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Everybody Hollerin’ Goat
In the summer of 1998, I received a phone call from Dolly Carlisle, a documentary Producer/Director that I had worked with many times before. She was producing a documentary in Como, Mississippi, on Othar Turner, a 90 year old man that plays the fife in a drum and fife band, and she wanted to know […]
READ MORESound Devices MP-1 Portable Mic Preamp
(Originally published in Audio Media Magazine USA& UK) Since the quest for tools that improve the quality of our work often leave us bleeding on the cutting edge, it’s nice to occasionally find a new one that’s actually a better choice. Such is the case with the MP-1 portable microphone preamp by Sound Devices. In […]
READ MOREThe Indie Corner
Lately, I have had the good fortune to be a part of a few independent productions. They have mainly been student projects. Due to my impeccable good will for mankind (and the nausea bad sound creates within me) I feel it is important to try to convey some granule of knowledge about sound to these […]
READ MOREThe StellaDAT II 4-track Portable DAT Recorder
(Originally published in Audio Media Magazine USA) Two oxymorons: Jumbo Shrimp. Perfect DAT. Well, oxymorons or not, I love jumbo shrimp and the Stelladat II is the closest thing to a perfect DAT recorder that we may ever see. The Stelladat II is the new evolution of the original Stelladat (now known as the Stelladat-I), […]
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 MORERegional Sound Mixer Profiles: Volume Two!
Alan Sawyer (Virginia) Phil Arnold (Tennessee) Greg Linton (Georgia) Kevin Van Bakel (Kentucky) Alan Sawyer Alan Sawyer has 22 years experience as a sound mixer, and works mostly in the Richmond/Norfolk production market. He says he likes “working around so many talented and gifted people on both sides of the camera”. Recently Alan did a […]
READ MORERegional Sound Mixer Profiles: Volume One!
Peter Devlin (Florida) Mike Puckett (Mid-Atlantic) Jonathan Andrews (North Ohio) Gail Carroll-Coe (Michigan) Thomas Morrison (Tennessee) Jennifer Murphy (North Carolina) Mack Melson (Texas) Peter Devlin Based primarily in Florida, Peter Devlin has been a sound mixer for seventeen years. He and his boomman, Kevin Cerchiai, work primarily on the many feature films and TV movies […]
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 […]
READ MOREThe Sanken CSS-5 and the Rycote Four-Point Suspension
The Sanken CSS-5 Shotgun Stereo Mic can be successfully mounted in the new style Rycote “M-2” modular four point suspension as well as in the less recent non-modular Rycote four point suspension. There are several keys to the proper setup of the suspension for this microphone. First, a 25mm clip should be used on the […]
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