Stems & Delivering To The Mix

STEMS & DELIVERING TO THE MIX

BEST AUDIO DELIVERY PRACTICES

With:

Music Mixer / Recording Engineer

SATOSHI NOGUCHI

Composer

TOM SALTA

MODERATED BY JONATHAN ZALBEN

(SCL NY Steering Committee)

THURSDAY, MAY 18

4:00pm PT // 6:00pm CT // 7:00pm ET

YouTube Live Stream

Your cues are written, approved, and recorded, and now it’s time to deliver them to the music mix, video game implementation, or the final dub mix. It’s time to create stems! There are many questions to consider: How do you set your session up to easily bounce stems at the correct levels? What instruments should you group together? How do you keep all your stems organized and synced? 

We will be discussing these topics among others, and taking your questions in the livestream chat.

Satoshi Noguchi is a music mixer and engineer based in Nashville, Tennessee, specializing in film, television, video games, live production, and albums. After more than a decade in Los Angeles and New York City, the Seattle native has worked on a wide array of projects from blockbusters to independent features. He has extensive experience in studio recording and mixing worldwide, as well as live sound.

Select music mixing projects include: Everything Everywhere All At Once (Oscar winner for best picture), World of Mickey Mouse (Emmy nominated), Cat Burglar (Emmy winner), Elden Ring, Schmigadoon! (Emmy nominated miniseries), the album Eva Cassidy and the London Symphony Orchestra, Old, Roy G Biv (an installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art), The Personal History of David Copperfield (IFMCA winner), and Lion. In 2013 Satoshi was nominated for a CAS mixing award for Explosions in the Sky’s score for Lone Survivor. From 2009 to 2013 Satoshi worked as a staff engineer at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions where he worked on numerous blockbuster films.

Some recent clients include Christopher Willis, Son Lux, Joseph Trapanese, Austin Fischer, Rob Cantor, and Jonathan Sadoff. Recent film studio and record label clients include Disney, Apple+, Fromsoft, Paramount, Netflix, and Blix Street Records.

Tom Salta is an ASCAP award-winning and BAFTA-nominated composer and one of the most versatile and prolific music artists/producers working in film, television, advertising, and video games. Renowned for crafting emotionally engaging soundtracks for multimedia, Salta has received widespread industry acclaim for his world-class produced hybrid scores featured in film, television, and video games such as Arkane Studios’ Deathloop, Machine Games’ Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Cyberpilot, Microsoft’s iconic Halo series (Best Original Soundtrack Award at Game Developers Conference), Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Red Steel (IGN Award for Best Original Score), Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon and H.A.W.X series, as well as the epic theme music for the record-breaking online multiplayer game Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, which has sold more than 75 million units with over 700 million players.

Jonathan Zalben creates compelling soundtracks for picture drawing on his decades-long experience in music, film, television, and media art. He studied violin and music composition at Juilliard Pre-College, Yale, and NYU. Zalben’s media art has been viewed at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, MASS MoCa, Boston Public Library, Sony Wonder Technology Lab in New York City, and art galleries around the world.

He won an award for his media art collaboration, Compound Pilot, at SXSW. In 2023 he was nominated for a Guild of Music Supervisors Award for Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes directed by Peter Schnall for PBS. Zalben also music supervised Shut Up and Paint directed by Titus Kaphar and Alex Mallis which aired on PBS and was shortlisted for the 2023 Oscars in the Best Short Doc category, and he also music edited the MGM film Till directed by Chinonye Chukwu, which was shortlisted in the Best Original Song category. Film and TV credits include the Emmy-award winning series, Axios on HBO directed by Matthew O’Neill and Perri Peltz, the Oscar-nominated film Redemption (HBO) directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill, Alone (NY Times Op-Doc) directed by Garrett Bradley, which won the Sundance Jury Award and was shortlisted for an Oscar, There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane (HBO) directed by Liz Garbus, On Pointe (Disney+) directed by Larissa Bills, Just Before I Go (Starz) directed by Courteney Cox, and No Way Jose (Sony Pictures) directed by Adam Goldberg.

Zalben is the founder and owner of First Frame Music, a company for music supervision, licensing, and score, which has a diverse roster of artists and a catalog of over 3,000 musical works. In addition, Zalben teaches music for picture and is the Director of Media Scoring at CUNY Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Steiner Studios. You can read more about him at www.jonathanzalben.com.

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FREE for current SCL members (click HERE to check membership status).

Attendees will be emailed a Screening Link upon Registration and a Q&A YouTube Live Stream link on Thursday, May 18, 10 minutes before Q&A start.

Attendees can ask questions on YouTube chat, and the SCL Host will pass them on to the Moderator. The SCL Member Code of Conduct applies to online Q&As.

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