LIVE WEBINAR -  Thursday AUGUST 20, 2:30PM PT, PM 5:30PM ET, 9:30PM GMT

How's This Sound? A Post Production Panel

Get into the mix with this live panel of the industry’s best sound designers, mix engineers, and composers as they give feedback on your work! We’ll discuss all things off the page; the many components that make radio a listening experience, from sound design to archival tape to cleanup to music to everything “mixing” encompasses in the podcast and radio space.

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Note: This panel is free and available to all. Replay is available to AIR members only. If you are not a member, join here.
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Submit your work to be included in the feedback and listening session. If selected, the panel will discuss your piece, give feedback and then open the floor to audience questions and discussion. 

About this webinar

  • Thursday August 20, 2026
  • 2:30pm PT / 5:30pm ET / 9:30pm GMT
  • 120 min
  • Free  
  • This live webinar is recorded and made available for AIR members after the recording. 
As sound designers and composers and engineers, we’re often working isolated from each other; one to a team. We don’t often get to engage with each others’ work, or receive feedback and collaboration from other people who do what we do. And we get the sense that producers sometimes see our work as wizardry. This live panel is a space for us all to gather, listen, and learn, with an ear towards the craft of post.



We’re inviting three of our favorite sound designers, mix engineers, and composers to give feedback on all things off the page; the many elusive components that make radio a listening experience, from sound design to archival tape to cleanup to plugins to music to everything “mixing” encompasses in the podcast and radio space.




                               
 About Good Studio - 


Good Studio is a good recording studio for radio, podcasts, audiobooks, and voice over, located at 543 Union Street in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Key Takeaways

  1. Prime your ears for listen for in a mix
  2. Learn how to solve problems creatively
  3. Understand when to use different sonic elements to tell a story

Who's this panel for?

Primarily sound designers and engineers, but also producers, production managers, and anyone else who is curious about the process of post production and interested in learning and listening.

Meet the Moderator

Erica Huang

Erica Huang is a sound designer, mix engineer, and composer. She’s contributed to shows for The Atlantic, Vox, WNYC, Prologue Projects, Pushkin, Campside Media, PRX, iHeart, Constellations, Spoke Media, Audible, CNN, and LWC Studios, where she sound designed the Peabody nominated show 70 Million. Erica benefited a lot from mentorship in the early days of her mixing career, and is excited about bridging mentorship gaps between mixers who have been in the industry for many years and those just starting out. Some other things she likes besides mixing are crochet, analog synthesizers, and ham radio. Most days you can find Erica over at Good Studio in Gowanus.
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Meet the PANELISTS

Rick Kwan

Rick Kwan is an audio engineer currently based outside of Seattle, WA. He has recorded, edited and mixed radio and podcast projects for clients including NBC, Vox, Semafor, ABC, The Intercept, Gimlet, WNYC and WQXR. In addition to podcasts, he also records and mixes music projects for artists who have included My Morning Jacket, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Tom Club, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Frisell and Jason Moran. Additionally he has contributed to Grammy nominated albums by Fred Hersch, James Taylor, and Cristian McBride. Though he now calls the west coast his home, he spent the first 15 years of his career in New York and was raised in New England. 

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Michelle Macklem

Michelle Macklem is a sound designer and mix engineer for podcasts, radio, film and multimedia. Her work explores how sound can build immersive worlds and create space for reflection, critical thinking and engagement. She has sound designed and mixed podcast series for Audible, Wondery, TED, CBC, iHeart and Radiotopia. Recently, she worked as a foley editor on the film The Roses. In 2025, she won an Ambie award for Best Sound Design and Production for the ESPN podcast Girl V. Horse. Michelle has also worked as a producer, crafting audio documentaries for the BBC, ABC RN, NPR, CBC and KCRW. 

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Jim Briggs

Jim Briggs III is a senior sound designer, engineer, and composer for Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. He has lent his ears to a range of podcasts and radio programs including Marketplace, Selected Shorts, Death, Sex & Money, The Longest Shortest Time, NPR’s Ask Me Another, Radiolab, Freakonomics Radio, Soundcheck, and The 7 and Field Trip from the Washington Post. In a career devoted to elevating high-impact journalism, Jim’s work in radio, podcasting, and television has been recognized with Peabody, George Polk, duPont-Columbia, IRE, Gerald Loeb, and Third Coast awards, as well as a News and Documentary Emmy and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Sound. Jim is based in Western Massachusetts where he enjoys indoor rock climbing and the outdoors, and he is working on an electroacoustic composition centered on the human relationship with water.
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