Chris, well said. The main problem with the term Sound Designer is that unlike Supervising Sound Editor, or Re-Recording mixer, the term is still too vague. A big Hollywood film a few years back had at least seven credited sound designers, along with about eight others credited as things like supervising sound editors, supervising effects [...]

I still say its a bad idea to keep two awards because we are concerned about our ability to win those awards. If the voting members decide to vote for a musical, that’s the way it goes. We’ve seen that happen already in recent years. If we need to educate them more in sound as [...]

Don’t be afraid to write here, this is an open discussion for everyone. I would exclude the production recordist probably. Right now they would be included in the four mixer (three re-recording mixers and one production mixer). It is an interesting question though. I guess in my opinion the job of a production mixer is [...]

Not at all. I actually quite curios about the history of the term too. When I get closer I mean to ask quite a few people For additional information to help. 

Well I should say just in brief that I’m quite interested in the term itself, the use of it. Basically Randy I agree that it can and does mean many things. But it really seems to me these days that many people are taking it without it meaning any of the things we might mean [...]

Charles M., I absolutely agree that a mixer brings a fresh perspective to a project. I love being able to great mixer take my material and do things with it I can’t. I am not in any way insinuating that editors or designers mix their own material. But I am from the position of Charles [...]

Ben, I certainly didn’t mean to offend you. When I mentioned Arabic crowds, they were used because they were to some degree what we had available to us. I believe the loop group done was done mostly in English, and perhaps some in Persian. But we didn’t have a huge set of Persian crowds to [...]