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 from California State University, San Francisco, and has taught seminars on the theory and...

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.  Recently projects include supervising a film with Martin Scorsese's daughter, and she has also...

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.

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 Edited by: Christina Hiromoto soundgirls.org  Sponsored by QSC https://www.qsc.com Music...

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 professional, specializing in recording and editing foley sound effects for many films and animated...

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 professional, specializing in recording and editing foley sound effects for many films and animated...

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 professional, specializing in recording and editing foley sound effects for many films and animated...

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/companies. With a background in music and computer programming, Anne-Marie found herself shifting...

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: Rebecca Wilson Executive Producers: Beckie Campbell & Susan Williams Edited by: Robbie...

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-known Australian Tour manager Wane “Swampy” Jarvis, who piqued her interest in the production side...

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 festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, SXSW and Tribeca. April’s clients range from major studios...

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 Wilson Executive Producers: Beckie Campbell & Susan Williams Edited by: Christina...

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 named a SheSaid.So ALT list 2020 Honorée, is a board member for Moving The Needle, an MPG...

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 inducted into the first class of Keyboard Magazine's Hall of Fame alongside other synth...

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 musician in his band Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul. She later returned to Power Station to...

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 Williams Executive Producers: Beckie Campbell & Susan Williams Edited by: Fendall...

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 consultations and hundreds of frequency coordinations for theaters, TV and feature film...

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 chapter head for @soundgirls  https://www.willasnow.com/ Executive Producers: Beckie Campbell &...

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 world working with artists playing anywhere from squats to stadiums. In recent years she has...

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 vinyl has led her to a career in helping to manufacture the physical product for bands, and both...

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 Director of Operations for UltraSound, a San Francisco-based audio vendor where he oversees...

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 vintage instrumental and mixing gems alongside the conveniences of digital integration. Since opening...