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Back in my Coffey Sound days, I was amazed at the amount of things union production sound guys...making way more than I made, did not know. Basic signal flow and gain structure things. Not everyone is like that, mind you, but a lot are, and I found it frustrating, as a product specialist, do basically be that sound mixers extra third utility, over the phone. Granted, support for the customer was part of my job, but there are some folks out there that have no business at a sound cart, and yet somehow coast along from job to job and not get fired. Again, these are the minority. However, I found it frustrating to esentailly be doing that person's job via phone, and they get all the credit. I guess that's part of the reason I don't work at Coffey any more. It's not a bad place to work, but I moved here to do post, not other people's mixing jobs. -Dave

Boom op has some cool sandals.

i was thinking more along the lines of excretion than regurgitation or outgest. If your post has a bad workflow, then instead of digest, it could be acid reflux, as the problem will inevitably come back to you. If the re-recording mixing is going bad, then it's irritable bowel syndrome. If it's really bad, then it could be called blowin' mud, or sprayin' the bowl, or my personal fav....the nine wiper. Yes, I am no more mature than a 13 year old. I have three sons, but my wife says she looks after 4 boys. -Dave

true, but us sound effects guys would love to have a 4 track recorder with 4 mic inputs. However, at the price point, the 606 seems like it might be pretty cool. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

4 inputs and only 2 record tracks? would it have been that big of a deal to make it a 4 track recorder? I mean, there isn't a 4 track recorder out there right now with 4 actual mic inputs, and if the 204 would have 4 record tracks, they'd have a real winner on their hands.

Mick, I love the way you tell stories. -Dave

Many Outraged Soundguys More Oral Sex Most Obnoxious Set decorator

I agree. I am going to make the same sign for my desk at work.

Congrats Scott!! We just had our third baby. Regards to the topic.... I like to use tamper proof stickers with my name and phone number. If possible, I will open gear up (like a deva, or anything that doesn't void the warranty if you open it up), and engrave my name on the inside of the machine with my phone number. that way if the gear does get stolen, and the tamper proof sticker does get tampered with, there is still some sort of marking by me on the machine that is not obvious to the would be thief. -Dave

Actually, you don't need to use a sound proof stage at all. When recording cars, there are two methods that I have done. First: The axle dyno. Axle dyno's connect to the drive axel of the car. This is preffered over a drum dyno, as drum dyno's make excess noise. Axel dyno's work by taking off the wheels, and connecting the machine to the drive axel. They are computer controlled. I have done this at an auto tuning place, and we put the front of the car in the garage, with the tail of the car sticking outside so we don't get slammed with fumes. If the car has a turbo charger on it, you'll want to mic that. A mic at the firewall is also nice. You will need to do some engine revs and get your head in the engine compartment to find the sweet spots. You can record with the hood up. For the tail pipe (let's just go with a single exhaust), I usually put a 57 and 421 right on the pipe...well, pointed at it about 2 to 3 inches away, but off to the side. Some suped up cars will spit fire out the pipe, and fry your mic. I'll also use a variety of different mics anywhere from 3 to 15 feet from the back of the car. Positioning will depend on how the car sounds. Note: it is important that you use a dyno for stand still recordings because dyno's put a load on the car, making it perform in such a way that it would if it were on the road. If you just hoise it up and run it without a load on it, it won't behave normally, and therefore won't sound like it should. Second: Driving This is the easiest and cheapest way to get car sounds. I usually use a lav on the air intake, a lav on the firewall, a lav taped to the back bumper right above the tail pipe, and then a 421 or 57 on a magic arm positioned just off the pipe, but pointing right at it. Make sure you have good wind protection for everything. I usually wrap the lavs in foam, and zip tie them down where I need them to go. The thing to remember is that the type of car you are recording will dictate which mics to use. Also, some cars are so loud that you can almost get away with putting the mic anywhere near it and get good sound. -Dave

OMG! That was freaking funny. I loved that. some good one liners I'll have to remember.

Hee Hee. Frank said "hummer"...

There's another quarter. It's for that person that lives "over there". You know, the very friendly, pro american, alcoholic guy.

All right, I'll put my quarter in. Yes, I really like this forum. I think part of the success of this is due to the fact that most of us (at least me, anyway) actually know almost everyone on here on some sort of personal level. That, and you all are just a cool bunch of folks. -Dave

I know nothing about it, but if I were the employees at Wexler, I'd be worried. Usually when things like this happen, the company that bought the smaller company likes to make "changes", and they lay people off and get new people.

My wife calls my pro tools rig at home "the behemoth". I call it "giant magnet for dust". -Dave

Let's just hope Roberto doesn't find out about it. -Dave

This is why I work in post. I don't have to deal with these issues. I get to sit in my nice warm (or air conditioned) edit room all day and look out the window.....and then work occasionally.

There's not much I watch any more just because it's just too much drama. My personal favorite show right now is Battlestar Galactica, for many reasons. But, I find myself watching The History channel, the Discovery Channel, and National Geographic more than anything. My 2nd favorite show is "Dogfights", on the history channel. For those of you that haven't seen it, they take famous arial battles from different wars, and re-enact them with CG, and if the pilots are still alive, they actually have them re-tell the story with the CG recreation. It's a really cool show that gives people an insight into what it's like to be a fighter pilot. The WWII stuff is especially interesting. -Dave

For those of you that don't know me, I'm David Fisk. I used to work at coffey sound, but now I'm a sound editor for video games at Technicolor Interactive. I also do sound FX recording as well. Mostly car stuff for games.

Yeah. I really like the colts. They are a really smart team. Manning is the Michael Jordan of Football. I happy they won. They worked hard for it, and deserved it. I was happier that they beat New England, though.

Jeff, I didn't know you played the flute, and that your stage name was Herbie Mann.

LOOK! HAIR!

can you put up a "pictures of steve's tatoo" section?

Oh wow, I didn't know they would see the light of day. That's good. I wonder why they showed the checkout girl commercial as well. when I saw that, I thought that maybe they would air all of them, but they didn't. I didn't get paid much for the two that i did, maybe the mousetrap guys could toss some of the 10 grand my way. Either way, I'm proud to have something that I worked on make it to the finals for that, and then get some good airplay. I've missed all the other TV stuff I've done (fear factor, hell's kitchen), but now I'm eyeball deep in video game sound editing, which is a blast. Everyone go grab a copy of Gears of War for your XBOX360. I cut all the dialogue for that game. If you don't have an XBOX360, go get one. You can write it off on your taxes. And yeah, congrats to the colts! They really deserved it. One of our dialogue recordists here used to be a cheerleader for the vikings when Tony Dungee was the offensive coordinator there. He said Tony was the coolest guy. Was always very nice to everyone and treated everyone with respect..AND he never yells. that's unheard of in the NFL. -Dave