Business
SSL Broadcast Tech Wins Queen’s Award
Solid State Logic lands an honor in its homeland, taking home a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
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How Pros Are Livestreaming During the Pandemic
Take a deep dive into the technology and techniques that artists are using while livestreaming during the pandemic.
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Post Audio Looks Home, Away Despite Pandemic
Whether its actors building voice-over booths at home or Foley specialists figuring out how to keep going until non-essential businesses can reopen, the post audio community is doing its best to navigate the pandemic.
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Audio Post Perseveres Despite Pandemic
Despite the pandemic, some audio post providers like Goldcrest Post and Hobo Audio are soldiering on and envisioning what the industry will be like when it reopens.
News
How Podcasters Fight Windy Extremes to Get Audio
Podcasts about the great outdoors are often recorded there, so we asked the Outside Podcast and Outside/In to share their recording insights
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Tenderfoot.TV Turns to Focusrite
Atlanta podcast and storytelling startup Tenderfoot.TV has made the Focusrite 2i2 interface a consistent component in its production kit
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All-Podcast Station Launched in London
Broadcasting on DAB+ digital radio, the UK’s first radio station devoted exclusively to podcasts has launched in London.
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Vortechs Delivers Remote Post Solutions to Hollywood
Post production services company Vortechs has been using remote collaboration and communication tech to help clients stay on track with motion picture and television projects.
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WHDH Adopts New SSL System T Platform
The new Solid State Logic system at WHDH replaces the previous SSL C100 installed there 14 years ago.
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Westworld Improvises ADR Process During Lockdown
Actress Thandie Newton follows shelter-in-place rules as she improvises in a makeshift vocal booth at home to provide ADR for HBO’s Westworld series.
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Lawo Disrupts Covid-19’s Disruption
Lawo developed a new method to conduct a remote factory acceptance test (FAT) of new radio systems at NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Ambidio Takes Post Pros Through the Looking Glass
A shift to make Ambidio’s Looking Glass immersive sound monitoring software free is aimed at work-from-home post audio pros.
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NEP Updates OB Truck Monitors
With two new trucks sporting TSL MPA1 units, NEP’s U.S. Broadcast Services team plans for more trucks across its fleet to include them.
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CNN’s Daily Coronavirus Podcast Beats Production Challenges
Working from separate home studios, CNN Audio and Dr. Sanjay Gupta create bite-sized content every weekday for the Coronavirus: Fact or Fiction podcast.
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Stage Tec Upgrades Swiss Parliament
Stage Tec has upgraded the parliament building in Bern, Switzerland, supplying consoles, a router and network as part of a modernization project.
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Megatrax Offers License-Free Coronavirus Song
Music library Megatrax has made a topical track from songwriter Gary Burr free for broadcasters.
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Nice Day for a Wireless Wedding
Recording actors for the big screen wirelessly is all in a day’s work for production sound mixer Chris Howland.
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New NBCU Complex Anchored by SSL Desks
The newly opened $125 million NBCUniversal Boston Media Center sports six studios and five SSL System T consoles.
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Producing Rolling Stone’s Podcast During COVID-19
By Jim Beaugez. Currently sheltered in their homes, Rolling Stone’s podcast team improvises to keep the content coming.
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NAB Show 2020 Replaced by New Offerings
The 2020 NAB Show will be replaced by NAB Show Express, a “digital experience,” and an enhanced annual NAB Show New York in October 2020.
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Broadcasters Prep for Live Immersive Content
The ability to provide immersive audio is quickly moving from being an option in many fields to a necessity. Whether being applied to broadcast content, cinema, or live and concert sound, the various formats—as well as the facilities and...
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Podcasting? Yeah, Staples’ Got That
While some big-box retailers might jump on the podcasting boom by selling gear, Staples has a far bigger plan—it’s opened podcast studios in six test stores, with technical designs and acoustics created by Professional Audio Design’s president Dave Malekpour...
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Larry Edgeworth, NBC News Audio Tech, Dies of COVID-19
Larry Edgeworth, a 25-year veteran of NBC News who worked out of the network’s Rockefeller Plaza headquarters in Manhattan, died on Thursday, March 19, from complications brought about by the coronavirus.
Music Production
Genelec Influences Influencer-Oriented Studio
PNDA Studios caters to internet influencers with a sound—and look—that matches their aesthetic.
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Thirion Shares Tips for Costume Miking
A nearly 20-year veteran of production sound, David Thirion shares thoughts on costume miking with DPA mics
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Oscar-Nominated Sound Teams Speak
The Academy Award-nominated sound teams behind Ad Astra, Joker, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood and Ford v Ferrari share how they brought aural magic to the multiplex.
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Russian TV Network Installs 30 Calrec Consoles
All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) is completing the installation of 30 Calrec Brio36 audio consoles into its studios.
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Kief Keeps in Touch with Bolero
Craig Kief, a Los Angeles-based director of photography, is using Riedel's Bolero Standalone wireless intercom.
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Røde to Aid Schools Affected by Coronavirus
The Australian pro-audio manufacturer will provide podcast kits to help schools reach quarantined students via recorded classes.
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Tom Kobayashi, Skywalker Sound / ISDN Pioneer, Dead at 91
Tom Kobayashi built and ran George Lucas’ Skywalker Sound before pioneering the use of ISDN and fiber optic networks for audio work.
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Focusrite Podcast Studio Makeover Competition Kicks Off
Have a favorite podcast that sounds awful? Has Focusrite got a contest for them—a full podcast studio makeover.
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Universal Announces All-Women Project
100% Her is a new production music album with all tracks composed, mixed and mastered by women.
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M3 Makes Waves in Miami at Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest
Music Mix Mobile recently used the new Waves SuperRack SoundGrid while mixing DJ Khaled, Maroon 5, DaBaby, Guns N’ Roses, Snoop Dogg, and Dan + Shay for broadcast.
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CAS Announces New Board of Directors
Cinema Audio Society president Karol Urban recently announced the results of the CAS board of directors election.
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Resonate Recordings Powered by Podcast Services
Resonate Recordings has carved a niche for itself in the podcast industry since launching in 2014 by providing post-production services to all comers, from Fortune 100 companies to anyone with a microphone and a story to tell.
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Fox Studio Lot Nabs Bluehorn First
The Newman Scoring Stage at the Fox Studio Lot in Los Angeles marks the first permanent installation of Meyer Sound’s Bluehorn System in a major commercial studio.
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Signature Post Launches in Revamped Facility
Greg Stone launched Signature Post in a renovated space in Burbank with the aim of creating a post house that can provide the right talent, equipment and amenities for any production in Los Angeles.
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Schawa TV Serves Up Badminton World Cup
Schawa TV used Sonifex commentator units when covering the 2019 Badminton World Cup in St. Jakobshalle, Switzerland for Japanese station TV Asahi.
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Inside the Audio Post-Production of ‘Parasite’
Audio post-production services for 'Parasite,' the first foreign language film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, were provided by South Korean film facility Live Tone Studios.
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RTS Intercoms Bring Trucks Together at Big Game
When it came to ensuring all of Game Creek Video’s OB trucks were in constant communications for the Super Bowl recently, RTS intercoms were put to use.
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NAB Confirms 2020 NAB Show Is Still On
Despite concerns about coronavirus, the annual convocation in Las Vegas is still set for April.
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Voxnest Teams with Staples for Podcast Studios
The podcasting studios in Staples' new Staples Connect stores will offer Voxnest’s Spreaker hosting and distribution platform.