RECORDED Panel -Thursday, September 25, 5:30 - 7:30pm ET

How's This Sound? A Post-Production Feedback Panel

A panel of the industry’s best sound designers, mix engineers, and composers give feedback on your mix! 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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About this webinar

  • Thursday, September 25, 2025
  • 2:30pm - 4:30pm PT / 5:30pm - 7:30pm ET 
  • 120 min
  • Free 
  • This webinar is recorded and made available within 24 hours of the presentation. 
Let’s get into the mix! 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 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.

Submit your work! We’ll choose a few pieces to listen to, and our panel will discuss the piece with you and give feedback. At the end, we’ll open the floor to audience questions and discussion.

Key Takeaways

  • What to listen for in a mix
  • Creative problem solving
  • The pieces of the puzzle; when to use different sonic elements to tell a story

Who is this 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, WNYC, Prologue Projects, Pushkin, Vox, 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 PANELIST

Rob Byers

Rob Byers is an audio engineer, production consultant, and trainer. At Vox Media he was the Director of Audio Engineering and was formerly the technical director for Criminal Productions. Prior to working at Vox he was the Director of Broadcast and Media Production at American Public Media. He also trained audio producers around the country with NPR Training and has written educational guides for producers of all experience levels. He has recorded a variety of musicians, from Lizzo and Brandi Carlile to Yo-Yo Ma and Denyce Graves, helped engineer NPR's coverage of Hurricane Katrina from the Gulf Coast, and coordinated live international broadcasts from Cuba and Greece. He has enjoyed a long relationship with the Association of Independents in Radio and currently serves on the board of directors. In 2021, Rob was awarded the inaugural Audio Engineering Society's President's Award for his work on loudness in music streaming and podcasts. He is an avid cyclist, a not-so-avid runner, and recently took up sailing on Minneapolis's beautiful lakes.
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Meet the Panelist

Jeremy S. Bloom

Jeremy S. Bloom (he/him) is an Emmy award winning sound designer with over 10 years of experience leading the creation of immersive soundscapes for podcasts, installations, films, & theatrical productions internationally.

Jeremy's work includes originally commissioned immersive installations for The Statue of Liberty Museum, the Library of Congress, linguistics museum Planet Word, Manchester United, Spectrum Cable, Netflix’s holographic 3 Body Problem premiere, Punchdrunk International, James Taylor, and Carnival Cruises.

Jeremy won a 2024 Creative Arts Emmy for his design work in Ron Howard’s documentary “Jim Henson: Idea Man” and was nominated in 2019 for his work on the hit Netflix documentary “FYRE: The Party that Never Happened.” He has contributed sound design to critically acclaimed films for CNN, HBO, IMAX, Sony Pictures, Disney, Netflix and others.

Jeremy is a staff sound designer for WNYC Studio's award-winning podcast “Radiolab” and previously contributed sound design and original music for the beloved Queer podcast “Nancy” and comedy hit “Two Dope Queens.”

As an educator, Jeremy teaches sound design to the next generation of film directors at NYU Tisch’s graduate film program. He has presented at CUNY, SCAD, University of Toronto (Raw Talk Podcasting Festival), Harvard (Sound Education Conference), DOC NYC Pro, NY Music Month, and more.

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Meet the Panelist

Hannis Brown

Composer and sound designer Hannis Brown has created and mixed music for podcasts and radio programs including The Anthropocene Reviewed, Will Be Wild, KCRW’s Bodies, Scattered, The 11th, and The Paris Review Podcast.

Recent commissions and honors include a 2022 du-Pont Columbia award and NAACP Image Award for The History Channel and WNYC’s Blindspot: Tulsa Burning, 2019 du-Pont Columbia Awards for the New York Public Radio’s Trump, Inc and Caught, and a 2015 Peabody Award for production on the podcast Meet the Composer. He performs on 6 and 12-string guitar with the new-music collective Hotel Elefant. 
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