McGowan Soundworks, Ltd.

07/24/2023

What a fun time we all had last week at the 15th Behind-The-Music panel at Comic-Con!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by!

06/26/2023

New interview alongside Stephen Barton and Freddie Wiedmann about season 3 of Picard!

The composers and score mixer on Season 3 of ‘Picard’ talk about how they worked together to recapture the classic ‘Trek’ sound.

01/04/2022

New Mix Walkthrough is live!
In this 7 part series, I breakdown my mix of “It’s Karate Time” from Season 4 Episode 9 of Cobra Kai.
Link Below!

08/11/2021

First Atmos TV score mix commencing!

Damn this is fun… 😈

04/18/2021

CAS Awards time! Fingers crossed for team Ozark!!

01/15/2021

New video is up now!

Join me as I show you how I mixed the Recorded-At-Home Choir on the Main Theme by Jack Wall for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War!

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the session choir singers here in LA were unable to join together to record in a studio so each of the 16 singers recorded themselves at home and sent in those recordings for me to mix with Strings, Brass, and Prelays. This presented a little bit of a challenge to make the choir sound as if they were recorded in a big studio so I had to work a little magic to make it work.

I even rock my default pandemic garb of Swoveralls and a T Shirt so you'll get the comfy vibes with me in my home studio.

Link in Bio!

01/14/2021

01/14/2021

Having some fun up at Dolby today...

01/09/2021

Alas, my first YouTube mix walkthrough is live!!

Come see how I mixed “Duel of the Snakes” from the end of Cobra Kai Season 3!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V1kT34_zQ4

Alas, my first YouTube mix walkthrough is here!This is a full overview of how I mixed one part of "Duel of the Snakes" from the final episode of Cobra Kai Se...

09/08/2020

Had the pleasure of joining Larry Benjamin and the rest of the Ozark mixing team for Greg "Stryke" Chin's podcast "The Audio Evangelist" a few weeks ago. Check it out!

Join host Greg “Stryke” Chin as he spends time with the Emmy® nominated audio post teams for Netflix shows Space Force (Season 1) and Ozark (Season 3). This special “back to back” team interview disc

09/01/2020

08/22/2020

The soundtrack for Antebellum is out soon and the first track is available to listen to. Had a blast recording and mixing this score, check it out on VOD steaming September 18th!!

On September 18th, Milan Records will release the score to Antebellum by Nate "Rocket" Wonder and Roman Gianarthur.

07/21/2020

Great podcast from the Dolby Institute about the sound of Ozark. Thanks again to Larry Benjamin for the kind words!

In the Netfix series Ozark, Marty and Wendy appear to have a normal suburban life, but that’s all a front for their real job: laundering money for a Mexican ...

07/11/2020

Confused about what exactly stems are? This article from Pro Tools Expert is an excellent overview:

Tom Bullen gives an overview of stems in music production - what they are, what they aren’t, why they’re useful and how you can consider using them to make your workflows more efficient.

06/26/2020

Great article on friends and clients Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans. All 3 projects mentioned mixed here by Phil McGowan!

Jason Bateman and Brit Marling explain how their “Ozark,” “The Outsider,” and “OA” composers allow them to explore the weird and ethereal side of darkness.

06/19/2020

Check out this article on the sound for Ozark.

Very grateful to get a little shoutout about the score mix from Re-Recording mixer Larry Benjamin!

Nick Forshager, Larry Benjamin and Kevin Valentine take you behind the sound of one of Netflix's most successful original series:

06/10/2020

Today we’d like to introduce you to Phil McGowan. Phil, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story. I’m originally from a small town in Maine called Waterville (yes, the same Waterville from Wet Hot American Summer). G...

03/27/2020

Ozark Season 3 is now streaming!

The perfect cure for your stay at home binge watching desires!

Proud of my work on this show with Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans!

03/16/2020

Knots won Best Documentary Feature at the Manchester Film Festival!

Sound Design, Dialogue Editing/Cleanup, & Mix done here at McGowan Soundworks!

Knots is incredibly proud to share that we won Best Documentary Feature at !

We are so thankful to the city of Manchester, the Manchester Film Festival, and everyone who came along to support our film.

Honoured to be among so many incredible films and most importantly to raise awareness about forced & child marriage in America. This is for all the survivors out there, for everyone who needs to know they’re not alone.

Ben Brewer Lora Smith-Ryan Michael Hennings Nina Van Harn Unchained At Last Tasneem SF Miriam Mayer Jasmine Lord Jayla Damaris Bella Waru Timothy Ryan Darmyn Calderon

02/24/2020

Anybody curious about how much work goes into crafting a film's soundtrack? Wondering what the difference between a mixer and an editor is? Watch this excellent video with part of the fabulous sound team from Ford v. Ferrari:

Supervising sound editor Don Sylvester and sound mixer David Giammarco walk us through their sound mixing process for Best Sound Editing Academy Award nomine...

01/25/2020

Honored to have mixed the score for Promising Young Woman by Anthony Willis - Composer. The film premiers tonight at Sundance!

Emerald Fennell’s is premiering tonight, 8:30pm at film festival. I was lucky enough to compose the score to this incredible flick🎶

03/27/2019

Check out Season 2 Episodes 4, 5, and 7 of The OA. Score by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans mixed by yours truly.

Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for a secret mission.

02/18/2019

Great time at the 55th Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards this past Saturday! Honored to have been nominated for Ozark and a big congrats to the mixing team for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for your win!

Phil McGowan and Leanne McGowan attend the 55th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards at InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown on February 16, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

06/07/2018

An interview with Score Mixer Phil McGowan (Ozark, The Defenders, Daredevil and Iron Fist & More)

04/13/2018

Excited to share that I mixed John Paesano's score for the Markus character in Detroit: Become Human. Can't wait to play this one!

In Detroit: Become Human, players will be able to control three very unique characters. Although Kara, Connor and Markus are all androids, they are of different makes and have a very different background and function in society. To emphasize these three very different stories, we decided to entrust....

01/11/2018

01/11/2018

12/17/2017

Behind the scenes featurette on recording the score for Tuntematon sotilas 2017 back in April featuring some actions shots and mini interview with Phil McGowan.

11/07/2017

Fantastic team of people and a great company!

To 'Blade Runner 2049' director Denis Villeneuve, sound design in movies is a dance between sound and images. Since the film opened Oct. 6, it's earned over $240 million at the worldwide box office against a $150 million production budget. Sound, he says, has a lot to do with the film's success.