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Peter Deutscher

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  1. John, my brother had the exact problem you had and the sciatic nerve was so inflammed and damaged they had to do emergent surgery (posted this already so sorry for reposting). He had a microdiscetomy of the L5/S1 and has never looked back. Just food for thought...
  2. Don't have any first hand experience, but I did see this on Gotham Sound the other day: http://gothamsound.com/main.shtml?page=catalog&scmd=DISP&itemid=STASRCF82
  3. Right on dude...Sounds great and you can groove pretty hard. I'm impressed and glad to see the level of musicianship on this board
  4. You could always use Sound Cloud: http://soundcloud.com/
  5. I think he's doing the new Hemingway movie which starts filming, I think, at the end of the month. Is he doing both? I know he does get a lot of the big gigs in SF when they come to film here.
  6. They started filming today in the city...anyone know who's mixing?
  7. My brother had a slipped disc too. At the chiropractor's office, the machine they put you in displaced his disc even more. An MRI showed it was pinching off his sciatic nerve and had to have emergency surgery to fix it (could have lost permanent feeling in his left leg.) He's much, much better now, but will always have a comprismised back. Like the Senator said, DON'T COME BACK TOO SOON! It can really be danergous and affect you the rest of your life. Take care of yourself Rado and speedy recovery to you.
  8. Dug this thread up as I was going to post a new one asking anyone here on the board played any instruments. Been playing drums for over 10 years now and still going strong! I was in a couple of bands but the one I really focused on for a while and took sometime off from sound gigs for was Cloakwheel. We had distribution and a record deal in Europe and all things were looking good. Then the main songwriter decided he didn't want to play music anymore. From there, I bounced around a few projects but then decided to get back into sound. Now I'm back playing drums for fun in a Megadeth cover band called 5magics. Below is the link to my old band Cloakwheel and a Youtube clip to 5magics playing our first show back in November (we were a bit rough that night and our buddy filled in on vocals.) http://www.myspace.com/cloakwheel
  9. Did you have one of the older models or newer ones? I purchased mine back in June 2010.
  10. I suggest getting it. I use it and only roll off on my mixer if needed (the low cut capsule works really well.) Ken over at Oktava USA is great and really helps out a lot. Email him or give him a call. Oktava USA 345 N. Dubuque St. North Liberty, IA 52317 (319) 331-6030 sales@oktavausa.com
  11. The Rycote InVision mounts work real well the Oktava's...that and good boom handling skills
  12. Looking at some past posts, it looks like people do have some issues with their poles and having Don on to ask directly could only benefit and educate all of us.
  13. Just wanted to update everyone on the situation...my wife and I have declined the offer to purchase the post house that was offered to us. We're both planning on moving to NYC in 2012 and didn't want anything hampering that decision. I want to thank everyone who chimed in as you all raised excellent points that I'll be able to take with me as we continue on with our production company.
  14. I with you Josh. My wife is from Anoka in MN so it's tough to cheer for the Packers. I'm from the Bay Area and have followed Aaron Rodgers through college at Cal (he's from a city in northern california called Chico) so I'm tempted to route for the Pack just because of the hometown boy. I'm not a Steelers fan so I guess that leaves me with the Pack. It's a tough pill to swallow...
  15. Didn't know if this should be under "Cool Boom Op" thread or not, but here's a short I did back in July called Pool Pirates. Funny script, but the DP thought very higly of himself and didn't give two s#$%'s about the sound department.
  16. Thanks John. This is a good formula to follow future gigs and will definitely help in determining if a gig is worth the money or losing whatever hair I have left. Rado, I'll come boom for ya...don't have to twist my arm to get to Vegas
  17. This speaks way to close to the truth for me. I'm on a shoot right now that sounds like the scenario Robert just painted. I'm a one-man-band providing them mainly ISO tracks. Although I'm getting paid, there was no boom op to be had. And they asked me if I knew anyone who would do post for free. Really scary considering I'm putting my name behind it. I'm fairly new to the production sound side and don't want to turn away money but I don't want to continue putting my name behind sub-par movies. Where does one draw the line?
  18. Thanks Tom for all the insight. I'm not taking this decision very lightly nor am I going to sign the dotted line tomorrow. Although there is clientele in place, they could bolt with new owners. However, the current owner now is stepping down as owner because of health issues. He'll still stay as an engineer so those clients would be able to return and still work for...we'll call him Bob. And inn the 5 years I've been there, I only worked part time at the studio so my personal clientele list isn't as extensive. And lately, I've been doing more production work. And there needs to be some work, time, and money put into re-organizing the studio and upgrading. You're probably right that leaving in a year and a half is probably too soon. If I do do this, it's going to take longer than I'm thinking now. But I do appreciate your brutal honesty as you've endured the trial by fire and walked out the other end a better person. This is a tough business and not meant for a lot of people. Hopefully I'll come out the other end, whichever end it may be, a better man.
  19. Thank you everyone for chiming in. I appreciate all the insight from people who've been in the business to see the change in this industry. Marc, I completely agree with you and am not expecting to "make it." This post house used to be a music recording studio and has been in place for over 18 years. From what I know, they have enough clients to keep the doors open and lights on. But the owner's never done any advertising or try to market the studio whatsoever (other than put it in the reel directory.) I think there's room for improvement and some of the engineers currently working there don't bring in a lot of their own clients. I know some young engineers who aren't afraid to go fish and find new clients. I'm taking all this in stride and hoping I can build on something that already proven to be profitable. But please, keep the comments coming as all of this is really helping. Cheers guys (and gals.)
  20. Thanks for the advice David. He's going to pull all the books out when we're starting to get serious so I'll have a chance to see how many months they were in the black and red. There are parts of the studio that need to be redesigned a bit and some gear needs to be updated so there's definitely some serious money needed to do this right.
  21. So the man who gave me my start in audio and the studio owner I still work for offered to sell the business to me and my wife (my wife is an editor there that I met at the studio.) I feel honored to have been asked and am seriously considering taking his offer (still crunching all the numbers and figuring out the worth of his business.) We do have regular clients who definitly pay for the day to day operations and bring in a couple of indie films every year. But I wanted to ask for opinions and advice from some fellow production and post-production engineers on this board. This man is close to being a second dad to me so I understand he wants to keep the business in "the family." Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks in advance.
  22. Thanks John. I'm flying in that day and leaving that night (have a shoot on Sunday.) Maybe we can meet up at the seminar and have a meet and greet for a few minutes (sans beer.)
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