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Hey guys, Thought you'd all appreciate some comics about the day to day life of working as a sound mixer in film/tv. http://chisound.net/citicomic.jpg http://chisound.net/pariscomic.jpg (yes, these are um...loosely based off my own experiences) -C.Low
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just love this one... http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/51602--famous-kurdish-singer-claims-opp-used-excessive-force-during-highway-takedown
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Bag work. Last Wednesday, I was on set at 8:00 am for an easy day and was home by 4:30 pm. At 7:00 pm, I was on another set and got home at 6:15 am Thursday. I was on my 3rd set at 8:00 am and got home at 6:30 pm. Up for 36 hours, then slept for 12. The calls came in and lined up perfectly, they were all fairly easy gigs, and I’d never been up for that length of time before, so I jumped. I expected to wake up Friday morning feeling jetlag-like for the whole day. Instead, I woke up feeling better than I usually do. All 3 jobs kept me busy, not stressed, and I never sat around waiting for things to happen; I just kept working. I’m about as average as one can be, a…
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I was just at a Hawaiian festival in Redondo Beach and as usual, to my ear, the mixing was very inadequate ( I'm being kind) It occurred to me that as a professional sound mixer with years of music and dialogue experience, I am unable to listen to live music anymore without wishing at least some part of it was mixed better. I listened to the new Journey line-up last night on Palladia TV and was appalled at the mix. I know it's TV but doesn't the TV mixer take a feed from the front of house console? The keyboard part in "Separate Ways", a Journey standard and an integral part of the arrangement was completely lost. I'm resigned to the fact that it's a rare occasion that…
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cross posting from ramps: http://kidinthefrontrow.blogspot.com/2009/07/noah-timan-sound-mixer-interview.html#comment-form
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I was reflecting today on how much the equipment we use has evolved over the last twenty years or so, but more on the way in which we are almost obliged to embrace new technology with obsolescence built in. I was chatting with Glen Sanders a few days ago, lamenting the demise of my backup Deva 2 which only a few short years ago cost me $10k and which is already an electronic dinosaur. Back in the day the only upgrades we had to cope with were stereo and then time code nagras. Not nearly as big a deal as the upgrades currently available from Deva 2 to Deva 5 to Deva 5.8 to Deva Fusion, not to mention the advancements in SD machines and Cantar etc etc. I'm not saying of cou…
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Seems like an interesting question. What would you have done if you didn't go into this business? Since I started this I'll go first. I would have loved to open a bait & tackle shop on Nantucket or in the Bahamas. Don't laugh, I was a partner in one 30 years ago in N.Y. Eric
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I posted this last year... Were someone, for some inane reason, to compile a list of people who qualify as being "a waste of space, " then surely film critics would be top ten material. I watched in writhing agony this weekend as two dorky, smug, superscillious individuals barely old enough to remember what real movie stars and good movies used to be, tried to out -intellectualize and out-pontificate each other in their rambling so -called critique of current movies. If the opinions of these pathetic wannabes are the best the networks can come up with in order to cater to the film going public then we should all stay at home and watch re-runs of the Andy Griffith Show.…
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People my age that grew up in the good old USA have seen so much transition and change from post WWII until now that it boggles the mind. Walter Cronkike was a huge part of those time's for me. Rest in Peace Mr Cronkite. Personally I am surprised that you lasted so long seeing what the so called news has transformed into. You set a high bar that sadly looks like it will never be beat again. Class act in my book. Big fan. CrewC
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Cross-Posted from IndieTalk Forum: Hi all, Please excuse me, but I have to get this off of my chest. What is it with Producers and Directors who relegate the sound of their films to an after thought? Without sound a film is just a bunch of pretty pictures without meaning. And yet many refuse to budget a reasonable amount of money to the sound of their project. I get at least a dozen requests each week to do work on a project for credit and promises of future paying work, which, of course, never materializes. "But it's a great project!" If I had ten bucks for every time I heard that I would have paid off my studio by now! It cost me over $50k just to sonical…
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"United Broke My Guitar" Pretty funny video done by a musician whose $3500 guitar was ruined by UA (he even saw them do it), who then stonewalled him. He vowed to make songs/videos about his experience and youtube them--this is the first of 3. His experience getting an airline (esp UA) to take responsibility for anything pretty much mirrors mine, but his response is WAY more effective probably than just doing the phone thing with a string of disinterested employees. Philip Perkins
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Includes a paean to The Conversation: Conjuring up images of Gene Hackman as the surveillance expert in Francis Ford Coppola’s film “The Conversation,� Mr. Morton moved through the park surreptitiously for more than 40 days over the course of a year, capturing gospel choirs, park-bench arguments, the rattle of dead leaves and the heartbeatlike clack of lawn-bowling balls. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/arts/06sound.html
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A very Happy 4th of July to all the freedom loving folks here @jwsound and around the world. CrewC
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For the first 15 years of my sound career, whenever we had to do playback in a scene it was done with a Nagra 4.2., and a speaker system. The tracks were set up in the same way we do it today with 3 or 4 pops, then whatever the recording followed the beeps... The trick was to play and rewind this ribbon of sound from start to finish and points in between, then back again, many many time in the course of the shooting day. Most of us got good at it or at least able to do it. There were tricks to doing this, like using splicing blocks and tape to mark stops, stops, and points within. All of this was time consuming to set up and the re/set for playback was as well.... Sometim…
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Let me set the scene: Commercial/Promo shoot. Small to medium size crew. Pretty standard morning, 1 to 2 talent, wireless and boom, audio and TC to red camera, back up on 744t, transcription record as well, feed to VTR, comtek feeds, etc... We're waiting during a change over while the grips set up a green screen. The Director decides to make a joke and announces aloud to the crew in the room: "Hey guys, what do you think is easier, VTR or Sound?" ...Mostly silence ensues. No one chimes in. I look over at the VTR (good guy BTW) who I've worked with on a number of shoots and sort of shrug my shoulders in a "what a douche bag" sort of way. I don't say anyth…
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SAG voted in the new Theatrical contract today with 78% approval. Read more here:http://www.sag.org/tvtheatrical-negotiations Maybe we can all go back to work now... OH Wait .... The Economy is still in the Crapper. Oh.. Well... -----Courtney
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My acceptance of the temporary position of teacher and guide in the production sound class at the Media Workshops, a post normally occupied by Mark Ulano, led me to seek out help from a number of sources in the audio world, and I was so impressed with the quantity and quality of support from a wide variety of sources. Mark himself has been a veritable font of assistance and information and I'm interviewing him on video for a DVD presentation this weekend. Jeff Wexler allowed me into his home to videotape his cart and I was greatly entertained by all of his anecdotes and production stories, all of which I captured on video for the class. Larry Long also donated a wealth…
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these people are polite, I get presented with one choice nowadays... and its not mine
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I know we've discussed the Christian Bale "Terminator" rant here before and that it sparked a discussion on rights to privacy that actors should (and usually can) expect on set. Well, Christian is talking about it again, and mentions the understanding that actors have with us regarding eavesdropping. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/30/christian-bale-terminator-salvation-rant
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May the weekend find you in good health, enjoying your family and friends. Please take a moment to reflect and give thanks to all of our Veterans and their families who gave of themselves for our country. The long march of creating a more perfect union is their legacy. Well done Vets. CrewC
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As some of you may remember, I contemplated purchasing a CD replication company here in Austin this year. As I started to figure out how to grow the company, I realized that the more involved I got into the film/video projects, the more I ignored the music side of things that I really enjoyed. I decided that I needed to get back to the basics (for me at least) and get more involved in the music scene again. I made a few calls and let people know I was still around and introduced myself to a few people who I didn't know. Turns out that was a great decision. This week I'm recording an orchestra at our fine arts house, and in a couple of weeks, I have a full day of recording…
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Well I just got out of a screening at the Chinese Theatre for Terminator 4 Salvation. Nice Job Mark and your crew for recording a lot of whispery dialogue in what must have been some pretty hostile sound locations. However it was hard to listen critically because the movie was simply TFL. (too F**kin Loud) Take earplugs with you if you want to save yourself temporary hearing loss. I think it has more explosions bullet hits and vehicle crashes per second than any film I have seen in recent history. And when the HKs weren't rumbling overhead firing Cannons or the TermiGators weren't sloshing around in the lagoon, the Music was cranked up to Hanz Zimmer Threshold o…
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I saw two movies recently, and although my opinion of them as movies is immaterial, I saw that they were both mixed by my old friend Peter Devlin and that second unit on both films was mixed by our posting colleague Phillip Palmer. Star Trek sounded great, and the mix was very much in tune with the pace and energy of the film. I spoke to Peter about it and although he had some wardrobe issues to deal with, the dialogue was crisp and very legible, fitting in harmoniously with the music and FX. Peter and Phillip's other film was Angels and Demons, a movie that was spoiled for me by the occasional merge of the dialogue into a morass of music and FX rendering some scenes u…
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For those of you finding a little time on your hands, and with an interest in the history of recording - furthermore the history of Natural History recording – this programme was recently broadcast by the BBC.(just under 30 mins.) http://www.soundcan.com/Ludwig Koch.mp3 Mutt n’ Jeff
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