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When I lateralled from music to film in the mid eighties and started doing commercials and documentaries, I used to enjoy being as close to the set as possible. There was a certain attraction in being an integral part of the film making process in which I was proud to be involved. As the years went by and the inevitable erosion of my naivete occured, I took a proportionate step backwards, physically. As more time passed and the perspective broadened I became less and less impressed with myself and more disconnected from the collaborative process other than that within my own department and whatever was necessary to produce a high quality product, resulting in even greater…
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I am going to Vegas for a job next week, arriving Tuesday evening, shooting Wednesday and Thursday and heading back to LA Friday. I don't expect the days to be long, so thought I'd find out if anyone on JWSOUND would be in town and would be interested in getting together for a drink. Robert Sharman (818) 304-3066
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If you are interested, i posted a report on my Blog plus pictures on my site of my new bag i just finished. Visit www.pascalvs.com Pascal Pascal Van Strydonck Concepteur et consultant Audio Designer and Consultant 514.755.1900 Email: pascal.vs@mac.com Website: www.pascalvs.com
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Hey guys, any comments, thoughts, ideas, as to how the auction of the RF blks in question, will affect us in the very near future? one of my client/buddy sound mixers, has a venue rack (27/28) w.(6) 28's, and he is leaning towards doing the exchange deal for the vrt's $388 ea., for brand new units ,w/a 1 year warranty. and then get his Vrm, retuned (480.00?) to the 470-blk26 range. and of course his um400's re-tuned as well. probably divide the blocks in pairs, 4 in 2 blks per, or split evenly, at (3) per. Later,
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I just activated a new member named Heather Marshall ... I am hoping this is a real person who wants to join our group. We'll see what happens. - Jeff Wexler
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This is what I go through everyday now on this site, often up to 10 spam-bot registrations waiting for approval. There is no way I am going to approve a member whose email address is "pornstarlickmyass @ geemail.ru". So, I have to just reject all these but I can't find a way to stop them all together except to suspend the online registration procedure. It is really just annoying for me since I have stopped anyone from actually signing up and posting. - Jeff Wexler
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Well, actually this is just a history of the sound carts I have built over the last 38 years. <img src="http://api.ning.com/files/i*B6Na7AziTzL1jFYrQOtkauyVx4rGPKeq5WWn4TsTDuiLUpUadRHGkTZDsrrYYxP3*JTHvdM7ZB2AH*Cgj8RRFqTEUZzi9C/cartno.6.2.jpg" alt="" width="338" height="225" style="float: left;"/> I have posted a history of the sound carts I have built over the last 38 years. Take a look at it <a href="http://web.me.com/jwsound/Site/soundcarts.html">HERE</a> I have completed construction on a new sound cart and I will be putting up images in this article in the next day or so.
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Wishing you all a New Year that brings you good health & happiness.. It's a good time for me to say thank you to so many un named & Jeff Wexler for your foresight, past knowledges, stellar work ethics and your contribution to my and others successes. Wishing you and yours good health & happiness and a flourishing and Prosperous New Year (My new year wish) --- Zaxcom Deva 16 & Fusion --- Sincerely Ron Scelza C.A.S.
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I have just cross over to 2009 here in Singapore !! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL, MAY YOU HAVE MANY MANY GOOD SOUNDING YEARS/EARS AHEAD !! Alan Chong
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2 weeks ago I said to Marydixie, "We haven't done much HD this year..". Bang. Pow. 5 of the last 8 days have been with the 'Red'. I have used them all. I like the Red as far as it goes. The files I heard off the camera were fine as far as i could tell. It wasn't a great system we saw n heard the shots from. The build was 17.something. I gave the camera line level off my Cooper 106. I mixed a little down to be safe. The Raw filess looked great. Money for productions of stuff like most commercials can be 'Tamed' with new work flows like this, but if you screw up, you screw the pooch as far as $$$$ goes. Time will tell. I know my Deva4 recordings are good. CrewC
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_en_mo/hollywood_labor Interesting article about SAG strike.
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I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas And a Happy & busy New Year. Also a Happy Hanukkah. God Bless to all Keith
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Got home last night after a fine day of work and found the new Coffey Audio Files waiting for me. Really well done. Give the staff a raise. All the articles were interesting to me, but knowing Rich Van Dyke for all these years, I found his to be outstanding. His dedication to the craft is on full display in the article. I just wish I hadn't read it all last night, now I only have my NY Times to read today. Oh well, as RVD would say, "Cheers". CrewC
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Just saw 'Cadillac Records' yesterday. Reminded me how much I love music and the power it has for people all over the world. As I was jamming TOD into the slates this morning I realized today is the sad day we lost John Lennon 28 years ago. His music continues to inspire all these years later as does so many who are still performing and those who have passed like Muddy Waters. Long live music and it's power to move and connect us all. CrewC
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I have a 6:00 am call in Santa Clarita. 1 plus hr commute from No Orange Co. Rain all day as I sit under a pop up finishing a three day American Truck commercial. Most around me seem miserable. As we wait out a down pour, I think back on the long weird year that has been 2008. Lost friends and my father which is natural, but so are floods. Still hurts. War, Greed running amuck, People loosing jobs, homes, 401 k's.... How come I feel so good? Maybe it's my nature. Or perhaps it is because I have many good friends, and a huge family. Maybe it is because I see our country rising to a challenge, one most of us have never faced. Maybe just my love of Pacific rain storms... Mi…
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When i miss a day or two, i cannot see a list of messages that appeared on the board - listed out, and have to go through each category and even then it is difficult to sort out what was posted over the last two days... hopefully there is a way out to tend to this situation? best regards -vin
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Non-partisan. All-volunteer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifG6LeOTyJ8 thanks for looking Philip Perkins
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I get off on new technology, especially when it makes my job more interesting -- fun even. My intel Mac-Mini that I use primarily for Boom Recorder as my backup is also a cool place to try stuff out. I've been experimenting with "Spaces" where I have the screen in a quadrant to observe four operations at once. The screenshot I've attached shows you what I'm doing. Quadrant 1 is Boom Recorder. Quadrant 2 is Studio Manager of my Yamaha 01V96 where I can see the mixer operating in real time. Quadrant 3 is the Fireface 400 mixer, where I can see the inputs and outputs of what's going to Boom Recorder. Quadrant 4 is the Camera's video transmitter - I get that through m…
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Hi all. . . It's been a lot of fun reading what some of you folks are saying about poor little ol' me here in Kansas and my film-dreams-coming-true project. I just wanted to correct a few misconceptions. Someone mentioned that we were using a 416 and figured "we'd get what we are paying for" (in other words, not much). In point of fact, the audio we are getting is just stupendous on this shoot. Our sound mixer, Jithu, was an electrical engineer before switching to sound design and now has two degrees in sound design (including an MFA). He knows what he is doing, and with a great young boom operator (a wonderful young man by the name of Adam), we're getting ever…
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As I write this I'm on stage 22 at Universal outside of a small set meant to replicate a boathouse. If this thing is more than 30'x30' I'll be surprised. Our DP, a talented and sound friendly guy, likes smoke. I am not a fan of smoke on the set but I can usually find a spot away from it so that its inevitable effects on the respiratory system become other people's problems. But not today. Today, because the smoke pumped into a small set will inevitably dissipate between takes, and the resulting wait for the 'couple of puffs" and 'wafting" are unacceptable to time-conscious ADs and producers, then in their wisdom and concern for the crew, they have decided, and not for the…
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I had an interesting time the other day. We were shooting a live 24frame HD video in the background, projected onto a giant screen in a lecture hall setting. The lecturer was in the foreground and the screen was his whole background. There was dialogue from the lecturer which was reacted to and answered by the full face on the video. The film camera pulled focus back and forth from the lecturer to the video screen. Setting up the playback so that the video audio came into the hall and the audio from the hall was sent to the actor on the live feed was quite the conundrum, but kudos to Cooper whose mixer's routing versatility saved the day. The problem that arose was this.…
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I remember a thread on what the Deva Sound Report looks like. I could not find the original thread and I also remember it became a debate over the 'quality' of the report written to disk between the Cantar and Deva? I've attached the file that is written to the folder of the Deva for observation purposes. It is a .CSV file which will open in Excel. You could create a specific Excel template file that you open it in, which could also include the show name, etc. etc. The information in the 'native' file has the necessary information that the sound editors would find useful. I 'write' the report on each DVD-RAM I mirror, as well as on my external archive FW drive that…
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Ahh. The end of summer. I'm still wearing my uniform of long sleeve white T shirt, shorts, and flip flops and for 8 of the last 12 shoot days we have been making snow and doing winter or Xmas spots. The actors are bundled up in sweaters and parkas in the 90 degree heat. Some 4 or 5 months from now I will be bundled up in winter wear as we shoot babes on the beach on cold winter days. Gotta love the 'Biz'. No real point to this thread. Just shooting another one in Altadena on a beautiful Saturday. CrewC
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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. I don't think they even watch…
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