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2015
Sound for Film: For Your Consideration
It was a banner year for film sound in 2014, as one of the biggest technology jumps in decades made its way into the...
2014
The Exodus in Atmos
It’s a Ridley Scott epic, a biblical story with swords and battles and locusts and seas parting. And it’s an open palette for sound,...
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IMMERSIVE SOUND FOR CINEMA
The introduction in 2005 of the Digital Cinema Initiatives standard brought with it the largest wholesale change in motion picture presentation since the arrival...
2014
NEW FILM SOUND PRODUCTS
iZotope RX4 Audio Repair Toolkit Perfect for restoration of damaged production audio, iZotope’s RX4 is broken down into user-friendly modules. When dealing with buzz,...
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Exclusive Panel Videos from Mix’s Immersive Sound Event
More than 500 film sound professionals visited Sony Pictures Post-Production Studios on September 6 to take part in an inaugural Mix event, Immersive Sound:...
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William Holden Theatre: Sony Pictures Post Production, Culver City, Calif.
The emergence of Immersive Sound formats in the past few years represents an enormous leap in motion picture playback, one not seen since the...
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CRAS Rolls Out Broadcast Audio Curriculum
Over the past 10 years, with the decline in the number and staffs of commercial studios nationwide, recording schools have added to their curricula...
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Dennis Sands’ Sound Waves SB: A Private Dolby Atmos Mix Retreat
Four-time Oscar-nominated music mixer Dennis S. Sands has taken his extensive experience and expertise in orchestral recording and film score mixing and brought it...
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Jersey Boys: Stage Hit Makes Realistic Transition to Screen
Has the live singing in the hit film adaptation of Les Miserables changed the game for everyone else making an on-screen musical? Is the...
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Superhero Science and Technology: Marvel’s Avengers Come Alive in New Interactive Exhibit
There seems to be no limit to the number of spinoffs that can be generated from the world of Marvel Comics superheroes. The flood...
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Music for ‘True Detective’: T Bone Burnett Digs Deep for Eerie HBO Drama
It’s been awhile since the ending of a season of a limited TV series has been mourned as widely and intensely as HBO’s True...
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Sonic Ranch: A Recording Retreat Designed to Inspire
Vibe is one of those versatile descriptors that can mean nothing or everything. It can be used to describe a person, place or thing...
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The Great ‘Marketplace’ Studio Redesign of 2009-2014: American Public Media Updates Radio Facility for the “Connected” World
There are no Aeron chairs or hardwood floors at the newly revamped Frank Stanton Studios in downtown Los Angeles. These are radio studios, where...
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The Future of TV Workflow: Dante Networking for ‘The Arsenio Hall Show’
“From Stage 6, Sunset Bronson Studios, on the world-famous Sunset Boulevard, it’s The Arsenio Hall Show!” With that announcement, Hall, who in 1989 was...
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Sound for Picture – Ender’s Game: Earth vs. Alien Creatures in Future Space Wars
Ender’s Game, director/screenwriter Gavin Hood’s ambitious and arresting film version of the best-selling 1984 science fiction book of the same name, has deservedly received...
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‘Metallica Through the Never’: Sound Helps Tell the Story in 3-D Concert Film
Leave it to Metallica—modern metal monsters with unquestionable integrity and boundless creativity—to come up with a unique twist for their 3-D concert film, Metallica...
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Stoked! Sound of the X Games Is Nearly as Challenging as the Sports Themselves
When the first Extreme Games were staged by ESPN at the end of June 1995 at various sites in Rhode Island and Vermont, no...
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Megatrax Revamps, Opens Up L.A. Studios
Megatrax Production Music knows how to get great sounds, tracks that will pop out of the radio, the small screen or the big screen....
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Isham, Abbey & Jackie: The Old-School Score for ‘42’
When Jackie Robinson took the field as the first African-American baseball player in the major leagues in 1947, it was a momentous event in...
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The ‘Revolution’ Will Be Televised
Life is full of noise, most of it produced by all things electric. But what does a world without electricity sound like? Fans of...
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Classic Stooges
What made those original Stooges sound effects so funny? Where did they come from? Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt has been on the hunt...
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Sound Design for ‘The Three Stooges’
What makes a Stooge sound like a Stooge? Like when Curly gets conked on the head with a pipe or when Moe pokes Larry...
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The Pro Audio PIT at NAB
The NAB Show, to be held April 16-19 in Las Vegas, presents a dizzying array of product introductions, fueling the constant technological changes in...
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SSL Rolls Onto CRAS Campus
As part of its continuing tour of the U.S., the new Solid State Logic Broadcast Equipment Demonstration Vehicle recently paid a visit to the...
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Editor’s Note: Beginning to Understand 7.1
I freely admit that I didn’t understand the drive behind 7.1 when people started talking about it almost a decade ago. I understood the...
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Motion Picture Sound Editors Honor George Watters II
Supervising sound editor George Watters II took home the 2012 MPSE Career Achievement Award at the 59th Annual Golden Reel Awards, held February 19....
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TalkBack: How Did You Get Into Game Audio?
I started doing sound design as a child, recording my sister’s voice and then editing it with razors I stole from my father, cutting...
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Halo Anniversary Disneyland Adventures | Music Centerstage in Game Releases
PYRAMIND, SKYWALKER SOUND UP THE MUSICAL ANTE WITH HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED ANNIVERSARY, KINECT DISNEYLAND ADVENTURES
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Turner Turns to Lawo
Turner Studios, the broadcast production division of Turner Entertainment Group, has taken delivery of a second Lawo mc290 production console in its Audio Control...
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AES Tackles Digital Cinema
The Audio Engineering Society has formed a provisional committee to review audio reproduction for digital cinema and television. Spearheaded by Brian McCarty, managing director...