With the recently released Clockit Timecode App iDevice software from Ambient, the MovieSlate app and editing software like PluralEyes, the production world is buzzing with questions. Is it safe to use? Should I get rid of my clapper slate? What are the features & benefits, advantages & disadvantages? Hopefully, this [...]

The Nagra VI, One Year Later… “Under-promise, over-deliver”. When this philosophy is behind a product, the customers who use it are well served. It is the sign of a confident and mature company, a hallmark of Nagra, and it is apparent in the continuing history of the Nagra VI. Possibly [...]

One way I keep my hands and ears in sound mixing for film and video production is to fill in for Trew Audio customers who, for one reason or another, need someone to fill in for them. So, when Kevin Smith’s usual sound mixer, Atlanta-based Whit Norris, found himself booked [...]

Since the Sound Devices CL-9 hit the blogosphere, views and how-to’s have filled the web.  Instead of rehashing what the CL-9 is designed to do, I’ve decided to take a practical approach to using the communications section of the new control surface. If the boom operators wish to listen to [...]

The human hand can be a reasonably good suspension device. In most film and video production situations hand-held mics are not effective, one arm is too short. We need to mount the mic on a rigid pole. The rigidity of the boom pole is where the problems begin. Boom poles transmit vibrations rather well, some better than others. Many clever people have spent decades trying to build a device, a shock mount, to put on the end of the boom that will do what our hands can do so easily. Read full entry »