SoundGirls Podcast

Ashleigh is an experienced audio engineer, sound designer, and re-recording mixer, based in the UK, with a demonstrated history of working in the creative media production industries. She is highly skilled in audio post-production and mix engineering for film and television with numerous credits including BAFTA & Palme d’Or nominated films. Ashleigh has previously worked with the Pinewood Stud...

Amy Soulfire is a multi-facted audio engineer, musician, and producer based in the south island of New Zealand. She shares bits of all of her experiences with us (from live sound, to recording with children), and let us know what we can expect from her next!    Hosted by: Lora Thompson Executive Producers: Karrie Keyes, Beckie Campbell, and Susan Kost Edited by: Miesha Burley Music by: Jess Fenton...

Amy Wright has been around all things audio ever since she helped her sound engineer dad as a 6 year-old. From there she moved onto mixing bands on her own, and then started working in corporate AV at the Melbourne Convention Center. She has since moved into teaching at the Australian Institute of Music, using her tech, music, and production background to help empower the next generation of techni...

Lisa is a freelance sound engineer from Germany, now based in Auckland, New Zealand. She started doing sound in 2000 while trying to figure out what to do with her life after school. In 2003 she ditched her social work studies to pursue a career doing sound for live events and has never looked back. Doing monitors has been an early and lasting passion. Preparing the gear and programming a console...

Hannah Herzog is a 2020 Show Production Graduate who has mixed major world wide events such as the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Currently working as the audio department lead for American Audio Visual Inc., she has been handling audio for high profile figures such as Hillary Clinton, Ron DeSantis, and most recently Vice President JD Vance alongside White House Communications. In addition, she ha...

Kathleen is a freelance sound engineer from California, now based in Berlin, Germany. In recent years she's had the pleasure of touring internationally as a FOH/Monitor engineer and playback engineer. Empowering artists to realize their sonic vision and feel comfortable onstage is her passion. She's mixed stages in Rock am Ring/Rock im Park, Funkhaus Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Vienna Konzert...

Lora is a prolific musician hailing from Whāingaroa/Raglan, and is currently based in Kirikiriroa. She has worked as an Audio Engineer for the past 20 years, and she currently works as a freelance Audio Engineer/Guitar Tech for local and international acts, while also working as the Head of the Audio Program at the School of Audio Engineering. While based in Melbourne, Lora toured and worked on la...

Hailed for her impeccable attention to finessing low-end, Jaclyn Sanchez is bringing analog back into the mix. Nicknamed Jackie BOOM by legendary drummer Steve Jordan during a Bettye LaVette session for her energetic, present demeanor, the alias captures her ability to fuse analog depth with pop clarity for a sonic experience that hits like a record. She has worked with music icons including Laury...

Johnny Kerile is a touring system engineer and system design consultant specializing in design and optimization of large-scale live sound systems. He is also a L Acoustics application consultant, KSE and Artisan of Sound: representing L Acoustics with design support, calibration, show support, trainings and seminars.    Hosted by: Katie Maifeld and Brianna Cofield Executive Producers: Karrie Keyes...

Brianna Cofield is an audio engineer and pianist from Long Island, New York. While attending Syracuse University, Brianna gained hands-on experience in record production and live sound engineering. After graduating, she began working in a studio as an assistant, and eventually moved on to live sound engineering full-time. Currently, Brianna works as a live sound engineer at Quantum Sound Systems,...

Katie Maifeld is a NYC based freelance live audio engineer and music business professional. She has worked on thousands of events for clubs, festivals, and corporate conferences. Prior to these roles, Katie worked for recording studios as an assistant engineer, as an office manager, stage manager for an entertainment company, and was an award winning NPR talk show co-host and producer. She is the...

The SoundGirls Podcast Executive Producers: Karrie Keyes, Beckie Campbell, & Susan Kost This episode was edited by Susan Kost The SoundGirls Podcast is presented by soundgirls.org  Music by Jess Fenton https://www.jessfenton.com/ Admin by Kanika Khanna

Los Angeles; Sr. Managing Director, Producers & Engineers Wing and Recording Technology, Recording Academy. A former recording engineer, Maureen has worked on GRAMMY winning recordings for artists including Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, and Santana—as well as well as on numerous other projects, including two Billboard Number One Dance songs. She has a degree in Broadcast Communication Arts...

Jordan Kolence has been working in the music industry for over two decades. In this episode, he talks about everything from his start to his current role mixing Taylor Swift's monitors. It's a do n't-miss episode! 

Amelia McCloskey has been nominated for many awards, including Music Supervisor Of The Year. She started in the music business as a recording artist, then moved into artist development before becoming a sync agent and finally a music supervisor. Amount her newly opened Tronto offices; Amelia recently set up ultimatesyncaccess.com to educate and empower those looking to break into the sync world. ...

If you're interested in sound design audio work for feature and scripted content, this is the episode for you! Hear from this Emmy-nominated team.  Anthony Vanchure is an Emmy-nominated Supervising Sound Editor who has strengthened a variety of projects in television and film with his unique talents and precise creative approach. Most recently, Anthony has been celebrated for his work on Roku’s We...

Host & Producer: Rebecca Wilson www.rebeccawilsonstudio.com/ Executive Producers: Karrie Keyes, Beckie Campbell, & Susan Kost Edited by: Robbie Mortimer The SoundGirls Podcast is presented by soundgirls.org  Sponsored by QSC https://www.qsc.com Music by Jess Fenton https://www.jessfenton.com/

During her eleven years of production industry experience, Victoria Butash has been FOH and MON engineer, systems engineer, and a professor of live sound and audio. She is currently touring as a MON engineer for Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and Sylvan Esso. She is based in Austin, Texas. Host & Producer: Rebecca Wilson www.rebeccawilsonstudio.com/ Executive Producers: Beckie Campbell & Susan Kost...

Lenise Bent is one of the first women audio engineers & honed her skills on many iconic records including “Aja” by Steely Dan and “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp. She is the first woman engineer to receive a platinum album for Blondie’s “AutoAmerican” album which includes “The Tide is High” and the very first hit rap song with music, “Rapture”. Lenise is also a post-production audio professio...

Lenise Bent is one of the first women audio engineers & honed her skills on many iconic records including “Aja” by Steely Dan and “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp. She is the first woman engineer to receive a platinum album for Blondie’s “AutoAmerican” album which includes “The Tide is High” and the very first hit rap song with music, “Rapture”. Lenise is also a post-production audio professio...

Lenise Bent is one of the first women audio engineers & honed her skills on many iconic records including “Aja” by Steely Dan and “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp. She is the first woman engineer to receive a platinum album for Blondie’s “AutoAmerican” album which includes “The Tide is High” and the very first hit rap song with music, “Rapture”. Lenise is also a post-production audio professio...

Anne-Marie Ront is a proficient, creative, and technical Sound Designer at Ubisoft Toronto. She has been working on highly regarded AAA video games for the past 5 years. Her work can be heard on Far Cry 6, Far Cry 5 and Starlink: Battle for Atlas. Previously, she was freelancing as a Dialog Editor, Sound Designer and Re-Recording Mixer working with various types of media for a number of studios/co...

Jon Ostrin has been working in live audio for 36 years. He worked my way up from shop tech, touring as an audio tech, mixing FOH and Mons for support acts, and settled in as a FOH engineer for about 25 years with such artists as Toto, Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Onigo Boingo just to name a few. He moved to the Monitor position with John Legend in ‘08 where he still remains today.  Host & Producer: Reb...

SoundGirls Living History Project - Tana Douglas - Interviewed by Juliet (Surely Lorraine) Tana Douglas is known as the first woman roadie and got her start working in Production in 1973 when Philippe Petit rigged a steel cable between the towers at the northern entrance to the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Without realizing it she had just done her first gig. This was followed by a meeting with a well-kn...

April Tucker has been described as a “Jane of all trades,” performing nearly every major role in post-production sound over her career in Los Angeles (Foley and ADR mixer, dialog editor, music editor, score mixer, sound designer, sound supervisor, re-recording mixer). April has mixed major television network series with some audiences over 10 million viewers. Her film work has been seen at major f...