The smooth operation of a post facility depends upon the skills of a well-staffed engineering department to ensure that editors and mixers can work efficiently to create a film/TV soundtrack. …
Recordists
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Giving credit to John Stephens for the development of a portable, 59-pound, battery-operated 8-track machine.
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Mixes Well with Others: Recordists and Re-Recording Mixers Collaborate
by Mel Lambertby Mel LambertThese days, it takes a team of talented post-production professionals to prepare soundtracks for motion pictures and network/cable TV programs.
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It’s not surprising that director Christopher Nolan drove the sound to a greater extent than ever before on his first space adventure, Interstellar, opening November 7 through Paramount Pictures. That’s …
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Re-recording mixer Andy Nelson, CAS, brings to his craft several decades of experience in the art of balancing dialogue, music and sound effects in an immersive soundtrack that supports the …
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During the past 35 years, Randy Thom, CAS, MPSE, has helped define the creative art of sound for feature films, and has been an inspiration to colleagues and assistants alike. …
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Wylie Stateman, Andy Koyama and Beau Borders Lay the Soundtrack to ‘Lone Survivor’
by Mel Lambertby Mel Lambert“There were several gun battles and a serious rocky fall that contained no traditionally scored music. The absence of music allowed our sound effects and Foley to take the soundtrack’s …
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I was preparing for a career in Foley. Whether I was imitating a birdcall that I heard during recess or pantomiming the rhythm of Miss Brady’s heels clip-clopping down the …
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The producers see the character of Dexter as having different, sonically distinct modes of operation; that drives their creative decisions.
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A compilations of praise and memorable stories for award winning re-recording mixer Donald O. Mitchell.