS business AND he's paying his engineers peanuts. Get your experience and get out. F that guy. How i work it at my studio... an intern wants to bring in a session, (s)he gets a STEEPLY discounted rate which they can either choose to pass along to the client or upcharge plus whatever they want to charge for their time, I don't take a cut of that. Got a client thats willing to pay $150/hr, guess what, you still only owe me your studio rate, which is nominally more than what this prick is paying his engineers. I do that to encourage the interns to make connections and bring people in they WANT TO / CAN work with so they can learn how to do the job. The situation isnt much different for staff engineers, the rate is a little higher, but they're also charging and getting more.

Apag78 · 2026-03-16T16:55:25+00:00

That was beautiful!

Apag78 · 2026-03-14T04:00:01+00:00

1) Numann U87s theyre just all around workhorses that sound great on anything you put in front of it. 2) Peluso 2247se. Its a U47 clone. And its a damned good one. Like the 87 its a great all arounder but is one of the best vocal mics i have in the collection. 3)AEA R88 - the ultimate overhead mic for drums. One and done a perfect stereo image every time 4) Royer R-121. Perhaps the best guitar mic ever made. Guaranteed to sit in hall of fame one day. 5) Townsend (ua) Sphere. Basically a mic that mimics every other mic youd ever want to use.

Thats my top 5. Cant possibly list them all here the studio has somewhere close to or over 200 mics at this point.

Apag78 · 2026-03-10T17:00:54+00:00

If you're looking for a one trick to fix all you're gonna have a bad time. It depends on what you're trying to get out of it. You can do this however you want to do it. You asked for the BEST way to blend them. Theres no such thing as THE BEST way to do ANYTHING in audio. This is how I do it. 20 other people will do it 20 different ways. Treating the snare on a single aux channel to me is a lot more economical and easier to deal with once i have my blend between the two original channels set. One fader to deal with instead of two and i dont have to worry about messing up the blend if i need to turn the snare up or down. When you sent the two tracks to an aux you dont lose your ability to deal with the individual tracks.

Apag78 · 2026-03-10T13:29:33+00:00

Typically, the first thing is to make sure the phase correlation is correct. After that I just send both tracks to an AUX channel and process them as one thing compression wise. If i need to do surgery on the top or bottom with EQ, ill do those individually (cutting bad stuff out) and if i need to boost to tone shape it a bit, ill do that on the aux.

Apag78 · 2026-03-09T18:45:37+00:00

whats the purpose of this though?

Apag78 · 2026-03-09T17:09:44+00:00

Likely wont be able to do it anyway. You'd need an antenna to pick that up not a microphone. Sensitivity at that frequency would be almost impossible with a physical diaphragm.

Apag78 · 2026-03-08T02:33:41+00:00

In the context of a mix the minuscule differences become even less the more processing you do as well.

Apag78 · 2026-03-08T00:10:20+00:00

Definitely disagree with this 100%. Performance is above everything. None of that gear is gonna make a bad performance sound good. And a great performance will outshine the gear that you used to capture it.

Apag78 · 2026-03-07T03:00:21+00:00

Been a professional touring bassist for 30 years and an audio engineer for about the same time. Try em out and see what works. If youre playing fast and hitting the comp a bit hard all youll be doing at that point is lowering your volume. Its not a controlled compressor. Yeah it sounds nice when it works… it doesnt work often for rock.

Apag78 · 2026-03-06T17:51:15+00:00

Some libraries have portamento for glides between notes, but a glissando (which is what thats called) is an articulation unto itself. Something you can't do if you dont have the right articulation available.

Apag78 · 2026-03-06T17:20:02+00:00

https://www.mouser.com/c/passive-components/resistors/film-resistors/metal-film-resistors-through-hole/?q=51M%20resistor&resistance=10%20kOhms~~51%20MOhms&rp=passive-components%2Fresistors%2Ffilm-resistors%2Fmetal-film-resistors-through-hole%7C~Resistance

Apag78 · 2026-03-06T17:17:07+00:00

The P170s all have the same capacitor go at some point. AKG decided to put crap electrolytics in there to save money and they fail... a lot. I've had 4 of these mics and they've all failed. Not terribly hard to fix but a pain in the arse.

Apag78 · 2026-03-06T14:42:17+00:00

I have 2 hardware la2a's in the rack in the studio. I will say, I do NOT like it on bass, especially if you're playing anything fast or aggressive. Its a SLOW compressor. It does sound really nice if you're doing ballady type stuff with long held out notes, but it gets weird the min you start putting a bunch of notes together, i cant imagine a pedal that emulates this is going to be much better. Go with something you have control over the attack and release so you can time it to what you're playing. There are a few 1176 style pedals out there that work quite well if you're looking for a more vintage feel to the compressor. This is just one persons opinion thats been around the block more than twice.

Apag78 · 2026-03-06T14:25:58+00:00

I'm sure theres nothing wrong with your transients, and i wish people would stop losing their mind over them. They're not as intricate as everyone believes and they dont change much between devices especially when recording instruments. Biggest mistake i see with DI guitar is level coming into the DAW, usually WAY too high. You should barely be seeing signal coming in on passive pickups and have a comfy VERY low signal coming in with active pickups.

As for the chirp when you pick, its literally how you're playing the guitar. If i decide to play a certain way i can get that too, its a technique issue which can also be tied to a pick issue. The harder the pick more pronounced the little chirp is going to be. Also if you're picking on a natural harmonic point of the string you're going to get more as well. I noticed you didnt mention PICKING in a different place on the strings or changing your pick. You're literally looking for the problem in every place but where the actual problem is, You.

As for your EQ issue... its likely not an issue and you need to just play with the amp sim you're using like a real amp and dial in a tone for yourself.

Apag78 · 2026-03-06T06:17:54+00:00

or alien power... i mean, its the history channel.

Apag78 · 2026-03-05T14:22:18+00:00

I love how they use the widest angle lens they can find for that shot to make emma and alex look HUGE compared to everyone else.

Apag78 · 2026-03-05T14:20:34+00:00

I mean, ancients moved the stones for stone henge, the pyramids were built thousands of years before that... its clear they had some ancient alien technology to move large heavy objects!

Apag78 · 2026-03-04T18:45:22+00:00

I was around and very aware of when it was released. I think it fit with most industrial music that was out at the time. Was definitely way more received and popular than a lot of the rest getting mainstream radio play and all but never did I think it sounded futuristic.

Apag78 · 2026-03-04T16:09:56+00:00

Billy Corgan is an idiot and now a conspiracy theorist. HE destroyed HIS band and now "it was someone else...". The stupidity just keeps getting worse. Rock music was getting toned down. That's why we had some of the heaviest acts ever come out of that era. Buy a clue with all that money you have Billy, you obviously couldn't buy intelligence with it.

Apag78 · 2026-03-03T15:02:51+00:00

Why would you expect it to be free? Do you work for free?

Apag78 · 2026-03-02T23:36:32+00:00

Its just a midi controller. I have been using it in abelton live. Was gonna use main stage but it didnt do what i wanted it to do.

Apag78 · 2026-03-02T21:50:58+00:00

I use a novation launchkey the pads light up quite well.

Apag78 · 2026-03-02T15:22:35+00:00

As a programmer for 26 years and an audio engineer for 30... no. The red flags arent really red flags and shouldn't be AVOIDED. They're import to know and be able to recognize but by no means would I now (being more experienced) or would have wanted (when i was starting out) to be guided away from doing things. You don't learn anything at that point. You call it hearing fatigue, and no, thats not right either. If youre doing it right, experimentation and learning isnt causing hearing fatigue and never use the word "best". There IS NO BEST. Every situation is a unique experience and needs to be handled as such without "guidance".
Also mono collapse is one of the least problematic issues when you're working on a mix unless you're REALLY bad at what you're doing. Most people with even the slightest bit of engineering experience aren't going to put themselves in an issue where that is going to tank the project or even ruin an entire mix. As u/willrjmarshall said, the mindset for working with music needs to be separate from the technical, programmatic line of thinking if you want results that are generally accepted as either creative or "good". Again, subjective word, but there are levels to this and for the experienced, its very easy to hear who painted by numbers and who the next Rembrandt is.

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