How much do you allow “the rules” to impact your creative songwriting and mixing choices? What is the right balance? Listen in on the continued conversation with audio engineers John March and David Bondelevitch while they discuss naming conventions, finding the right team, and the challenges of starting a career in the music industry.
Don’t try and be everything all at once. You know, it took me 40 years to be a good session musician, a good mixer and producer to the point where I’m comfortable doing any of those roles. But when you’re starting, figure it out and get a good team around you. Collaborate with people.
John March
Guest Host: David Bondelevitch
David Bondelevitch is an Emmy-award winning sound editor and re-recording mixer. He has also won two Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards and has been nominated twenty-six times. He is Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver. David is Past President of the MPSE and spent 14 years on the board of the Cinema Audio Society. He holds an MFA in Cinema Production from USC.
He is also a
Recent Work by David: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
The Trauma of Sanctuary by Deborah Esquenazi
John March – AV Media Consultant and Producer, Sound Mixer, Sound Designer and Social activist.
For the last 40 years, John has been working freelance as an audio craftsman/technologist, Producer, and A/V technology consultant, as well as a session musician in multiple areas of expertise and development. He is currently focused entirely on creating opportunities that utilize his aggregate skill-sets and diverse professional experience to help solve problems that serve the greater good, and supports the community. In Collaboration with ALOC Media, ALOCMedia.com, he works as a freelance Senior Producer and consultant. He is entirely focused on creating affordable high-quality media and content for Non-profits, educational institutions, artists, musicians/bands and entrepreneurs.
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