For music industry based audio companies, the film/television audio production world is a blip on their financial radar. For years specialty manufacturers, such as Zaxcom and Sound Devices have served us, and served us well. Cross-over companies, such as Fostex, Marantz, and Tascam seem to ebb and flow with product [...]

As we looked back over 2009 we found several things to be happy about. NAB2009 brought out a few new products of interest and the Sound Devices 552 debuted to a waiting crowd. We worked to bring some clarity to the complex and ever changing world of digital workflows with [...]

Naica, Mexico – December, 2009. Philippe Mercier, a Sound Mixer from Montreal, Canada, got a call to mix sound for a National Geographic documentary focused on the “Cueva de Los Cristales” (Cave of Crystals) in the Chihuahuan desert of Mexico. He expected to work in heat, however the extremely high [...]