Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Re-recording mixers Larry Benjamin, CAS, Tim Hoogenakker, CAS and composer/music producer Dave Porter discuss their Emmy-nominated work on PLUR1BUS highlighting how the show’s sound evolves from hyper-real, full environments to sparse, quiet spaces as characters communicate via a hive mind.
They describe balancing extreme dynamics, using subtle Foley and ambience to fill dialogue-free moments, and crafting larger-than-life machinery and aircraft with abrupt cutoffs and detailed perspective shifts. Porter explains how reduced dialogue lets music come forward while still honoring loneliness, his composing workflow of looping scenes and improvising across instruments, and the challenge of mockups for an experimental small choir in Pro Tools.
They break down specific scenes, including futzed source music with reverb, a pilot cue tied to Carol’s discoveries and loss, jungle footstep detailing, and an Atmos airplane sequence guided by Vince Gilligan’s collaborative, experiment-friendly process.
00:00 Meet the Nominees
00:47 Building the Real World
01:11 Hive Mind Silence
01:48 Music vs Quiet
02:39 Dynamics and Foley Detail
03:06 Haunting Spaces
03:55 Perspective and Futzing
06:10 Composer Workflow
06:40 Choir and Vocal Experiments
07:28 Pilot Cue Breakdown
11:58 Audience Reaction and Pride
13:15 Episode Two Airplane Sequence
17:12 Why Mixing Matters
18:29 Creative Collaboration Finale
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Re-recording mixers Larry Benjamin, CAS, Tim Hoogenakker, CAS and composer/music producer Dave Porter discuss their Emmy-nominated work on PLUR1BUS highlighting how the show’s sound evolves from hyper-real, full environments to sparse, quiet spaces as characters communicate via a hive mind.
They describe balancing extreme dynamics, using subtle Foley and ambience to fill dialogue-free moments, and crafting larger-than-life machinery and aircraft with abrupt cutoffs and detailed perspective shifts. Porter explains how reduced dialogue lets music come forward while still honoring loneliness, his composing workflow of looping scenes and improvising across instruments, and the challenge of mockups for an experimental small choir in Pro Tools.
They break down specific scenes, including futzed source music with reverb, a pilot cue tied to Carol’s discoveries and loss, jungle footstep detailing, and an Atmos airplane sequence guided by Vince Gilligan’s collaborative, experiment-friendly process.
00:00 Meet the Nominees
00:47 Building the Real World
01:11 Hive Mind Silence
01:48 Music vs Quiet
02:39 Dynamics and Foley Detail
03:06 Haunting Spaces
03:55 Perspective and Futzing
06:10 Composer Workflow
06:40 Choir and Vocal Experiments
07:28 Pilot Cue Breakdown
11:58 Audience Reaction and Pride
13:15 Episode Two Airplane Sequence
17:12 Why Mixing Matters
18:29 Creative Collaboration Finale
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