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We are celebrating the 16th anniversary of the JWSOUND site which continues to be a vibrant and highly popular resource for our sound community. I have seldom asked for donations to support this site , over the years there have been so many spontaneous and generous unsolicited donations it has been a real help in running the site. At this time I am asking for donations if you are able to as the expense of running the site has increased (hasn't everything except our wages!) I have never strived to monetize this site as many other sites have and there has been over the years substantial support from the paid advertising banners running on the site. Many of the companies tha…
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I am asking that those members that feel they can afford it to donate a small amount of money to help me with the costs of maintaining this Discussion Group site and CinemaSound. I have been able to manage on my own for the last 5 years to keep these sites up and running, upgrading the software that powers this forum, upgrading my server accounts, routine and some not so routine maintenance, but I could use some help now. I am asking for a donation of $10.00 (US) on a yearly basis to keep all this going. This is totally voluntary and no one should fear that either of these great sites will be taken down if no one donates. I am asking for $10.00 but any amount will be ap…
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For a few months my granddaughter CJ has been in a contest to become the next Junior Ranger. With a little over a day left she is 5th in her quarter final group. She needs to be in first to move to the finals. Today happens to be two for one votes and I'm pulling out all the stops to try and get her to the next round. Voting is free unless you want to make a donation which yields more votes. CJ has visited a National Park every year since she was a baby. Now she's eight. https://jr-ranger.org/2025/cj-09eb Thanks so much! If this post isn't allowed please move or remove.
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I am very sad to report that the love my life, my sweet Carol, has passed away. Many of you know her and have worked with her, Unit Still Photographer Carol McCullough, retired for many years now but never on Facebook. She had a fall, one of many, and was in rehab getting Physical Therapy and had a stroke from which she did not recover. We were together for 35 wonderful years with no loss of love, through wonderful times and not so wonderful times -- I miss her so much.
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The Las Vegas audio community suffered a great loss today with the passing of Paul Hoggatt. Among other things, Paul was the ringside lead A2 for HBO Boxing for over 30 years. He never had anything but a kind word or some helpful advice for anybody who was wise enough to listen. His devotion to his work and his friends was legendary and he will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
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The title says it all.
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This would be great if it were true, but this is the first time I have heard this story, and the article does not have any references. Does anyone know if this was indeed the first use of a boom on American feature films? http://inventors.about.com/od/audiowaxrecordstomp3/p/Dorothy-Arzner-Boom-Microphone.htm
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I still find recording studio's fascinating. Here is a tour of Peter Gabriels Real World Studios with bassist Leland Sklar.
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Peek inside Honda’s radically efficient, energy-producing smart home http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/honda-smart-home-inside/#ixzz3h83J8AtO
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I just heard that Chris Newman has died, February 3rd. My father gave Chris one of his first jobs in sound on the movie "Medium Cool". Chris had done some documentary work and my father had already decided that "Medium Cool" would be shot very much in a documentary style during the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968. Chris was helpful in the beginning of my career in sound but I realized in hindsight that I learned a lot more about the politics of sound mixing than I did about actual sound mixing. In retirement Chris was a great teacher and was very generous, even throughout his working career, with his knowledge and experience (and opinions!).
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Congratulations to Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett for their Oscar win for best Sound! And congratulations to all the nominees for their fine work on Belfast, No Time to Die, West Side Story, and The Power of the Dog. For all the details: https://abc.com/shows/oscars/news/winners/oscars-2022-nominations-sound
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I wish you the best of luck, you're gonna need it.
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The site is experiencing problems now after a software update. It may be affecting Safari primarily as I am using Chrome now to make this post (I do not typically use Chrome). We're working on a fix. Sorry for the disruption if members are having problems. - JW
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My co-presenter colleague Jason Nicholas and I are thoroughly delighted to announce that Part 1 of our 'Apple & Biscuit Show' podcast interview with Oscar-winning Production Sound Mixer Simon Hayes, is now available on all the usual podcast platforms; or better still, subscribe with us directly and help us to build our audience and continue to attract such important guests. (It's free...) Hear / subscribe / here: soundproducer.com.au/the-apple-biscuit-show-episode-007-signal-to-noise-is-everything-simon-hayes/ In this episode, we talk with Simon about his demanding work on location film sets and deep-dive into Simon’s philosophy and approach to modern locati…
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Thank you to all those who have just donated to support JWSOUND -- I truly appreciate every one of you, for your donations, of course, but more importantly for your participation in our long running online community. I believe that JWSOUND is still a special place even in today's world of massive proliferation of social media.
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Published on Mar 21, 2018 A young startup called Relativity is pushing space technology forward by pushing 3D printing technology to its limits, building the largest metal 3D printer in the world. And other major companies anxious to try these new ways of manufacturing, too. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien looks at some of the amazing advances that is launching the technology into a new era.
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I'm in shock, still cannot fully understand how this happens.
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Is anyone covering sound at IBC? Haven’t seen much posted. Is it all on Facebook?
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I know it has been a tough time for many people in our industry but please remember to support this site with whatever donation you are able to contribute. Jeff works very hard and has spent much time/money to make this site a great resource so please consider donating to help You can visit Jeff's donation link below or use the "Donate Button" on the home page. https://donorbox.org/donate-in-support-of-jwsoundgroup
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I am celebrating the 18 year anniversary of the JWSOUND site. I started the site in 2006 in response to the almost total meltdown of our beloved r.a.m.p.s. group. It was pretty much an immediate success with almost everyone who was on the newsgroup coming over to the JWSOUND site. We have a core group of members that go all the way back to the beginning of the site and are still with us, participating and contributing so much to our sound community — for this I am so grateful! We've had a few bumps in the road, a few updates that went badly, always striving to make things better for our members. We improved the Search routines, still not perfect but coupled with Googl…
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Sad to say that Evan passed of a heart attack yesterday and will be greatly missed in our audio world. Truly a great, knowledgeable, and kind man I’ve known for many years. RIP Evan
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/23/john-mayall-blues-dies
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