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locked up. If one of us has to hear something uninterrupted for a moment, we're cognizant of that and sit out. There's not a lot of music in the show, so I tend to mix music while I'm mixing dialogue. Usually, it's a piece of source music or something. I'll go back and do group. We lock it up, play it back, and do our fixes. One thing we're doing this year as opposed to other years, is a remote playback. The editor and their assistant are at Fox and we're in Burbank with the associate producer. They have a play- back room which is smaller and has minimal acoustic treatment but utilizes the same monitors and amplifiers we mix on. We use Source-Connect and Skype and we do our notes that way. Was there anything about "The Storm" that made it particu- larly challenging? We had to keep the storm alive. There was so much rain in that show. We had to keep it alive and feel real without having it become overshadowing. There were times where you have some- one who's outside and they get electrocuted. Well, then the storm has to be a big deal. But if they're in an intimate conversa- tion, we have to play it differently. It was just real important for the audience that they always knew that the big storm was hap- pening. Let me ask you some nuts-and-bolts stuff. Is there anything about your setup that you've changed over the last eight years to better accommodate the show or do things differently that you like? The only thing that's really changed are the compressors a little bit. I just try to mix as though I'm watching the show for the first time. I want my shows that I work on—I don't want you to hear angle changes. I spend a lot of time and make sure there are really good long handles but, to me, that's more important than a particular piece of equipment or a chain. I like to keep things simple. Signal path is really important but if I'm dinking around with it all the time, then I'm not really sure what I'm listening to. I think you can get a lot done with simplicity. If you're meticulous and you take your time, you can get a lot done with- out a lot of gear in line. Congratulations, guys!