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Thursday, April 15, 2010
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04/15/10 07:35 AM,
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As production mixer Paul Ledford, C.A.S. recently discovered, a digital audio solution such as Metric Halo’s ULN-8 interface can handle the increasingly more complex demands of a modern-day film shoot better than its analog counterparts. Ledford recently finished work on Jonathan Liebesman’s Battle: Los Angeles, a Sony Pictures movie about a group of U.S. Marines confronting and combating an alien invasion, which placed some unusual demands on the mixer’s location sound cart setup. The multi-camera shoot involved many busy action…
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Monday, March 01, 2010
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03/01/10 02:10 PM,
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For location recordists wanting for proof of reliability in their equipment, the SoundField SPS200 has emerged a worthy asset after being used to capture audio for a unique sound installation at a Zurich cultural museum. NONAM, Switzerland’s North American Native Museum, is constructing a permanent audio installation representing five of the main geographical regions of North American Native culture. The engineer responsible for capturing the sounds was Hein Schoer, a German researcher working at the Fontys School of Arts in…
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Friday, January 29, 2010
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01/29/10 06:00 PM,
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For those working in film sound production, there are always unique challenges such as rain, dust, and noise to contend with. Finnish winters, however, add a new twist to the never-ending saga of harsh working conditions: extreme cold. Image handling location sound responsibilities in a place where the temperature reaches -27 Celsius/-6 Fahrenheit. Such is the case for sound recordist Tuomas Klaavo, who along with associate Mikko Mäkelä, operates Helsingin Elokuvaäänitys Oy (Helsinki Movie Sound Ltd.). When it’s so cold…
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