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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y F A L L 2 0 1 9 21 IS THAT WHERE YOU STARTED DEVELOPING YOUR DIALOGUE CHOPS, OR DO YOU THINK YOU ALREADY HAD THAT? Well, like I said, I'd been mixing as much material as I could get my hands on even previous to what we've talked about. I was mixing dialogue on shows as far back as 2003. Workaholics was the first thing I mixed dialogue on, which was really tough because it was from an AAF. SO, NO DIALOGUE EDITORS INVOLVED, JUST STRAIGHT FROM THE PICTURE EDITOR'S MACHINE. Yeah! MAKE THAT SYNC HAPPEN! Right! I shared that show with another mixer, but as he got busier, I started taking over. And, that was also a one- man, sorry, one-person mix! I'd been mixing a while and I'd been mixing both dialogue and FX and was comfortable with both. I FEEL THAT'S BECOMING MORE AND MORE COMMON AS OPPOSED TO IT BEING A VERY REGIMENTED CLIMB. Yes. BEFORE, A MIXER WAS GOING TO BE IN THE FX CHAIR FIRST AND FOR A WHILE. THEN YOU MIGHT HAVE A SHOT AT DIALOGUE WHEN A POSITION OPENED UP. NOWADAYS, IT SEEMS YOUNG MIXERS ARE MORE APT TO BE PUT IN THE SITUATION WHERE THEY ARE A SINGLE MIXER. SO YOU HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. To that point, I'm constantly learning; every day. That's what I love about this job! Every day I get a new challenge. So, I'm always learning. I'm really grateful that I had this little detour through supervising because it taught me a lot about what things to watch out for while you're mixing. IN TERMS OF WORKFLOW OR FINAL PRODUCT? Final product. I think about spotting notes. I wonder if somebody had an idea about a moment in the show. I wonder if there's something that was decided ahead of time. I ask myself, "What were they feeling?" So I know exactly what things to try to embellish based on all the spotting sessions I've been to and that kind of experience. DOES THAT MEAN YOU SEE THE NOTES BEFORE YOU START MIXING, GENERALLY? I don't. I don't want to step on any toes, so I'll ask if I have any questions. I'll defer to whoever's supervising the show. DO YOU THINK YOUR MUSIC BACK- GROUND HELPS YOU WITH THE DIA- LOGUE STUFF, OR DO YOU THINK OF IT SEPARATELY? I think it definitely helps! Mixing-wise, a lot of the same concepts apply. It's also fun because I can get some creative movement out of the mix more easily due to my background mixing music. I'm always counting while I'm mixing and making sure that my mix moves are rhythmically correct. I always want to make sure that everything is flowing. Hopefully, when the greatest combinations happen, the picture editing is also flowing with the music. Anyway, following that, I was brought over to Formosa as an FX mixer and was fortunate to be paired up with Gary Bourgeois. NICE! Yeah! Around the same time, Gary mentioned to Formosa that he was interested in mixing television and I was From left: Nick Jimenez (stage tech), Rich Weingart CAS (Fx mixer), Gabriel Garcia (producer), Alexandra Fehrman CAS, and Wade Barnett (sound supervisor). working on bringing a show there. Then Gary took another gig, and since these clients were familiar with me and my work over the years I got the job. WELL, GOOD! IT DOESN'T ALWAYS, BUT IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK THAT WAY, RIGHT? Yep! WELL, THAT BRINGS US TO TODAY AND YOUR HIT ON AMAZON, THE BOYS! The Boys was super fun to work on! It was such a cool mix because they wanted to push the envelope in all directions. Have you seen the show? I'VE BINGED THEM ALL! IT'S HILARIOUS! And so dark! It's dark in the best way. I had worked with (writer/EP) Eric Kripke before on Timeless. On that pilot, I was the sound supervisor, and we did a ton of work designing the time machine. I knew that this project was going to be tough in the beginning. WHY, BECAUSE YOU'D BE EDITING ON THE STAGE? Well, just because we had a lot of ground to cover in terms of mixing the specific sounds for these superheroes. I knew that Rich, my mixing partner Rich Weingart, was going to be very busy with FX. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. I ended up being very busy, too, because I was … It was interesting, we mixed the