After years of working at a number of other audio facilities, leading LA audio post house Sound Rebels – known for such blockbuster animation shows as SpongeBob SquarePants and Teen Titans Go! – called on integrator and dealer Audio Intervisual Design (AID) to design, equip and install a new Dolby Atmos certified studios for its exclusive use.
‘Our acoustic designer and contractor suggested we speak with Jim Pace at Audio Intervisual Design,’ explains Sound Rebels co-founder and chief re-recording mixer DJ Lynch. ‘AID was able to pinpoint what we needed and recommend the right mixing console, the right loudspeakers, and all the ancillary gear we needed. We specified Dolby Atmos certified studios because Netflix and many other major studios are making that a delivery requirement.’
DJ Lynch grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and moved to Los Angeles to attend USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. His breakthrough in post audio came when he landed the job as sound editor and mixer on the television show Cops (1989) for Fox.
‘Jim came up with some really surprising ideas,’ Lynch continues. ‘He suggested we take the mid- and the high-range drivers from one JBL speaker model and pair it with the low frequency woofer of another. He explained that this configuration for Atmos was the right spec for our room size and the amount of sound pressure level that we needed. We have 14 speakers installed for the surround and overhead speakers – and they do sound great.’
The two new Sound Rebels stages – dubbed Victory and Triumph – are technically identical, networked for ease of operation for whatever their projects need. ‘The moment we plugged everything in and turned it on, it was flawless,’ Lynch recalls. ‘We played back some material that we had mixed at other studios and the translation was perfect.’
‘Lately, I’ve been mixing Teen Titans Go! for Warner Bros, as well as managing all our other projects like Camp Cretaceous and Fast & Furious Spy Racers for DreamWorks,’ says Lynch’s partner and supervising sound editor Rob McIntyre – also a ten-time Emmy and three-time Golden Reel Award winner. ‘Warners and DreamWorks were gracious enough to follow us here. SpongeBob and Teen Titans Go! are two of the biggest animated shows on television. So when we opened our new facility, we really hit the ground running.’
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