Podtalk: Katie Waters For a Tour of Noisefloor Sound Solutions

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CHICAGO – One of the great partners of local filmmaking in the Chicago area is Noisefloor Sound Solutions. The company provides the ambience for storytellers not only in cinema, but for the wide range of creative endeavors in the 21st Century … including TV, Web Series, Video Games and of course, Podcasts.

Starting with just two sound experts in 2005, Noisefloor has grown to a 13 person staff of sound designers, music composers, producers, audio implementors, mixers and location recordists. The team has brought their talent and passion to such projects as the films “Hoop Dreams,” “Apollo 13” and the recent locally produced ”Single Car Crashes”, in addition to the HALO series of video games. With their variety of sound services, Noisefloor’s client list ranges from Coca Cola to EGO to The Big Ten Network to Warner Bros.

Noisefloor Sound Solutions
Photo credit: Noise-Floor.com

Katie Waters is a Foley Artist (reproducing Sound Effects) and provided the tour of Noisefloor’s expansive facilities for me. She began at the company in 2016 as Studio Manager, and has also been a producer on projects for the sound and music tracks. In 2021 she was promoted to in-house Foley Artist. Our tour concluded in their podcast studio, where we conducted the following interview about Noisefloor and her work.

In Podtalk with Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, Foley Artist Katie Waters talks about Noisefloor Sound Solutions, and quality of the Podtalk emanates from their in-house podcast studio …

In a clip from the video portion of the Podtalk, Noisefloor’s sound services are described …

By PATRICK McDONALD Editor and Film Critic/Writer HollywoodChicago.com pat@hollywoodchicago.com