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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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California on Track to Increase Film and TV Tax Credits By $330M The proposed legislation would reserve $150 million of that amount for new soundstage construction. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/california-on-track-to-increase-film-and-tv-tax-credits-by-330-million-1234981114/
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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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The only sound department listing I can find so far is Tom Fleischman. I would assume that the sound department is well staffed!
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1899 shooting-day 1 today. Excited to mix this new adventure from the creators of DARK. https://deadline.com/2021/05/1899-netflix-creators-dark-talk-europes-largest-virtual-production-stage-multilingual-series-1234747377/?fbclid=IwAR3AKMQBqxhL2IGUh4GWjGypZjVVHYih2SV8fUoqIaSEamtf9FvqYrvfOzc
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Sound Summit starts at 10am CDT April 22nd https://thesoundsummit.org/
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On Saturday, February 13th, Hank Garfield suffered a serious stroke and was taken to nearby Saint Joseph’s Medical center in Burbank, CA. Hank is in the Acute Recovery ward which is a state of the art stroke recovery center. He is undergoing many hours of daily physical, occupational and speech therapy and is on his way to making a long recovery from this serious event. I believe Hank will be in the hospital for another month or two as he pushes forward with his recovery. I know many of you older mixers and boom ops know Hank from his days as a cable man, boom operator and later as a film sound mixer. I have personally known Hank for 33 years. When Ha…
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In case you're not tired of the topic, here's a column from today's issue of The Guardian, prompted (I guess), by Nolan's new book. ==== Tenet up: listen, Christopher Nolan, we just can't hear a word you're saying The Tenet director has dismissed critics of his poor sound mixing by blaming us for being too conservative. Why must he keep toying with our perception of sound? We’re all aware of the impossible situation that film currently finds itself in. Screens started shutting in the summer. This is because the big new movies have all been postponed. This is because movie studios are nervous about losses. And this is because Tenet, t…
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Congratulations everyone! From Deadline: Academy Awards Revealed For 17 Scientific And Technical Achievements; Virtual Ceremony Set For February
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I was doing a video today for Subway Restaurants International.... So guess what I had for lunch? LOL. You guessed it, tuna!! The rest of the crew wondered why I had a little chuckle to myself at lunch.
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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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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 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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Just curious. I play an AV65 jazzmaster & a 2003 AVRI jaguar through both a ‘62 and a ‘64 Showman (with D130fs of course) and a ‘63 reverb tank. (I’ve also got a ‘62 Twin but no place to really use it at the moment haha!) I love spring reverb and surf. My mom grew up in the Bronx and was 19 in 1960 when surf started in Southern CA, and she never heard surf on the radio! So sad. I grew up in Hawaii (mid 70s - 80s) and also never heard surf on the radio. Lots of you are in Southern CA and I am super jealous! They just had a three day surf festival around LA this past weekend. I’d say surf is a style more than a genre, because let’s face it…
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That Tremolux must have sounded great! And a 2X12 Bassman would be cool! What ever you do, don't click this link: https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=Bassman 2x12 Instead, buy local. Have you (or any of you) checked out Milkman Sound in San Francisco? Not Fender clones, but Fender inspired. https://milkmansound.com
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I have made a Zoom meeting available to members for use whenever they want -- you can join a meeting without a host. I put up links, both in the Sidebar and at the top of the site in the global header. Clicking on the link will take you to the JWSOUNDGROUP meeting (with the link you will not need a password). Feel free to invite others by directing them to use the link and you can then have a meeting together. So far, I don't think anyone has made use of this. Let me know if it all works and if this is useful for our members. LINK to JWSOUND Meet
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Recently, I found two sections of my Vdb XL-QT are unable to be locked tightly. Used indoor, the pole is alright, but when the blimp and windjammer are on, the two collars of the pole simply can’t hold the weight and those two sections would easily turn. I wonder why it happens. I rarely use this pole in unusual locations like the beach. Is there anything I can do to fix it by myself instead sending it back to Vdb or even purchasing a new pole? My appreciation.
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As previously discussed here. If you are into cars / have something interesting / working on a project and you're in the sound community, post here!?! My current projects! 1968 Ford F250 Camper Special Ranger // Factory Big Block FE 390 w/ C6 Automatic RWD Dana 60 3.54's out back (Has 60's Leer top and hay rails) 1970 (actually is a '69 titled as a '70 and sold on 4/10/70) Kaiser Jeep Wagoneer // Factory Buick 350 4x4 Dana 44's w/ TH400 Automatic (Was a vehicle for the Klamath Falls Regional Airport from '70 till '95 when it was mothballed and was kept in a hangar there on premises till I purchased it in 2017)
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Hey Everyone, Back in November, @Rachel Cameron reached out to me about featuring @Eric Toline on an episode of Skeleton Crew. So, I went down to Ft. Lauderdale and met her and Eric at his apartment. We had a good time listening to music, talking and eating some Chinese food. Here is the interview that came out of that (also available on all fine podcasting platforms):
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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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