SoundWorks Collection

This week we talk with Audio Director/Sound Designer Ben Minto who leads the sound team at the Stockholm based EA DICE studio. Ben has worked on such game titles as BLACK, Burnout, Battlefield (1943, Heroes, Bad Company), Mirror’s Edge, Medal of Honor, and the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront project.

This week we talk with rock guitarist Joe Perry of Aerosmith about his new autobiography "Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith". Rocks is an unusually searching memoir of a life that spans from the top of the world to the bottom of the barrel—several times. It is a study of endurance and brotherhood, with Perry providing remarkable candor about Tyler, as well as new insights into their powerful but troubled relationship. It is an insider’s portrait of the rock and roll family, featuring everyone from Jimmy Page to Alice Cooper, Bette Midler to Chuck Berry, John Belushi to Al Hirschfeld.

This week we sit down with veteran music producer Jack Douglas to talk about his beginnings in New York as a music engineer and producer and later working on mega rock albums with Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, New York Dolls, and John Lennon.

In this weeks episode we talk with the BOOM Library group which was founded in 2010 by award winning audio guys from Dynamedion, the biggest European game audio studio based in Mainz, Germany. The BOOM Library prides itself on providing high end, ultimate sound effects for all media and audio professionals. Our products have this specific edge you will not find anywhere else: every collection comes with a 96 KHz high definition, huge source library of our original recordings + a great variety of designed SFX, ready to use.

This week we talk with the sound and music team behind the film GET ON UP starring Chadwick Boseman as James Brown in this biopic from Director Tate Taylor (The Help). We talk with Re-recording Mixer Scott Millan and Music Production Supervisor Curt Sobel about the music that is featured in the film and the work that was required to prepare a wide range of archival recordings for the big screen.

Idaho based sound recordist Frank Bry has been featuring his sound effects libraries with the online community since 1998 when he launched therecordist.com. We spoke with Frank to hear more about his early projects as a Audio Director working on the Emulator III digital sampler and how he transitioned into becoming a passionate and committed recordist and sound effects library company.

Bay Area based engineer and producer Chris Dugan talks with the SoundWorks Collection about his road to Jingle Town Studios. We talk about his journey as a small studio owner to recording the grammy winning Green Day album American Idiot. Chris also talks about an unreleased Green Day holiday album and his perspective on recording albums with different size budgets.

This week we spoke with John Midgley who is the production sound mixer on the film The Imitation Game Directed by Morten Tyldum. The Imitation Game stars Benedict Cumberbatch who portrays Alan Turing who is a British mathematician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist who was a key figure in cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code, which helped the Allies win the Second World War. The film was shot over 9 weeks in various locations around England and we discuss the wide range of gear John uses while working with this talented ensemble.

Go behind the scenes of "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere", the new film from Director Scott Cooper. We are joined today by production sound mixer Todd Maitland, composer Jeremiah Frates, Re-recording Mixer and Supervising Sound Editor David Giammarco, and Supervising Sound Editor Eric Norris.We discuss shaping the film’s sonic identity — from capturing live vocals on set, recreating Springsteen’s iconic studio environments, and blending Jeremy Allen White’s performances with Bruce’s original recordings, to using silence, heartbeat motifs, and era-specific gear like the Echoplex and the TEAC 114 tape recorder.Hear firsthand stories about filming at The Stone Pony, recording in the legendary Power Station, navigating the emotional father–son finale, and exploring Springsteen’s creative process through sound.