#478: Nevin Steinberg // Hamilton Broadway's Sound Designer // Part Two
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In Nevin Steinberg's second episode, the award winning Broadway sound designer gives even more insight to some of your favorite Hamilton moments including The Yorktown dance break and the stuttering gunshots heard throughout the show. And get ready to have your mind blown as Nevin shares the evolution of the Satisfied rewind, from Lin-Manuel Miranda's very first demo to the layered masterpiece we all know and love today anddddddd he shares a secret (and creepy! and awesome!) Easter egg that I promise you don't know about.
While taking questions from the Patreon Peeps, Nevin talks a lot about how each sound is specifically chosen to tell a story, and even accents like cannon explosions and snare drums each have "their own personality."
Plus, Nevin talks about the steam whistle in 2023's Sweeney Todd revival, shares his thoughts on new cinema sound, explains his fascination with what it takes to be a great leader, and why when it comes down to it Nevin is only in it for the banter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage in Stages, Lynn Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamelcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Boots and cuts. |
| 0:06.0 | Boots and cuts. |
| 0:07.0 | Goose and cuts. |
| 0:08.0 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 0:09.0 | Ha ha ha. |
| 0:10.0 | Ha ha. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey friends, I'm Jillian and welcome back to the Hamelcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Today I'm wrapping up with award-winning Broadway sound designer Nevin Steinberg. Last week, Nevin walked us through the early stages of his career, starting by detailing what it was like to work with real-to-reel tape, and I am not kidding when I tell you, I was hanging on his every word. Talking about working all hours, just him in the ghost light, and, you know, a healthy fear of whatever lurked in the shadows of those old Harvard buildings. |
| 0:39.3 | But talking about it all brought Nevin right back to that time. He said as he was describing it, he could still taste the metal of the razor in his mouth, which out of context sounds alarming, but it actually makes total sense if you listen to the episode. episode. Nevin is such a thoughtful, captivating storyteller. And everything he says |
| 0:55.3 | is infused with, like, this gorgeous detail and a palpable feeling of both awe and gratitude. |
| 1:00.9 | It's contagious. You know how they say, how can you not be romantic about baseball? How can you |
| 1:04.9 | not be romantic about sound design? Right? So let's pick it back up with Nevin as he continues |
| 1:09.5 | to so generously share his Hamilton experience. |
| 1:11.6 | And get ready because you're about to hear the evolution of the satisfied rewind |
| 1:14.9 | and learn about one of the coolest and creepiest Easter eggs ever. |
| 1:18.3 | Here we go. Here's my second episode with the wonderful Nevin, I have so many, I've pages and pages of Patreon Peeps questions. |
| 1:36.2 | Excellent. I love that. Will you take some questions? I'd be happy to. Can't wait. |
| 1:40.1 | Patreon, Peeps, Wonder powers, activate. |
| 1:44.6 | Perfect. If I were wonder powers, activate. Perfect. |
| 1:47.2 | If I were shockwave, this would be much more impressive. |
| 1:49.3 | Yeah. |
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