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Hello, I'm currently doing some research in what direction to go in for choosing an upgrade for our current wireless systems that we use. They are still in working condition but trying to figure out which route I should go into. I use a sound device 633 and it's in great condition. The lav kits we use are a Sennheiser G2 and Sennheiser G3 kit. The G2 kit is looking a little rough and want to upgrade it. I was initially thinking going in the direction of purchasing a Sennheiser G4 kit. But wondering if we should towards more professional lavalier systems such as the Sound Devices A10-digital wireless system or even some kind of Lectrosonics wireless…
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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article
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Perhaps this should go in The Post Place? 😉 (I hadn't seen this before)
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I just mic’d up my first non human. I’ve done car tones/instrument panel sounds. Today I put a mic on a non-human robot. It’s just a lav mic in front of a speaker. Anybody else done this? With all the Ai talk, I thought I’d share my experience.
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This does not apply to union members in LA or New York as those cities don't use the Area Standards contracts. This year I volunteered for my local 478 ASA negotiations team, and I need proposals. My local will submit proposals along with all the other locals. Those proposals will be from all departments, and after a certain period no new proposals can be submitted. This time around locals are forming negotiation committees - any member can be on it! The best would be for every single local to get identical sound dept. specific proposals. That would make everyone's jobs easier because rather than arduously merge proposals, we soundies would be handing the…
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There're a couple of scenes in my coming project with the main actor chatting on his mobile with an actress whose voice has been recorded in another country. The reason we pre-recorded it is that the director wants the main actor to hear the actress' actual voice "IN THE MOBILE" rather than having someone of the crew to deliver the actress' lines on set. During the pre-production, the director will ask the actor to converse with the actress' pre-recorded lines to confirm each break he needs to say his lines and will create audio files scene by scene with enough space for the main actor for his lines. So the overlapping shouldn't be an issue. For playing back the audio fil…
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Can someone help me out with how the Zaxcom eco system works? From what I know, their stuff records to a 'propiatary' .zax file, that needs to be converted to BWF after offloading. Situation: Client shoots with 20+ Zax recorders (and no, I have no clue what kind of them, client is on vacation now, but I have time, so I want to be ahead.) My job is to autosequence them and put them into one giant 50 track / 24 hour+ BWF file. That's no issue, but converting all the inputs to BWF before I do my thing seems silly. I think .ZAX is plain PCM data, am I right? Can someone help me with some info on how things are stored? (Short testclips would be nice!) …
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A month ago I spent my day off with the great senator Mike Michaels. We had Chicken and Waffles and a great conversation. He is doing good but staying away from the internet. Which is admirable and something that I inspire to do. I snapped a photo which my Leica CL on a Kodak XX 5222 cinema B&W stock. Developed in Kodak Xtol 1:1 at 75F
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Does anyone have experience with payment via Stripe? An old client hired me for a one-day shoot (completed last week), said they would pay me directly, and now want me to sign up with Stripe. Half way through the sign up they want my DOB, SSN, bank info, and then there's a contract or contract-like document talking of fees and charges. I've emailed Isaac at Crew Mama, asking about such charges. So far, no response.
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A nice story: ‘Birds Are My Eyesight’ For some blind birders, avian soundscapes are a way to map the world around them. Increasing noise pollution is imperiling that navigation. ----- On an average morning, Susan Glass can sit on the patio at her condominium complex in Saratoga, Calif., and identify as many as 15 different bird species by ear: a steller’s jay, an acorn woodpecker, an oak titmouse. For her, birding is more than a hobby. “Birds are my eyesight,” said Ms. Glass, a poet and a professor of English at West Valley Community College who has been blind since birth. “When I check into a hotel in Pittsburgh, I might reme…
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I just read some Doctorow and was here and it reminded me of some of the tools services dedicated our craft. https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon
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Check out this awesome review on Zenith's clicker that used ultrasonic tones for battery free operation! https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month I wonder if one could design an analog instrument to generate Lectrosonics dweedle tones
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Everyone has their favorite scene from a movie. For me, it's this one…. It always reminds me of when I was a kid watching TV with my Dad in our living room. WHAT'S YOURS?
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I was having a discussion with (what I suspect is) a young filmmaker on a different forum. and he's asking for a way to crank the post sound levels up more than 30dB, 30dB being the current limitation of Fairlight. I asked, "why would you need to adjust post sound levels up +30dB? That sounds incredibly extreme!" I come from old-school Pro Tools where we were limited to I think either 10dB or 12dB without adding an extra Trim plug-in for additional range. Even 10dB for normal dialogue is exceptionally rare (to me). I did some quick math and came up to the conclusion that 30dB works out to 1000 times the intensity of a 0dB signal, (subjectively) 8 times as loud…
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Sound on. My first post... I've been searching for films that convey the life of a sound recordist, especially focused on natural environments and ambient sounds. I imagine an adventurous traveller recording mysterious sounds in obscure, silent places. 0 results. Unacceptable! The "closest" I got was Berberian Sound Studio (2012), a film I saw in an empty, silent cinema in Edinburgh in 2012 This is almost the opposite of what I am looking for, as it's based in a studio Another inspiration was Upstream Color (2013). Here there is this strange guy recording pigs and other unconventional natural sounds. He then uses the sounds in a synth instrument. …
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https://www.wired.com/story/tetra-radio-encryption-backdoor/ https://tetraburst.com/
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I will start with the main theme from "Get Carter". Roy Budd was the composer.
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this is totally off the sound-book but: I want to give a present to a UK family. My German family loves a game called „Scotland Yard“. Is this known amongst UK families or will it be (hopefully) a surprise?
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https://www.sciencealert.com/spacexs-starlink-satellites-are-leaking-radiation-scientists-confirm
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https://filmsound.org/foley/jackfoley.htm
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Saw this watching the morning news and really enjoyed the way they presented the story. Iconic, and you will recognize it even if you had no idea. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/an-iconic-hollywood-sound-effect-called-the-wilhelm-scream-was-uncovered-in-an-archive/
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So we all have this idea that around 1 kHz is the average freq for human voice. Maybe it's between 800 and 2,000 Hz? I've read how our hearing is particularly attuned to those frequencies because of this. My recent activities have brought this into question. I just got a free phone app called Pano Tuner, which features an active, moving note-and-frequency display. I've been experimenting with trying to hold pitches and guess at notes (learn perfect pitch), which is super fun. My lowest note is about 96 Hz in between A and G flat. (Throat singing can bring that down to about 56 Hz.) My absolute highest pitch is around 1446 Hz, between F and G flat. (But I have p…
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I've been in the location sound business for about 30 years, in the U.S. I've posted here a few times over the years on various topics. I'm re-visiting here now in Nov of 2022 checking to see if there's been any recent non-union "rate" discussions, as in compensation for work performed. I have found some old compensation rate discussions. So, have I just not searched here correctly? Anyone in the Definitive Know if there's a current discussion going on? Let me know. Otherwise... perhaps, in light of recent inflation, new discussions on compensation rates may be in order? Why my motivation know? I'm recently hearing of, and seeing in print online, some rates t…
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