In this episode, we welcome Chris Welcker, CAS. Chris is an Emmy award-winning Production Sound Mixer who has worked on projects including Sinners, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Daisy Jones & The Six, Where the Crawdads Sing, Bill & Ted Face the Music, Mudbound, Patriots Day, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Deepwater Horizon, Jurassic World, and 12 Years a Slave. In our chat, he shares on his career path, about the art of recording sound on set, and behind-the-scenes of his incredible work on Sinners.

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