Audio Post: Weston Fonger and Angelina Powers Open Sound Goods

Weston Fonger and Angelina Powers have launched Sound Goods, an audio publish and sound design studio. The companions, who teamed on award-winning audio mixing and sound design work whereas at Vinylmix, will proceed to work in tandem as a sound designer/mixer and government producer, respectively.

Fonger is a veteran of the New York audio publish scene. He was the founding mixer when Vinylmix was launched in 2017 because the audio publish arm of the worldwide music powerhouse Yessian Music. He explains that he and Powers are launching Sound Goods in response to a wide range of components. “First off, the character of how work within the publish manufacturing sector is completed has radically modified,” he notes. “We assume in some ways the brand new prevailing attitudes concerning distant workflows have supplied lots of new alternatives that simply weren’t there earlier than. If we’ve realized something on this time, it’s that our purchasers worth flexibility and reliability.

“Angelina and I really feel we’re uniquely poised to tackle the challenges of the present local weather as a result of we could be so lean with our overhead whereas remaining nimble and accommodating, each remotely and in-person as wanted.”

Adds Powers, “After working so intently for the previous half-dozen years, we intuitively perceive and respect one another’s strengths and talent units. Based on this, we had been able to do all of this on our personal.”

Fonger’s listing of credit is broad, together with all the pieces from Super Bowl spots and advert campaigns to initiatives like serving as supervising sound editor on Taylor Swift’s 1989 World Tour documentary, or collaborating with acclaimed animator Bill Plympton on quite a few movies. He’s additionally crafted immersive soundscapes for experiences reminiscent of NYC’s One World Observatory, Hudson Yards’ Edge and plenty of different sights and installations worldwide.

Prior to becoming a member of Yessian as employees mixer in 2011, he spent various years freelancing for purchasers and publish homes in New York, a stint following his formative time at Audio Engine and Howard Schwartz Recording.

Powers has over 20 years of mixed expertise in music manufacturing, audio publish manufacturing, live-action manufacturing and enterprise growth. Prior to becoming a member of Yessian and Vinylmix as a producer, she was in a gross sales function at Comma Music, and earlier than that she was a companion within the unbiased repping agency SuperPowers. During her profession, Powers has held illustration roles with corporations reminiscent of Chelsea, Commercial Artists Management and the legendary artistic editorial firm Red Car.

Powers says the newfound independence that she and Fonger have at Sound Goods opens them as much as a brand new world of potential collaborations, “whether or not that’s a music home, a direct to model venture, a artistic company or working with manufacturing corporations, publish homes, VFX and animation studios, even social media influencers.”

Looking ahead, the companions say they hope to domesticate an unique, numerous pool of high expertise “that we will characterize with a barely completely different mannequin than exists within the present paradigm,” Powers notes, including “Community is such an essential a part of how we thrive and join in a service trade like ours, and constructing that like-minded group is a high precedence for us.”

Their first member of this troupe might be a well-recognized face: mixer and sound designer Jarrett Farkas, who might be represented by Sound Goods. His profession consists of quite a few advert campaigns in addition to mixing episodes of the PBS sequence Live From The Artist’s Den and sound design, music and blend collaborations on over 40 unique brief movies for the favored animated sequence, TEDEd.

The studio might be working Avid Pro Tools 2024 HD with an MTRX Studio managed by an Avid Dock. Speakers are all Genelec 8040s, 8030s and 7070 sub. They are a Mac-based studio and run a ton of plugins.