In this Tonebenders Podcast, hosts René Coronado & Tim Muirhead and 3 guests discuss Dolby Atmos for the rest of us. We all know about the likes of Skywalker Ranch, Warner Brothers and Sony and what they are doing with big feature films in Dolby Atmos. But the aim of this discussion is to explore working on Dolby Atmos on smaller projects, in both smaller rooms and smaller facilities, as the result of the growth in OTT publishers like Netflix and Amazon, creating content in Atmos.

For this podcast, René and Tim are joined by 3 guests, Korey Pereira, Glenn Eanes and Nicole Auringer all of whom are all just getting started with working in Dolby Atmos. Having had to figure out Dolby Atmos on their own, without the benefit of a comprehensive tech staff that comes with bigger facilities, they discuss the mistakes they have made, the lessons they have learnt and share some of the tricks they have discovered.

More About The 3 Guests

Korey Pereira is the owner and creative director of Soularity Sound, a small post-production company based in Austin, Texas. Kory works on everything from student films to features to immersive audio and he is in the final stages of upgrading his space for Dolby Atmos.

“I’ve worked on Linkletter’s last four films, we do a lot of TV and some really cool independent films. On top of that, when I’m not working in film, I’m actually teaching over the University of Texas this last semester. I’ve also taught down at Texas State University as a guest lecturer.”

Nicole Auringer is soon to be a graduate of Texas State University’s sound recording technology program. She freelances as a location and post-production mixer on various student films and indie films. She’s written and directed two of her own short films, which are about to be mixed in Dolby Atmos for her capstone project.

“I tend to write dramas so they’re kind of little short dramas. And luckily, my professor at our studio is very on top of the game, so he installed Dolby Atmos. So I’m very lucky to get the opportunity to learn to mix while I’m in school in Dolby Atmos, so that’s incredible.”

In addition to editing and mixing sound and many narrative and documentary features, Glenn Eanes has served as the re-recording mixer on well over 100 episodes of TV.

”I work primarily out of Soundcrafter, even though I do some freelance stuff on my own. Our reality TV docu-reality kind of shows, Sports shows, fat people shows, those kinds of things. But I’ve also done narrative films and documentary work and things like that. I primarily am a recording mixer and Foley mixer.”

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