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Just a Tad Of the Nomad

Quick peek at the Zaxcom Nomad Portable Recorder

By Christian Dolan | April 11, 2011

Zaxcom (actually, Coffey Sound) officially announces the Zaxcom Nomad Portable Recorder. Read More

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After Effects CS5.5

A series of videos demonstrating how to put the new features to work.

By Chris and Trish Meyer | April 11, 2011

Just one year after the release of After Effects CS5, the AE team has cooked up a very nice update with some significant new and updated features (plus a lot of nice small ones as well) that will be of interest to both motion graphics and visual effects artists. To share our take on these with you, we've worked with AdobeTV who is hosting a series of videos we created on how to take advantage of our favorites among the new features. These are embedded over the next few pages, along with some quick comments about the new features. These movies include: Read More

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SD Intros MixPre-D at NAB; Looks Totally Twee

The Sound Devices MixPre-D

By Christian Dolan | April 07, 2011

Snip from the press release: Read More

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Mount Up

Texas Sound Guy Reviews Mount For The Sanken COS-11

By Christian Dolan | April 05, 2011

Tyler Faison, AKA the Texas Sound Guy, has been playing around with a prototype lav mount from LMC. Read More

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iPad, you Pad, we all Pad for iPad

A couple stupid, useless, and irresistible iPad hacks. And maybe one or two stupid, useful and irresistible ones.

By George Sanger, The Fat Man | March 20, 2011

I do love my iPad, and it's a serious workhorse for me. But that's not what this article is about. It's about something far more important--the effect having an iPad has had on my mind. Read More

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Building the Perfect Workstation (Part 2)

Mission Possible

By Stephen Van Vuuren | March 15, 2011

Armed with the data from Part 1, it's time to shop, right? Or is it? Actually, one key decision before shopping is still required - the choice of form factor. Should you get a tower of power like the Dell T7500? A sexy M6500 mobile workstation loaded to the gills? Or really push the envelope and build something DIY with flames painted on the side? Read More

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Survey Time

We could use your assistance

By Scott Gentry | March 15, 2011

Surveys are a necessary part of website life. They help us tailor content and learn more about our readership. To make it worth your while, you can possibly walk away with one of the following:

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First Principles

AudioMedia Magazine interviews production mixers Simon Hayes and Chris Munro.

By Christian Dolan | March 10, 2011

Simon Hayes had a very interesting conversation with a post sound mixer that informs his work to this day: Read More

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Gotham Sounds’ SD CL-WiFi Hands-On

By Christian Dolan | March 04, 2011

Gotham Sound fires up the Sound Devices CL-WiFi controller in-house. They like it, with a couple of caveats. Read More

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What He Said

By Christian Dolan | March 03, 2011

As I was preoccupied with a top-secret paramilitary op to rescue adorably scruffy orphans with one hand whilst decimating enemy forces with nothing more than can of hairspray and a Soviet-era paperclip in the other (god, who hasn't had one of those days?), I fell behind a bit in my coverage, so some catch-up will be the order of the day. Read More

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WiFi Art Thou?

Sound Devices Announces the CL-WIFI/ iOS App For the
788T

By Christian Dolan | February 28, 2011

For those of you looking for something to do on your iphones and ipads (between rounds of Angry Birds), Sound Devices has developed the CL-WiFi and an attendant iOS app, which provide remote control and metadata editing for the 788T. Read More

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Is “Good Enough” Killing Our Industry?

With the advent of high quality acquisition tools for relatively little money, is there really a role for the highest quality production outside of niches?

By Terence Curren | February 24, 2011

I contend that the "it's good enough" mentality is killing quality, and especially in our industry. Philip sees it differently. What do you think? Episode 20 of the Terence & Philip Show. Read More

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This Just In From the “Yikes” Department….

An altercation over loud popcorn eating during a screening of Black Swan turns fatal in Latvia.

By Christian Dolan | February 21, 2011

You could make it up, but why? Snip: Read More

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Dream a Little Dream

New York Times interview with the Inception sound team.

By Christian Dolan | February 18, 2011

The Carpetbagger talks with Ed Novick, Richard King and Gary Rizzo about working with Christopher Nolan. Snip: Read More

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Zaxcom’s Mystery Box Gets a Name; No, It Isn’t “Little Z”

By Christian Dolan | February 15, 2011

Rumors have been swirling around the intertubes for some time about Zaxcom bowing a new portable recording unit at this year's NAB, and the name of the unit has just been made public via Coffeysound's Twitter feed. Behold: Read More

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Demented and Sad, But Social

Production mixer Mark Weingarten on the sound of The Social Network

By Christian Dolan | February 14, 2011

I've seen numerous interviews (here, here and here) about the incredible sound of The Social Network, but none featuring production sound mixer Mark Weingarten. Mark's been quite busy since wrapping the movie, and hasn't had time to participate in any of the Q & As or behind-the-scenes material, but was kind enough to take a few minutes out of his full schedule to answer some questions about his work on the project. Read More

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And It’s Outta Here!

Glenn Trew of Trew Audio got his hands on the new Lectrosonics Quadra IEM system, and well, he liked it. A lot.

By Christian Dolan | February 12, 2011

Lucky bugger that he is, Glenn got to take the system out for a spin, and came away quite impressed. UPDATE: Read More

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Martini 2.0

We need to rethink the "martini."

By Christian Dolan | February 11, 2011

It never fails: everyone's beat, the lead actor has finally gotten through that tongue-twisty sequence in the dialog without flubbing, and you're about to lose your light. The director calls "Cut!" with more enthusiasm than you've heard all week, and everyone springs to their feet, invigorated by the prospect of impeding libation. The AD announces on walkie that it's a wrap on today. Huzzahs all around! Read More

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Maybe Facebook Is Good For Something After All

SmartSound is giving away free music tracks!

By Bruce A Johnson | February 09, 2011

I'm not really a huge Facebook fan, but I can recognize a bargain when I see one. If you are on Facebook and you "like" Smartsound, they'll send you a free music track on February 15th. Hey, what can it hurt? It's not like they want you to play Farmville or something. Read More

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My Lav Mic Has a First Name; It’s O-S-C-A-R…

The Oscar Sound Tech OST-801 Lavalier

By Christian Dolan | February 08, 2011

Mics are like shoes in an episode of Sex and the City: we live and die by them and like to have as many on hand as possible for any occasion. Beyond a certain quality baseline, mic choice can be pretty personal to the style and preferences of the mixer. Read More

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