SoundGirls Podcast

Kylie Snyder (she / her) is a reformed singer turned audio and media engineer working on staff at University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center as Technical Lead for Media & Studio Arts. She really loves building complex integrations between analog and digital systems, primarily in studios, as well as talking about her experiences as a trans woman. https://kpsnyder.com/   Host & Producer: Rebecca Wil...

Eve Horne is an Award-Winning Creative Mentor and Advisor. She has over 20 years experience in the Music Industry as a Singer, Songwriter, and Producer. She is the founder of PeakMusicUK and the UNHEARD Campaign which demands equality for women in the Music Industry. She is a qualified Sound Engineer, Co-Founder of M@LO & The Magpie, and a Native Instruments Certified Specialist. She was recently...

Suzanne Ciani is a five-time Grammy award-nominated composer, electronic music pioneer, and neo-classical recording artist who has released over 20 solo albums including "Seven Waves," and "The Velocity of Love," along with a landmark quad LP “LIVE Quadraphonic,” which restarted her Buchla modular performances. Her work has been featured in films, games, and countless commercials as well. She was...

Zoe Thrall is a music industry professional with decades of experience in recording studio management. Her career started at the famed Power Station Studios in New York City where she learned both sides of studio operations as both an assistant engineer and in studio management. There she met producer/musician/actor Little Steven Van Zandt who hired her to work for him as an engineer and as a musi...

Golden Preciado grew up in the music industry and followed in her dad's footsteps as an audio engineer, musician, and worship leader. In addition to her work at QSC, she’s also the lead engineer at Campus JAX in Newport Beach, CA, and Grace Fellowship Church in Costa Mesa, CA. Her passion is teaching others her craft. She’s a wife and mother of 4. Recorded & Produced by Beckie Campbell & Susan Wil...

Shrinking spectrum, antennas, and RF training resources, oh my! Rebecca hosts 3 RF experts giving you all the answers you need about radio frequencies.  Karl Winkler is a 30-year veteran of the professional audio industry and is currently Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Lectrosonics, Inc., a leading manufacturer of professional wireless microphone systems. Karl has provided system design...

Willa Snow is a Touring FOH/MON/Patch technician based in Central Texas with a deep passion for her industry and art form. Starting in studio recording while in school, she has been working in live concerts for the past several years in such venues as Bass Concert Hall, One World Theater, and Stubb's Indoors, as a monitor and front-of-house engineer. In her spare time, she serves as Austin's chapt...

Lotje Horvers is a tour manager from Amsterdam. She has been active in the music industry for 20 years. She started out booking local bands when she was a teenager, and since then has covered a great variety of jobs in the live music industry: stagehand, production runner, merch vendor, agent assistant, stage manager & backstage hospitality. But mostly she has been tour managing, traveling the wor...

Jenn D’Eugenio is the sales and marketing administrator at Furnace Record Pressing and a vinyl enthusiast for over 18 years. She is the founder and curator of ‘Women In Vinyl’; and is dedicated to the art and creation of vinyl. Her background spans designing textiles for Fortune 500 fashion companies to career advising for one of the top art colleges in the country; however, Jenn’s passion for vin...

Josh Osmond is a 19-year veteran of the live music industry, working as a touring FOH Engineer and Systems Engineer since the age of 23. Josh has toured as a FOH Engineer with the likes of Tracy Chapman, John Legend, and since 2013 has been the longtime FOH Mixer for The Lumineers. As a systems engineer Josh has spent time touring with Bob Dylan, Dead & Company, and others. Josh also works as the...

Pat Kearns has been working as a singer-songwriter and recording engineer for over 29 years. In 2015, he and his wife Susan, sold all they owned in Portland to move out to the Mojave desert and begin construction on Goat Mountain Studio, a world-class, fully-solar, destination recording studio in Joshua Tree. Featuring analog gear that’s been traced back to Abbey Road, the studio houses many vinta...

Kari Erickson started her career in audio engineering virtually by accident in her early 20’s and then went on to graduate from the Institute of Audio Research in 2002. She was one of three women’s audio engineers in the famous NYC Club Tonic and has also toured mixing FOH for bands such Meshell Ndegeocello and Yo La Tengo. Currently, she lives in Seattle, Wa, and is the Audio Visual Systems Engin...

Salim Akram is a live sound engineer specializing in mixing monitors. He currently works as the Monitor Engineer for seven-time Grammy Award-winning artist Billie Eilish and eight-time Grammy Award-winning producer and artist Finneas.  In 2019, he was featured in FOH Magazine and was a Parnelli nominee for the Monitor Engineer of the Year. After attending Art Institute of New England, Salim began...

It's SEASON 3 of the SOUNDGIRLS PODCAST!! Introducing new host Rebecca Wilson! Ania Grzesik’s varied 20+ year audio career encompasses working in recording studios, theatrical sound design, and mixing live music and theater. Ania was the Audio Supervisor for Blue Man Group’s NYC production, as well as an engineer for their recordings and television appearances. Since 2018, she has been engineering...

In this episode of The SoundGirls Podcast, freelance sound engineer + venue technician Daria Lipinska and newly graduated film student Katie Pagacz interview each other and goof around and thank everyone profusely.  There are two Legally Blonde references and one Harry Potter reference.  Most importantly, they pass the torch to the lovely new host who will ring in the new season of The SoundGirls...

SHERRY KLEIN CAS – Re-Recording Mixer Sherry Klein is a Post Production Re-Recording Mixer for Television and Film. She is currently living in Los Angeles, Ca. working with Smart Post Sound. Some of her credits include New Amsterdam, Queen of the South, Burn Notice, Sons of Anarchy, and The Shield. Sherry started her career as a musician, her dream was always to study music and have a successful c...

Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato is a professional concert sound engineer who has worked for some of the most recognizable names in music for almost three decades. Starting with her first tour with the band Spin Doctors in 1992, Michelle has been touring the world as an independent engineer, mixing for a diverse slate of artists and musicians including Janet Jackson, Indigo Girls, Jewel, Gwen Stefani...

The SoundGirls Living History project is a collection of interviews with audio industry veterans. The project seeks to highlight the careers and achievements of women and underrepresented groups in audio. Interviews are conducted by SoundGirls members, with guidance from experienced interviewers in the audio industry. Interviews will be available publicly in our Living History Project and for educ...

Keeping whole AV solution goals in mind, Chrissy thrives not just in digital signage but also in presentation training of Pro AV technology. From her start in Broadcast TV in '09 to her current home in Pro AV, Chrissy has spent her 12-year career gaining skills in technical training design, video presentation, video signal transport, IoT connectivity, AV system control, video system commissioning,...

This is our 100th episode, and to celebrate we have compiled a series of clips from past interviews that focus on one topic: Advice.  Clips from the following episodes: Wesley Devore https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-f6gft-11e4101 Barbara Adams https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-w4gum-11da88f Megan Clement https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cf3mc-11b211c Chelsea Body https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-r6bg7-119e745...

Wesley DeVore is a 25-year music industry veteran who got her start as a studio assistant for Nine Inch Nails at Nothing Studios in New Orleans. She has worked as an audio engineer, music producer, film composer, and contractor, wiring several professional studios including Central Command in North Hollywood. For the last 15 years, DeVore has worked for PreSonus and is currently the Marketing Mana...

Barbara Adams is an audio engineer and educator with over twenty-five years of experience in the music industry. She specializes in live sound and production management. Her strong and varied experience also includes recording engineer, stage management, and artist management. Barbara is a Lecturer Professor at Rowan University teaching Sound Reinforcement and Audio Recording in their Music Indust...

Patrice Scanlon is a classically trained musician, composer, sound designer, electronic musician, and audio engineer, working in the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Florida. She has 18 years of experience teaching and performing electronic/computer music, audio engineering, and interactive multimedia composition. Patrice also develops live audio processing and interactive software with Max, whi...

Jayshree Mallaya is a South African born in the beautiful seaside city of Durban. She is an award-winning businesswoman and community worker as well as a best-selling co-author of her book, Palm Reading & Positive Thinking (with her sister Mellissa Mallaya Pandya.) Jayshree also has a blog entitled  "My Blessings In Life”. Since 2017 Jayshree has been the co-founder of a nonprofit organization Ove...

Ai-Ling Lee was born in Singapore where she studied music audio engineering. After two years of mixing and editing commercials and music, she moved to Los Angeles in 1998 to pursue a career in sound design for feature films. Since then she has worked as a sound designer, re-recording mixer, and sound supervisor on a variety of films including JoJo Rabbit, La La Land, First Man, Deadpool, Wild, Maz...