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The CW's Supernatural has an organic soundtrack that stems from reality and is then augmented. Gertsman, who also worked on the Syfy series Being Human, feels that Helix had one of the tightest schedules he's ever experi- enced. As the season progressed, Gertsman says, the visual effects were coming in later and they only had four or five days before each episode aired. "We'd print and visual effects would still come in even after we were supposed to have delivered," says Gertsman. Since all the mix rooms and edit suites at Premium Sound are using Pro Tools 10, Gertsman says making changes are easy. "If I have to run back-and-forth between the dub stage and my editing suite, it's really easy," he notes. "We can send fixes over our network and the mixers slug them in on the dub stage. It's become a very streamlined process." There was no physical media on this show. According to Gertsman, the picture came from LA, and a few other editors in Montreal, via the Internet. There were also sounds coming from Toronto. "Everything was coming in virtually," he recalls. "Honestly, a couple years ago, we couldn't have done a show like this. We'd need everyone in-house. It just would not have worked." Supernatural Michael Lawshé, at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, CA (http:// www.warnerbros.com), is the supervising sound editor for Super- natural. He's been with the show since the pilot, which was nine years and 19 episodes ago. For over 20 years, Lawshé has worked with Supernatural's executive producer Robert Singer, co-execu- tive producer Philip Sgriccia, and producer Todd Aronauer. "We all have a really tight shorthand," says Lawshé. "We'll lob questions at each other on things that are coming up on an episode, or that happened on a past episode. We have an idea of what we can pull back from the library." Being able to communicate so effectively adds a continuity and consistency to the show's sound. Supernatural follows brothers Dean and Sam Winchester as they hunt demons, ghosts, monsters and other supernatural beings. The show has been renewed for Sea- son 10. New episodes air on The CW, Tues- days at 9pm EST. Despite the show's super- natural story-points, the direction for sound, from the very beginning, was to be organic and realistic to start with, and then augment the sound from there. Lawshé has worked with sound effects editor Marc Meyer since the show's pilot. With almost 200 episodes Booth # C6516 T h e n e w c l a s s o f c o n s o l e . t b c c o n s o l e s . c o m | 1 . 8 8 8 . c o n s o l e