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Here's the view from my position last night for a multicam doco shoot of a performance by Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser at a venue in Santa Cruz CA. Great show, crowd went nuts during the encore. The producer had wanted me to cover both doco/verite audio and music recording for the all-day shoot, but she not only listened to my concerns about that and hired a 2nd sound person (Ray Day) to do the doco stuff, she rented good cameras (HDX900), Lockits for all and let me roll my multitrack rig and deliver as files, with the cameras free and untethered to anything. Really nice change from either miles of audio/genlock/TC/video cabling or dinky-cams that can only be appro…
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Buenos Noches Ernesto. Welcome to jwsound. What a resume you have. In Hollywood we are put in boxes and get to do one thing only. Others here @jw do like you and wear many hats. We are a vast community here. I congratulate you on getting Walter Murch to visit your school. He is the man. I try to get many to read his books and articles. Don't worry about your english skills, most all of us need to improve. Thanks for introducing yourself to the group. CrewC
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After almost 40 years, I wonder why sometimes I'm still doing this. I enjoy the work when it goes well and then there are the other days. The day you are the lighting rod of the sound department. You set your boom and all you hear is the echo of the garage you are set up in front of and the lav sounds odd because it's on a sweat soaked t-shirt hidden at the neckline. Taking small hisses on all the wires, but at different times but the signal is strong and you aren't given the time to try to figure out the whys. Having only a couple of scripted lines then start wanting words on every set up. Working in tight hallways and everybody seems to want to be by the camera leaving …
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Sitting under a pop up today, in the pouring rain at Warner Ranch when a message from Christian Holm popped up on my email with a good idea, or so I thought. He asked me to start this because he feels his command of the english is a bit weak. He probably asked the wrong guy to do this as my english is dodgy at best. But... The idea is like "Who I am today", but discussing the music in your life as a window to ones personality and how it influenced you in any way shape or form. I hope I am expressing his idea right. Why not, seems fun enough for a rainy day in Hollywood. Music has always been a main ingredient and love in my life. My father loved the big bands and swin…
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Thanks! Ty Ford
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Austrian Audio, the manufacturer created by the AKG staff after being made "redundant" when Samsung acquired Harman, has been acquired by DPA. I remember the shock when I learned that R&D in AKG had been disbanded because, it seems, Samsung was only interested on the AKG brand for their "Samsung by AKG" stuff. Since Austrian Audio was created they have been launching very good products. (I haven't tried any of their microphones but a trusted friend did and he was really impressed). https://www.dpamicrophones.com/news/2025/dpa-microphones-acquires-austrian-audio/ Interesting times coming!
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I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I've just been informed that Eric Goldstein has passed away. I don't have any details at this time, but will forward when I do. Thank you. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326208/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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I found an interesting. (to me) video today at boingboing that I thought I would share and didn't know where to post it so I thought I would start WTF as a place to post the random, weird, and off subjects that we find interesting. This is an old clip from 63 Steve Allen Show with Frank Zappa playing the bicycle. http://afacemeltingblogofstaggeringriffage.blogspot.com/2009/06/frank-zappa-plays-bicycle-on-steve.html Enjoy or not. This may well be an old timer thing. CrewC
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I'm just shaking my head. Yes, it's in the style section. But still Tiny Microphones, Huge Presence Once a quirky accessory, small external microphones have become ubiquitous in social media videos. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/style/tiny-microphones-tiktok-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU8.PPXK.tlGWDrrNNv_c&smid=url-share
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Today, I have experienced a nightmare in a cooking show. Wireless & Induction Kitchen Some sort info's: Wireless was Sennheiser G3 (626 MHz - 688 MHz) and G2 (780 MHz - 822 MHz). Lavaliers was DPA 4061. I know, 780 MHz - 822 MHz isn't very good here; but usable. The kitchen was without any extra furniture, so the whole system (below glass surface) was expsosed (not visible to camera of course). When the chef was turned on the kitchen for cooking; wireless went crazy, both of them. The sound was something like huge noise gate, plus extreme denoise, plus extreme compression. Like RF swallow into black hole (use your imagination). …
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My friend Kelsey Zeigler is a fantastic sound utility and wonderful person. She has worked extensively here in Chicago and LA. Kelsey is a kind and thoughtful young woman who is loved by all and is always quick to make friends in every department. She’s a real gem and gift to our sound community. Unfortunately, she was recently diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer and will be going through the wringer with chemo, surgery and other aggressive treatment in the coming days and months. Like most of us she’s a freelancer and will be tremendously burdened by the cost of treatment and inability to work. Please support her via her Gofundme account if you’re able. Even $25 would h…
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I just got the email that I'd guess a lot of you received, saying that Location Sound Corp is now part of Trew Audio. I hope the deal went well for the many very long-time employees of LSC. It sounds like they will close LSC's Riverside Dr. location and move everything to Trew in Burbank. The people of LSC (and ASC before that) were really helpful to me when I was just starting out--anytime I got to LA I always made a pilgrimage to ASC and always learned something important when I did. Thanks folks--best of luck to Trew et al!
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I figure some people here will find this interesting. Cool pictures from now. A couple archival videos from 2012. Also, this is happening at the United State Library of Congress. Restoring the Buchla 100 August 26, 2024 Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres The following is a guest post by Andrew Northrop of the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London (UCL). In March 2024, the Library of Congress’s Buchla 100 synthesizer was restored through a project between the Library’s Music Division, technician Andrew Northrop from Slade School of Fine Art/UCL, the MEMS Project (Chip Flyn…
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The eagerly awaited second part of 'The Apple & Biscuit Show' interview with the brilliant, Oscar-winning Production Sound Mixer Simon Hayes is now available on all the usual podcast platforms, or to help us continue attracting such stellar guests, please listen and subscribe at: https://soundproducer.com.au/the-apple-biscuit-show-episode-007-pt-2-signal-to-noise-is-everything-simon-hayes/ It's impossible to decide what the most fascinating aspect of the discussion is; but Neil offering to grapple with Simon in the dojo, to decide who mixes the next James Bond film, is up there... VID-20241030-WA0000.mp4
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Nicely done show about the history headphones. I wish I could save a copy for my library, would make a good teaching tool. http://www.ligo.co.uk/evolution-of-headphones/#
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I have a teeny youtube channel where I talk about being a sound recordist and related stuff. https://www.youtube.com/c/SoundSpeeding Here are a few of my recent videos:
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I saw the Sennheiser marketing on WMAS last year. Are other companies adopting WMAS, or something like it? Press Release from today, Feb 15, 2024 (Link to report & Order below): FCC EXPANDS OPPORTUNITIES FOR WIRELESS MICROPHONE USERS New Rules Allow WMAS Technology That Enables More Wireless Microphones to Operate with Greater Efficiency -- WASHINGTON, February 15, 2024—The Federal Communications Commission today adopted new rules to allow a new, more spectrally efficient wireless microphone technology to operate. Wireless Multi-Channel Audio Systems (WMAS) use spectrum more efficiently than currently available narro…
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Article: Many Freelancers Don't Get Paid on Time. This California Bill Aims to Fix That
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From the website of a Northern California public broadcaster: === Many Freelancers Don't Get Paid on Time. This California Bill Aims to Fix That One of photographer Amanda Hibbert’s clients never paid her for a completed job. Writer Elizabeth Aaron once waited nearly two years for full payment. They are among the hundreds of thousands of freelancers in California with little recourse to fix a recurring problem: late — or no — compensation for their work. A state bill would change that by offering graphic designers, artists, videographers and other professional freelance workers some of the protections that payroll employees command…
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Since people die everyday in the course of life and many of us feel compelled to comment on those who have passed, I thought a thread/topic to cover this might be useful to the group. RVD mentioned the group of 3 concept of famous folks dying in 3's and so it seems true again as Dennis Hopper is about to ride off to the other side. What a career. A fiction writer couldn't make up the life of Mr Hopper. Well done Dennis. RIP CrewC
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Hi everyone. I will be attending Cannes this year (I leave 2 hours drive from Cannes, and incidentally I have a film selected in the ACID category). Anyone else from JWSOUNDGROUP attending? I also will be attending some of the CST conferences (especially the one with re-recording mixer Cyril Holtz.) Regards Fred
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I haven't managed to thank everyone personally but the last few days have seen an amazing amount of support donations from our members. Maybe my birthday, April 18th, triggered this, I don't know, but it is so appreciated! We have such a great group of sound people here who participate regularly on site and so many of our veteran members have generously offered so much good advice and help to many of our newer members. It is amazing that we can keep this all going considering how much "competition" there is from so many social media websites. I am aware that the legacy forum format is showing its age a bit but it seems to be still working quite well. So pleased that there…
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Hi all, I think it's a good idea to have one place for all news coming from NAB, including live streaming links, interesting products outside from production sound world etc. Looking forward to see what NAB has to show us this year. There will the famous party, right? Thank you, Vasileios
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And thanks for all you've done for us, and for me personally. Jim
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we are still shooting this one. First Netflix production in German. It's a fascinating story! Can't wait to see it this Winter.
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