So earlier this year, we get a call.

Our producer tells me it’s the sound guy on location at the CableONE “Satellite surprises” shoot. He wants to “make sure I’m covered.” I pick him up and he tells me he’s spent a bunch of time dropping various items onto BBQ grills. I ask him why. He tells me E.B. Lane Creative Director Mark Itkowitz wants it to sound as if a refrigerator was being dropped from the sky onto the grill and deck. With a healthy dose of good natured sarcasm, I reply that unless he plans on actually doing and recording just that, to leave it to me. That is after all what we do with sound here at audioEngine – turn imagination into reality.