Thursday, November 10, 2011
Paul LaPlaca
11/10/11 08:22 AM,
“Check one, two… one, two…” As a soundperson, I’ve had to repeat this phrase ad nauseam - at times I even hear it in my dreams. Everyone wants to know: “Why can’t you count to three?” To which the punch line follows: “Because on three, you have to lift.” Ugh, like I haven’t heard that a thousand times before. (In addition to “when will this be over” and “is that really necessary?”) Years of enduring these tired refrains finally prompted…
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Paul LaPlaca 06/08/12 07:44 AM,Very early in my career, I worked in the field as a sound recordist for WNED, a television station in Buffalo, New York. My first day on the job, we finished doing a video shoot, and being the low person on the depth chart, it fell to me to pack up and put things away. Never to be forgotten were the gasps of true horror as I proudly grabbed an XLR cable by its end with one hand and began… View this story
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