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PRO SOUND NEWS MOVES TO MIX
Pro Sound News and Mix are merging—here's how to keep getting the best pro-audio news in the business!
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Yessian Celebrates 50 years of Music and Sound Design
Founded by award-winning composer Dan Yessian in a 300-square-foot bait shop in metro Detroit in 1971, Yessian, now a global enterprise, is celebrating 50 years in business.
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HEAR Rethinks Remote Recording
The pandemic led John Harris and Jody Elff, two live music event mixers with a stack of awards between them, to finally start their own remote production company.
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Fox Podcast Talks Tech in 60 Seconds
One of the shortest daily podcasts out there, FOX on Tech squeezes the tech news of the day into pithy one-minute audio shorts.
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Producing the ‘WTF with Marc Maron’ Podcast
'WTF with Marc Maron' has become one of the best-known podcasts in the world, so when the pandemic hit, the show had to go on.
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Teasley Brings Neve 8424 to United Recording
Composer, programmer, sound designer, music producer and musical director Kevin Teasley has installed a Neve 8424 mixing console at his studio at United Recording Studios in Hollywood, CA.
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Reflecting on The Mandalorian’s Reflections
Disney's The Mandalorian shoots within a circle of 20-foot-high video screens that surround actors in realistic panoramic environments—but also considerable vocal reflections.
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Mix Sessions: Emmy Awards Season Ready to Roll
Meet the women and men who tackled sound and music for Wandavision, Small Axe, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, The Underground Railroad and Sylvie's Love
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MIX SESSIONS SNEAK PEEK: Sound of ‘Small Axe’
Go behind the scenes with the creative sound team behind Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, featuring Ed Bailie of Leland Music and sound editor/re-recording mixer James Harrison.
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SNEAK PEEK: Sound of ‘WandaVision’
Take a peek at the ‘Sound for WandaVision’ panel at Mix Sessions Emmy Awards Season, featuring the Skywalker Sound team!
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Hallmark Home & Family Upgrades Wireless Rig
The Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family, now in its ninth season, recently upgraded to a Lectrosonics all-digital D Squared wireless mic system.
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Innovations: Deluxe One Dub Remote Audio Cloud Recording
Deluxe's Greg Taieb explains why new enhancements mean that now remote recording solutions have extended their utility beyond the pandemic.
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Rolling Live Celebrates Bowie with a Landmark Livestream
Kerry Brown went from opening a record store/studio at the start of 2020 to producing an all-star 24-hour livestream honoring David Bowie at the end.
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Streamland Media Completes Technicolor Post Acquisition
Streamland Media has completed the acquisition of Technicolor Post and has integrated its Picture Shop, The Farm, Ghost VFX, Formosa Group and Picture Head services
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Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast Spotlights Shure SM7
Twenty Thousand Hertz, the Webby Award-winning podcast, partnered with Shure for its latest episode to focus on the SM7 microphone.
Gear and Technology
Lawo Unveils Home IP Management Platform
Lawo has unveiled Home, the company’s new management platform for IP-based media infrastructures.
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Oscar for Sound Goes to Sound of Metal
Sound of Metal, the story of a drummer who starts to lose his hearing, won the Oscar in the Motion Picture Academy’s newly combined sound category
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Capturing a Grammy Awards Like No Other
The 63rd Grammy Awards telecast was very different due to the pandemic. For the veteran audio team behind the annual television event, that meant throwing away the old playbook and starting virtually from scratch.
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MPSE Announces Golden Reel Award Winners
The Motion Picture Sound Editors presented its 68th Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards during a fully virtual ceremony on Apr. 16.
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Cinema Audio Society Announces 2020 Awards
The Cinema Audio Society presented its awards for outstanding achievement in sound mixing for 2020 on Apr. 17.
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Innovations: Solid State Logic System T Platform
As established at-home workflows evolved into work-from-home activities, Solid State Logic fast tracked development of the System T platform to enable it to fit into the new production paradigm.
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2021 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards Announced
The Guild of Music Supervisors hosted its 11th annual award ceremony virtually this year, honoring outstanding achievement in the craft of music supervision in film, television, documentaries, games, advertising, and trailers.
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Live Nation, Veeps Outfit 60-Plus Venues for Livestreaming
Live Nation Entertainment and Veeps, the livestream platform run by co-founders Joel and Benji Madden of the band Good Charlotte, have started equipping over 60 concert venues across the U.S. to offer turnkey livestreaming.
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ATSC 3.0 To Impact Hollywood
ATSC 3.0, the new digital television transmission standard can deliver high-quality audio, including immersive formats, impacting many viewing platforms.
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Oscar Nominee Baksht Captures ‘Sound of Metal’
Re-recording mixer Jaime Baksht is Oscar-nominated this year for Best Sound for his work on 'Sound of Metal.'
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The Audio of ‘Chicago 7’ Was A Trial Itself
The audio team behind writer/director Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 faced numerous challenges, including 15 remote mics in some scenes.
International
Maurizio Argentieri on Metric Halo and ‘The Life Ahead’
Veteran sound designer and mixer Maurizio Argentieri relied on his trusty Metric Halo ULN-8 and 2882 interfaces when he worked on Sophia Loren’s new film
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ÉléphantMat Livestreams Immersive Performance
French electronic music producer ÉléphantMat, the alter-ego of artist, producer and engineer Mathieu Rossier, recently recorded and streamed a live two-hour spatialized performance piece from the Grand Palais in Paris
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Livestream Production: From Emerging Format to Industry Cornerstone
In just a year, livestreaming has exploded, with dozens of startups now providing innovative production services to answer growing demand.
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The Cinematic Sound of the ‘Sammy the Bull’ Podcast
How Angelo Palazzo’s sound design and original score won the blessing of one of the mob’s most notorious hitmen.
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Dome Productions Rolls Out Gateway OB Truck
Canada-based Dome Productions has unveiled Gateway, a new all-IP SMPTE 2110 OB truck outfitted with a Calrec Apollo digital audio console.
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Rivera Talks Collaboration for Composing ‘Queen’s Gambit’
Composer Carlos Rafael Rivera discussed his work on writer/director Scott Frank’s Netflix miniseries "The Queen’s Gambit" at an event for the Production Music Association's PMA Academy.
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True Crime Sound Design on ‘Anatomy of Murder’
The audio team behind 'Anatomy of Murder' shows why there's room for more than tense and ominous sounds when it comes to true crime sound design.
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Academy Awards Sound Nominees Announced
The Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for this year’s Oscars, and for the first time sound editing and sound mixing are combined into a single category.
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How ‘Real Narcos’ Makes Rough Audio Work
The ‘Real Narcos’ team uses sound design tricks, careful editing and dramatic music to work around the limitations of rough—but crucial—audio.
International
Mixing X Factor Colombia
An Allen & Heath dLive mixing system handled live mixing duties for the X Factor Colombia 2020 TV series.
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After 500 Episodes, ‘Grumpy Old Geeks’ Has a Slick Audio Workflow
As its gear and best practices have evolved, the long-running 'Grumpy Old Geeks' podcast has gotten production down to a science.
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Cinema Audio Society Announces Award Nominations
The Cinema Audio Society has announced its nominees for the 56th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2020.
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Top Cinema Sound Teams Talk Up Audio Efforts
Sound teams from some of the biggest movies of the year, from 'Mank' to 'Judas and the Black Messiah,' were onhand to discuss their work at the Mix Sound for Film & TV Awards Season event.
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MPSE Announces Golden Reel Award Nominees
The Motion Picture Sound Editors has named nominees for its 68th Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards, taking place Sunday, April 16, 2021.
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Sound Mixer Globetrots with Lectrosonics
Chasing reality TV productions around the world, sound mixer Stu Chacon brings along a lot of wideband wireless equipment for every occasion.
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Recording NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk Concert’ Podcast at ‘Home’
Audio engineer Josh Rogosin keeps NPR's "Tiny Desk Concert" podcast series alive during the COVID-19 pandemic.