The Boom Box Post blog provides insights into the creative sound design process of Boom Box Post's owners and employees.
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Do you typically arrange your plugins and windows in a specific way for your editorial and mixing work? What if your window layout loaded up the same every time opposed to requiring you to reconfigure from scratch? Let’s break down how to take advantage of Pro Tools Window Configurations!
In June of this year, Pro Tools released an update that caught my attention. Version 2025.6 features “Speech to Text,” a new AI-driven technology that seems to have the potential to be a leap forward in how we handle dialogue in post production sound. I know, just the mention of AI can be scary for all of us - trust me, I get the concerns. But I do firmly believe that when used solely as a tool, there may be some very helpful applications for AI in our workflow. Is Speech to Text a game changer feature for Pro Tools? I decided to give it a try.
Every productive day starts with the right mindset—and the right snacks. Long days of editing, mixing, and sound designing can’t run on caffeine alone! Here’s a peek at the snack lineup that powers the Boom Box team through long mixes, heavy editorial and the occasional plugin crash.
Building out your studio desk and workspace can become very expensive. But not every upgrade has to break the bank. Sometimes it’s the small, thoughtful additions that end up having the biggest impact on your workflow, comfort, and overall studio vibe. Here are five wallet-friendly upgrades you can make to your home or professional studio that make an impact without hurting your wallet (too much).
The average American spends 8.5 hours a day working. That’s 42.5 hours a week, and a whopping 2,210 hours every year! If, like me your job ties you to a desk, that space is probably the only place other than your bed in which you’ll spend nearly that much time. But how many of us give any consideration to how the space is set up? Or how we position ourselves at that desk? Here’s a basic checklist for you to run down in order to optimize your workspace, and in turn, your overall wellbeing and health.
A re-recording mixer possesses many technical skills. Here at Boom Box Post, we’ve covered the subject in countless posts. But outside of the technical realm, what other skills are useful on the job? Here are my top 10.
As a re-recording mixer, it’s our job to create the final sound balance for a film or TV project. Here at Boom Box Post, we edit and prep both the dialogue and sound effects. The score however comes directly from the composers. The music has been both organized and mixed but it’s now our job to fit it in to the rest of the soundtrack. That’s where this post comes in. For this Music Mixing Basics posts, I’ll be covering the steps we take to work the score into the final mix.
We recently finished construction on our brand new post sound facility in Burbank, CA. One of our top priorities was to have multiple mix stages under our roof, all of which ready for Dolby Atmos. The way we saw it, we might as well be on the forefront of this emerging format. Building a mix stage is challenging enough, but adding in the extra Atmos considerations meant we would be faced with lots of opportunities to learn. Lucky for us, we are all about continuing to learn here at Boom Box Post! It’s in that spirit that I want to share with you some of the details of our journey.
If you missed Jeff’s big announcement in his blog post Introducing Boom Box Post Verdugo, we are currently building a new facility that will be all our own! We are in the home stretch of construction of our new studio which will feature three Atmos-ready mix stages. We are hoping to complete construction in about a month, and then we will move on to fabric, wiring, and gear installation on the stages. Because this process has been fascinating to us as first-time mix stage builders, I thought I would share our progress thus far with all of you.
