Daytime Emmy Nominated re-recording mixer James Parnell was nominated for his work on Netflix’s Trinkets. As such, we decided to speak to him about the challenges and rewards of working on this series. Trinkets follows the story of three teenagers who find an unexpected connection when they all land in the same Shoplifters Anonymous group. James’ past projects include Academy Award winner Moonlight and Hulu’s hit comedy PEN15. Ames: Talk to us about your job as a re-recording mixer. James Parnell: Well, people go out and record production sounds, dialogue for shows or they’ll go out and record custom sound FX and then the re-recorder mixer’s job is to receive all of that and re-record those sounds and blend them together. In this day and age, you’re working with teams of people, teams of editors — dialogue editor, sound effects editor, foley editor, music editors, background editors — whole teams of people working on TV shows these days. Oftentimes, you’re working in pairs of two, so you’ll have a partner who is either mixing dialogue and music or you’ll be mixing dialogue and mixing and they’ll be mixing sound effects and background and foley and together your job is to mix the sounds that have been recorded from the show, blend them together and try to get the most cohesive soundtrack possible so that you’re telling a story but also elevating the experience that a listener has.