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Ask the Experts – FOH Mixing for Live Music
2021-06-30 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online via Zoom
What does a FOH Engineer do?
Simply put: Each individual instrument on stage has its own microphone and input, from the lead singer all the way down to the individual drums and cymbals on the drum kit. The FOH Engineer manipulates the levels and equalization of the various instruments and vocals blending them together, adding reverb and effects as needed, to produce a mix of the band which is amplified through the PA system.
The level of creativity and freedom a FOH Engineer has with the mix varies from artist to artist. Sometimes a band or artist has a clear vision of what they want to sound like live. It is the FOH Engineers’ job to interpret and re-create this via the sound system. Sometimes a band leaves their sound entirely up to the FOH Engineer.
It is usually up to the FOH Engineer to decide or at least recommend what microphones to use on each instrument and vocal. On large tours, the FOH Engineer provides a technical spec of what the sound system requirements are. This generally reflects their preferences in microphones, mixing console, outboard gear, plug-ins, PA system, etc… and any other details pertaining to how the system should be set up.
Join SoundGirls for a webinar on FOH Mixing for Live Music. This is your opportunity to ask questions and get them answered with this expert panel. Moderated by Grace Royse and panelists include Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato, Bryony October, Dana Wachs, Amanda Davis, and Fela Davis
June 30, 2021 – 11 AM – 1 PM PDT / 2 PM – 4 PM EDT

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Moderated By Grace Royse
Grace Royse has clocked nearly two decades and thousands of festivals, tours, and live broadcast performances as FOH engineer, Tour manager and production manager. Her experiences span a variety of large-scale events including the US Open, Good Morning America, Ellen, and the Super bowl. Her mixing credits range from Pop to Punk with such artists as Ms. Lauryn Hill, Sublime with Rome, The Offspring, Pennywise, Cypress Hill, 311, Dirtyheads, Kygo & a roster of artists for Sony Music Group and Fat Wreck Chords. With a concentration in production management. “I’ve been on both sides of the event experience; touring with headlining A-level artists globally, as well as hosting artists as the Festivals point person and on-site Production Lead. Understanding the needs of both sides gives me an exceptional operational vantage point.” Grace credits her network of top-performing colleagues, along with a strong sense of purpose, for making every successful project possible. You can catch up with Grace by visiting her website at https://www.gracemusic.biz or on Instagram @gracemusic

Panelist Include
Michelle Sabolchick-Pettinato
Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato began working in live sound in the late 1980s and has spent most of the past 30 years as a full time touring FOH Engineer for major label artists including Elvis Costello, Gwen Stefani, Janet Jackson, Goo Goo Dolls, Melissa Etheridge, Jewel, Kesha, Styx, Mr Big and many more. Michelle has extensive experience mixing in venues of all shapes and sizes, from clubs to stadiums, as well as major music festivals from Download to Coachella. She has also supervised and mixed live performances on a wide variety of television from SNL to the Grammys.
Michelle is co-founder of Soundgirls, a Full Sail University Hall of Fame inductee, and creator of MixingMusicLive.com where she teaches an intro to live sound and mixing. She is an active mentor and coach to those seeking a career in Live Sound and Music Production and is frequently sought out as a panelist and guest speaker for industry conferences and universities.

Bryony October
Bryony October is a Brighton (UK) based FOH sound engineer who has been touring for nearly 25 years. She started mixing FOH sound in her late teens having garnered all her experience and knowledge exclusively on tour off the back of various merchandise selling and backline jobs. With extensive experience mixing live sound often in conjunction with tour/production management she has worked with a huge range of artists across a wide spectrum of musical styles and has mixed FOH sound at every level worldwide. A very hands-on sound engineer, she is not afraid of getting her hands dirty and is always keen to help bands/artists develop their live sound from source and bring consistency to their sound.
Bryony is currently FOH engineer for multi-platinum selling singer Katie Melua, and the UK’s No.1 female country duo, Ward-Thomas, as well as UK FOH engineer & TM for Natalie Merchant and Lloyd Cole.
Fela Davis
Fela is a graduate of Full Sail University’s Recording Arts Program and inducted into the University’s Hall of Fame 2019 class for her work in audio engineering. Her background as a FOH engineer spans 20 years with her last seven mixing seven-time Grammy award winner Christian McBride’s bands all over the world! She’s currently a writer for Pro Sound News Magazine and co-owner of One of One Productions podcast studio located 5 minutes outside of NYC in Fort Lee, NJ. Her clients include Atlantic Records, SiriusXM, Eboni K. Williams, and more!
Dana Wachs
A Brooklyn-based Audio Engineer, Tour Manager, and Composer/Musician. Dana started her career in music in 1994, as bass player for the Dischord band Holy Rollers, which ignited her interest in live sound, after a national tour supporting 7 Year Bitch. Her first foray into the practice of live sound began after that at the Black Cat DC, and later the infamous 9:30 club.
Dana’s first national tour was as TM/FOH for Peaches supporting Queens of the Stone Age in 2002. Her first International tour quickly followed in 2003 with Cat Power. Since then, touring has kept her on the road 9 to 11 months out of the year with bands such as MGMT, St. Vincent, M.I.A., Grizzly Bear, Foster the People, Nils Frahm, Deerhunter, and Jon Hopkins to name a few.
Outside of touring, Dana composes and performs under the name Vorhees, with two releases on Styles Upon Styles (Brooklyn), and is currently composing her first feature film score.
Amanda Davis
Amanda is a woman of many talents. The Memphis-born, LA-based audio engineer, educator, production manager, singer and musician has learned the ropes from some of the music industry’s best and is using her skills and connections to empower women around the globe.
Amanda has mixed legendary artists Prince and Stevie Wonder and has mixed in some of the world’s most renowned venues and events: The White House; Madison Square Garden; Radio City Music Hall; The Hollywood Bowl; Coachella; The Grammys; The Oscars; Glastonbury Fest; Good Morning America; The Today Show; Montreux Jazz Festival; Saturday Night Live; BET Awards; and American Idol.

Overview of Career Opportunities at Clair Global
2021-07-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Clair Global’s history in the live events and permanent installation industries influences a culture of incredibly hard-working professionals ready to solve the next impossible problem.

Clair strives to exceed expectations through integrity, innovation, attention to detail, and unyielding customer service worldwide. Extraordinary employees are our differentiator. Our employees’ creativity, talents, problem-solving skills and commitment to service set us apart. You don’t join the Clair team to just work, you join the Clair team to realize your life’s work. Every event, every product, every promise has our team imprint on it. Put simply, we care.

Join us for a webinar on the Career Opportunities at Clair Global and the skills needed.. This is your opportunity to get your questions answered about working at Clair Global with Dave Lester and moderated by Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato. Women leaders at Clair Global will be joining us.
July 21 at 11 AM PDT – Register and Post Questions Here
Moderated Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato
Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato began working in live sound in the late 1980s and has spent most of the past 30 years as a full time touring FOH Engineer for major label artists including Elvis Costello, Gwen Stefani, Janet Jackson, Goo Goo Dolls, Melissa Etheridge, Jewel, Kesha, Styx, Mr Big and many more. Michelle has extensive experience mixing in venues of all shapes and sizes, from clubs to stadiums, as well as major music festivals from Download to Coachella. She has also supervised and mixed live performances on a wide variety of television from SNL to the Grammys.
Michelle is co-founder of Soundgirls, a Full Sail University Hall of Fame inductee, and creator of MixingMusicLive.com where she teaches an intro to live sound and mixing. She is an active mentor and coach to those seeking a career in Live Sound and Music Production and is frequently sought out as a panelist and guest speaker for industry conferences and universities.
Dave Lester – Director Education & Safety Clair Global

Dave recruits and hires new employees and develops and manages educational material/content for Clair Global’s formal training program reflecting current audio technology trends, company proprietary equipment, general audio knowledge requirements, and safety. Dave educates new hires employees to raise their skill set and knowledge to meet company and client expectations.

Ask the Experts – Film & TV Sound Supervisor
2021-07-26 11:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
What does a Supervising Sound Editor (Film and TV) do?
After filming has wrapped, sound effects have been added, the music recorded or licensed, and all cuts and changes have been approved, a movie enters the production stage called picture lock. That’s when the supervising sound editor begins the painstaking process of fashioning a final soundtrack from a film’s many sonic components. These include production sound (the dialogue and ambient noises captured during shooting), foley (reproduced sounds), ADR (automated dialogue replacement), walla (crowd noises), sound effects, and music.
While supervising sound editors may do a certain amount of editing themselves, their primary job is to oversee the work of a full team of dialogue editors, sound effects editors, and music editors, ensuring that post-production sound stays on schedule.
Once the effects and dialogue are pristine and perfectly situated within the film, the supervising sound editor stitches them together with the composer’s score and the music supervisor’s song selections, creating a complete sound experience to accompany the moving picture. The work is done using a DAW (digital audio workstation), which stores all the sounds in separate files and allows the editor to synchronize each one with particular frames in the film. When the sound editor’s job is finished, the completed soundtrack is sent off to a re-recording mixer to be balanced and mastered, a process for which the supervising sound editor is likely to be present.
Join us for a webinar with Katy Wood, Onnalee Blank, Marla McGuire, and Lauren Stephens on July 26 at 11 AM PDT
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Moderated By Katie Pagacz
Katie is a sound student, recently getting into the realm of audio post-production for film and television at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. She’s heading into her final year of the Honours Bachelor of Film and Television program.
While Katie has gone through dozens of phases and considered many career paths—singer/songwriter, tattoo artist, pastry chef, makeup artist, comedian, anesthesiologist, and so much more!—she is delighted to have been bitten by the audio bug and is determined to follow this whole thing through to the end, hoping to someday be a Supervising Sound Editor on feature films.
A few assignments during her third year of studies had led Katie to interview several women working professionally in audio. These conversations were so valuable and inspiring to her and they just happened to coincide with the SoundGirls Podcast’s search for new hosts. Katie daydreamed about landing the gig for weeks and is convinced she manifested this reality. Being able to continue the trend of speaking with folks working professionally in audio—and now getting to actually share the wealth in these conversations with people through the podcast—is such a worthwhile endeavor. She feels really blessed and excited to be a part of the SoundGirls community!
Katy Wood
Katy Wood is a freelance sound supervisor and sound editor originally from New Zealand. Her career in sound for film and television has spanned more than 20 years and four countries. She has worked extensively in the United States, New
Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Katy has covered all aspects of sound production and post-production on projects ranging from large feature films, such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, American Sniper, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Just Mercy, and Birds Of Prey to compelling documentaries like Disarm, Girl Rising and No Dress Code Required. She has a Masters Degree in Film and Television Specializing in Sound from the Australian Film Television and Radio School. In addition, Katy has taught courses on sound post-production in Australia, Mexico, the US, and Chile.
Onnalee Blank, CAS – Re-Recording Mixer, Warners Brothers
Onnalee was a ballet dancer before getting into audio. Since then, Onnalee has won several Emmys and Cinema Audio Society (CAS) awards for her work as dialog and music mixer on Game of Thrones. The Underground Railroad’s Joi McMillon, Onnalee Blank Featured in THR’s ‘Behind the Screen’ Episode

Marla McGuire
Marla has worked as a sound editor and supervising sound editor for over 20 years in television and film and has worked on over 70 feature and episodic titles. As such she has seen the many changes the industry has gone through. From 24- track tape to the various digital workstations battling to become the industry standard, she’s experienced the evolution to where we are today with pro-tools. She started her career working as part of the production sound team on TV movies. This has proven to be invaluable to her career in post sound.
She has recently served as the supervising sound editor for the long-running series Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, as well as the highly acclaimed Showtime limited series Your Honor. Marla has been nominated for two Primetime Emmys for her work on Dead by Sunset and See Jane Run, as well as three MPSE Golden Reel Awards for Jean-Claude Van Johnson, Prep & Landing, and Commander in Chief.

Lauren Stephens
Lauren was the supervising sound editor on Carnival Row. A multiple Emmy-nominee for sound editing on Daredevil, she has also received several Golden Reel Award nominations from her peers. Aside from Daredevil, she’s well known for her work on Punisher, The Bourne Identity, Gladiator and For Love of the Game.

Ask the Experts - Game Audio
2021-08-14 11:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
An audio professional working in the gaming industry is required to possess not only musical and audio talent but also knowledge and experience with typical game audio workflow. In this webinar we introduce you to the Game Audio industry, covering the many facets of sound production and engineering that are particular to games.

Join us for Ask the Experts – Game Audio. This is your opportunity to get your questions answered about working in Game Audio, with Bonnie Bogovich, Emily Meo, and Daniy Oberle.
August 14 at 11 AM PDT – Register and Post Questions Here
Moderated By:
Bonnie Bogovich: A sound designer and voice actor in the video game, educational media, and audio drama industry, her work can be heard in a variety of projects including “The Call of the Flame,” “Pugmire,” “Mandible Judy,” “I Expect You To Die,” “Codename Blank,” “Pathfinder: Kingmaker”, and “Death and Taxes.” She is the co-producer of Cryptic Canticles’ “The Dracula Radioplay Experience,” co-creator of “Super Smash Opera,” and “Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera,” and arranger and vocalist (solo and choir) for a plethora of video game soundtracks and tribute albums. Former Audio Lead at Schell Games, based in her hometown Pittsburgh, PA, these days Bonnie runs her own audio production company, BlackCatBonifide LLC, in Austin, Texas.

Panelists Include
Emily Meo is an Austin-based sound designer and composer for games. She graduated from the University of Texas with a classical composition degree and went on to study audio engineering, live sound, and synthesis at Austin Community College, as well as studying Wwise and Unity at the online School of Video Game Audio. After a five-year period of producing audio for indie and casino games, she’s been contracting with local AAA studios since last year and is currently working on the upcoming immersive shooter, Redfall, with Arkane Austin. Her non-audio interests include cooking, studying Japanese, and petting other people’s dogs.

Daniy Oberle is a sound designer, field recordist, and sound artist based in Austin, Texas, USA. She has been doing audio professionally since 2006. She is currently a Senior Audio Artist at Bioware, where she’s shipped Star Wars: The Old Republic, Mass Effect: Andromeda, and Anthem. Daniy’s specialty is game sound design and implementation, but she has also worked in audio post-production, film production sound, stage production, live music, and corporate audiovisual.

Ask the Experts - House of Worship
2021-08-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
​Working Audio in House of Worship presents some challenges that are different from working in studios and live events in clubs, theatres, arenas and stadiums.​ Great live sound requires careful planning, the right gear, paying attention, and making the right decisions. This certainly comes into play at complex church services.

What differentiates church programs from concerts and festivals is that a service can be like a whole festival in one act. Very often, church services also entail multiple audio configurations, with all of the variations of music and presenters, the service needs to be planned and executed with the precision of a live TV variety show and they pull it off seamlessly.
Join us for Ask the Experts – Mixing in House of Worship. This is your opportunity to get your questions answered about working in House of Worship, with Samantha Potter, Brian Maddox, Beckie Campbell, and Issac Moreno.
August 21 at 11 AM PDT – Register and Post Questions Here
Moderated Samantha Potter
Samantha is an audio engineer and an editor for ProSoundWeb with a passion for writing and educating. Additionally, she serves as the “Install Empress” for Allen & Heath USA, helping to merge the live sound solutions we all love into the commercial and install space.
Growing up as a musician, Samantha found her way to live sound by way of the studio, proving that bassists make the best sound engineers. The host of the Church Sound Podcast and a co-director and leader instructor for Church Sound University, Samantha can often be found teaching, writing, and hosting discussions on various live-sound topics.
Panelists Include
Brian Maddox
Brian Maddox (Patti LaBelle, James Brown, Herbie Hancock), a pro audio veteran with enough experience to fill several books. With over 25 years experience working in the live audio production industry. Skilled in both Sound Reinforcement and Broadcast arenas. Proficiency in System Design, A1, A2, RF Tech, and Comms Tech including Matrix and RF Comms systems.
Beckie Campbell
Beckie is the successful owner of B4Media Production LLC. As a business owner of a growing production company, she Produces corporate events, festivals, and live shows all over the US, as well as manages crews, trains employees, and runs sound. She freelances as an A1 for several corporate organizations such as the City of Orlando and PennellChing Development. As a PM, Monitor, and FOH Engineer her expertise is in audio, but she has also taught Audio Visual Technologies/Sports Broadcasting and several other courses around Florida for various companies and schools. As an accomplished Production Manager, FOH and Monitor engineer she has helped train and grow crews for several theaters, live events, and houses of worship. All while touring as a FOH Engineer for major acts like the Indigo Girls and the Commodores.
Early in her career, she was a Technical Director/FOH Engineer for two Mega Churches in Florida where she got her feet wet in audio, video, and lighting. Her skill set is easily transferable to any of the three areas.
Beckie is passionate about live events and making sure the next generation learns the proper way to make an event excellent. In her leisure time, she can be found cooking, relaxing at the beach with an ice-cold beverage, watching a live performance, or kayaking. She loves to hang with her nieces and nephews and teach them fun crafts, the difference between stage left and stage right, and how to make goofy faces. Beckie is the Co-Director of the Orlando SoundGirls Chapter and with Susan Williams started the SoundGirls Podcast.
Isaac Moreno
Isaac has been working in the audio industry for over 29 yrs. In that time he has worked with many Christian touring bands like: Seventhday Slumber, StellarKart, KJ52, Manafest, The Letter Black, Wolves at the Gate, Lynda Randle, Michael Tait, Superchick just to name a few.
He also operates a studio where he mixes and masters albums and he has worked with clients such as LucasFilm, Disney, Marvel, WarnerBrothers, DreamWorks for either videogames, animations, or film. When he is not touring or in the studio, he is in church producing and running audio for services. He has also started teaching production to local churches to help his community succeed in producing better content.
Golden Preciado
Golden is a House of Worship Specialist for QSC. Golden grew up in the music industry and followed in her dad’s footsteps as an audio engineer, musician, and worship leader. Golden is an accomplished front-of-house and broadcast engineer not only in the church world but in the secular music industry as well. She enjoys teaching her skill set to others, including in the Church Sound Training FaceBook group and on-site where training is needed. Golden is a mother of 4 and serves in the AV ministry at her church, Grace Fellowship in Costa Mesa, CA.

Discover Audio Jobs on the developer side for software and hardware and Raffle with McDSP founder and CTO Colin McDowell
2021-08-27 11:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Tune in (zoom in ??) with McDSP founder and CTO Colin McDowell for a chat about jobs in the audio industry from the software/hardware developer side. Not everyone gets to record with amazing artists, mix for film or television, or run a live show. But there is plenty more that needs doing, particularly at companies specializing in audio products!! Colin will offer up some thoughts on what kinds of jobs are out there, and where some of those gigs can be found.

McDSP will be raffling off a single plug-in of choice to the winners. (Require an iLok or iLok Cloud session to authorize their products.)
August 27 at 11 AM PDT
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Following the presentation, there will be time for Q&A and a raffle for some McDSP plug-ins.
Colin McDowell has been creating audio products since dinosaurs roamed the earth, which according to some, in the early 1990s. Colin graduated with Honors from New Mexico State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, along with minors in Mathematics and Economics in 1991. Before founding McDSP in 1998, he was employed at IBM, Digidesign, and Dolby. Colin worked on several projects during that time, including many Digidesign plug-Ins, the original TDM multi-shell technology, and the Emmy Award-winning Dolby E audio encoder. Colin’s work at McDSP has garnered nine TEC Award nominations, two Electronic Musician Editors Choice awards, a Cinema Audio Society Award for Best Post Production Product, an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development, and a few US patents.

When not writing code, developing new products, or using his basket-case persona to demonstrate the latest technology from McDSP, Colin McDowell enjoys spending his time with his two daughters. From helping them with homework (when their NASA scientist mom can’t figure it out – which is like never), to attending every soccer practice, ballet recital, ice hockey game, and more, that is what Colin likes doing best.

Raffle Details:
A McDSP plugin will be raffled off – (require an iLok or iLok Cloud.)

Music Publishing and Royalties
2021-09-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom
Meet MDIIO

MDIIO provides a competitive advantage for artists to thrive in today’s music industry. Store everything associated with your songs, including your tracks, metadata, collaborators, lyrics, playlists, pitches, network, splits, and even licenses. Then let HyprAUDIO get your music to the masses, while you create magic in the studio.

SoundGirls Members receive a year-free subscription email us to start your free subscription. (soundgirls@soundgirls.org)

Join MDIIO and Justin Gray on September 7 at 1 PM PDT for a webinar on Music Publishing and Royalties
Register and Post Questions Here

Introduction to MDIIO

MDIIO is the easier way for the songwriter community to collaborate, network, pitch, and monetize music,” The user can embed each registered song with as many as 90 points of metadata, such as lyrics, collaborators’ contact info, performing rights organizations, master owners, beats per minute, musicians, and so on, thereby improving accuracy – and payment.
Founded by Songwriter, Record Producer, Music Executive, and Tech Entrepreneur Justin Gray, MDIIO offers numerous opportunities. A user can post a project to MDIIO’s community, privately or publicly, and can customize it. For example, he or she can look for instrumental music for a documentary; search for four- or five-star rated songwriters and ask them to submit songs; post the payment amount, and even license music directly from within the application. “We do all of the transactions within it, so for the user who’s licensing the song to you, they don’t have to pay a lawyer, and you don’t have to pay agency fees on top of that,” says Gray.
“Our number-one goal with MDIIO is to help everybody in music build viable opportunities and networks to help really propel their careers forward.” – Songistry’s Justin Gray
“It doesn’t matter if you’ve written 10 songs, or 1,000, or none,” says Gray. “It works on so many levels. We try as much as we can to link any of those songs that you’ve written to potential opportunities that may be out there. Maybe there’s an opportunity to place a song on a TV show, or to place a song with an artist. Maybe you’re living in rural Saskatchewan, and you create music, but there’s somebody who writes Spanish lyrics in Majorca. We’re really trying to encourage collaboration on a global level and connect the dots.

SoundGirls Virtual Conference
2021-12-04 - 2021-12-05 | Virtual, United States
Registration is now open
Educating and Inspiring the Next Generation in Audio
Two Days of Sessions in Post-Production, Live Sound, Recording Arts, Film & TV Sound, Broadcast, and More.
Plenty of Networking and Mentoring Opportunities
All Attendees will receive a link to archived videos of all the sessions to watch on-demand.
If you need financial assistance let us know at soundgirls@soundgirls.org

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Writing and Recording for Sync - with MDIIO
2022-01-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual, United States
Justin Gray of MDIIO will walk us through best practices for Writing and Recording for Sync.
January 20th at 1 PM PDT.
Zoom Link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83873644681?pwd=[REDACTED]
If you have questions you wish to submit, please do so here
MDIIO provides a competitive advantage for artists to thrive in today’s music industry. Store everything associated with your songs, including your tracks, metadata, collaborators, lyrics, playlists, pitches, network, splits, and even licenses. Then let HyprAUDIO get your music to the masses, while you create magic in the studio.
SoundGirls can receive a year free subscription. email us at soundgirls@soundgirls.org for a discount code.
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Documentary Sound Mixing in a War Zone
2022-05-01 11:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Please join SoundGirls, Gotham Sound, and LA Sound Mixer for a webinar on Documentary Sound Mixing in a War Zone. Xenia Vinogradova is a Kyiv-based Sound Mixer and will answer your questions about what it’s like being part of a documentary film crew in Ukraine right now, and what she’s doing to help first responders on the ground.
May 1st at 11 AM PDT
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Moderated by Leslie Gaston-Bird and joined by panelists Xenia Vinogradova and Iryna Kucherenko
Xenia Vinogradova is a production sound mixer/ sound editor, living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2015, she graduated from Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema, and Television with a Master’s Diploma in the specialty “Sound Engineering in Film”.
Since launching her career in the film industry, Xenia has taken on various roles in creating sound for moving pictures: recording audio on location and working as a studio recording engineer; editing sound at the post-production studios, working as a music editor and sound designer.
Her works include “Cenzorka”by Peter Kerekes, “Mountain Breeze” by Julia Kochetova, “Au Revel” by Sieva Diamantakos.
Currently, Xenia continues to live in Ukraine, working as a production sound mixer in the war zone with TABOR and Babylon’13 film productions.
Iryna Kucherenko is a location sound mixer for both scripted and unscripted projects. Iryna has experience, in reality, features, documentaries, commercials, and anything in between and is a Co-founder of Safe&Sound Ukraine and CEO of Prime Sound Productions

Safe&Sound Ukraine
A fundraising project aiming to purchase robust walkie-talkies and satellite phones for Ukrainian medics, volunteers, and evacuation coordinators.

The goal of the fundraiser is to raise $200,000 to cover the needs of communication devices. The amount is quite big, but so is our hope to make it happen. This is a unique case when the power of the filming community can help save lives.

The List of equipment Safe&Sound Ukraine are seeking
Note: Units cost approximately €400-600 EACH and this does not include spare batteries and parts
Spare batteries are essential in the field because these essential workers cannot afford to have a device without power.
Examples:
Motorola 4400/ 4600/ 4800
Hytera PD705G, PD785G, PD985
Baofeng DM-1801
(basic requirements –
DMR standard, signal encryption, power 4-5 W and higher.
If someone suggests similar models – we can have a look and see if our specialists approve of those)

“Film sound people exist all over the world and we share a special kinship in this craft we love so much. When times are tough or the unthinkable happens, we support each other motivated solely by the tribe-like kinship we feel through the craft. Xenia Vinogradova is one of us. She could have fled her homeland for safety but instead, she stayed and organized Safe&Sound Ukraine in order to help make a difference. Now it’s up to us, as part of her film sound tribe, to step in and help. I am honored to help support Xenia and the people of Ukraine in this fight and I hope you will join us.”
Chris Howland CAS – Founder, LA Sound Mixers
“Gotham Sound is honored to be a founding member of Safe and Sound Ukraine, and feel privileged to be able to offer our expertise to provide humanitarian and tactical support to the people of Ukraine during this unprecedented crisis.
In peaceful times, Xenia Vinogradova works as a production sound mixer in Kyiv. When Russia invaded, she rallied film crews from around the world to help provide rugged, secure communications devices and other humanitarian aid to those defending Ukraine, while continuing to work and live in her home city. We are inspired by her tireless leadership and courage.”
Peter Schneider Co-Owner, Gotham Sound and Communications, Inc.
“A free press is the foundation of democracy. We have members of the sound community who are documenting the challenge the free press and democracy faces today in Ukraine. I consider it essential to support those who are defending – quite literally – the rights of all of us. I support Safe&Sound Ukraine. Make a difference and donate.”
Gordon Moore – President, Lectrosonics, Inc.

SoundGirls and Women in Vinyl Virtual Conference
2025-12-13 09:00 - 2025-12-14 18:00 | Virtual, United States
Join Us for the SoundGirls & Women in Vinyl Virtual Conference — December 13–14, 2025!
The SoundGirls & Women in Vinyl Virtual Conference is your opportunity to connect, learn, and grow with professionals from every corner of the audio industry. Whether you’re behind the console, mastering tracks, or mentoring the next generation, this two-day event is built to inspire and empower.
Highlights Include:
The Producer’s North Star with GRAMMY-winning producer Ebonie Smith — reconnect with your creative “why.”
Audio Education That Doesn’t Break the Bank — practical paths for learning without the student debt.
Live Event Production Teams — explore how Production Managers, Stage Managers, and Coordinators bring shows to life.
AI & the Music Industry with April Tucker, Kate Finan, and Tina Morris — understanding the tools shaping our future.
Mastering Feedback Session with Jett Galindo, Sarah Register, and Maggie Luthar — real-time insights on your mixes.
Do You Feel Seen? Visibility, Art & Inclusion — a creative conversation about identity, resilience, and being seen.
Register Now: use code Members to receive 25% off
No one will be turned away for lack of funds — we’re providing grants to ensure access for all. If you would like to donate to provide grants you can do so here, no amount too small
Let’s build community, share knowledge, and empower the next generation of women and non-gender-conforming people in audio.
