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The impossible dreams.
This isn’t going to be a tech savvy post, but I thought it would be nice to discuss my (and hopefully your) dreams for the next year. For the last several years our business has been dominated by new gear. Let’s face it, post houses are finally coming about and non-linear is here for the […]
READ MORE48.048 kHz?
So, when is it appropriate to record at 48.048 kHz, and how should you set your recorder when doing so? The answer lies in your project sound and picture workflow – not just on set, but all through film-to-video transfer and postproduction. If you understand the workflow, and how your audio files are being used, […]
READ MORETools of the Trade: ENG Mixers
(Originally published in Audio Media Magazine USA) In the field of professional audio, there are a select few who have found themselves, either by choice or by fate, in the specialized niche of location Television and/or Film production. A niche industry creates niche equipment needs, and in the recent past, limited options for equipment to […]
READ MORETools of the Trade: Portable Mixing Consoles
(Originally published in Audio Media Magazine USA) In this volume: Cooper CS-208 & CS-106; Sonosax SX-8; Zaxcom Cameo; Audio Developments AD-146, AD-147, & AD-149; PSC M8. For Film and Television production, these portable mixing consoles (or for our European colleagues, desks) pick up where even the best ENG (electronic news gathering) mixers leave off. Compact […]
READ MOREThings You May Not Learn In Film School (but should)
[Editor’s note, Feb 2014: Written over 20 years ago now, many of the points below are obsolete, though fun to read. But some things never change] Never run. In short, running on the set is poor professional form for a sound department. While the enthusiasm may be impressive to the unseasoned, running tells those with […]
READ MOREA Brief History of Timecode (For synchronous sound recording)
In the beginning, for the timecode audio recordist anyway, there was the Nagra IV-S adapted for timecode. Eventually Nagra would have a timecode version of their own, affectionately (but unofficially) called the Nagra IV-STC. But theirs was not the first. The first viable commercial entry into this field was made by Coherent. It consisted of […]
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