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M OT I O N P I CTU R E S O U N D E D I TO R S I 35 The Soundelux Sound Effects Master Collection includes the work of the best recording engineers and sound designers in the world. The content represents sound effects that were recorded and developed for countless major motion pictures and popular television shows; the films include many Academy Award- winning productions and many of the TV shows are Emmy winners. To better understand the work that went into recording the library, we spoke to MPSE President Mark Lanza, who spent his first eight years in the industry working at Soundelux. At the time, Mark was a computer science major in college and a friend brought him into the fold for the film Born on the Fourth of July to help create a database of sounds for the project. He then started logging sound effects and loading them into WaveFrame for other projects. Mark was working at Soundelux at night, while still attending college during the day. Mark eventually made the transition to working at Soundelux full time. Wylie Statesman was instrumental in teaching Mark the ropes and getting Mark involved in the recording process. Wylie started sending Mark out on recording sessions and meetings for projects. During his time at Soundelux, Mark remembers being given the chance to do things right as well as do things wrong. He was given a chance to really grow as an editor and recordist. This boiled down to recording, listening back to the recordings and re-recording things as needed again until he got it right. The culture at Soundelux really supported going out and recording original sounds whenever possible. Obviously, a lot of sounds still came from libraries or previous recordings, but they always tried to get the really cool stuff that mattered on a project that was going to play loud or be a key part of the story. The Discovery crew