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An AvidPro Tools HDX system was used to produce composer Ryan Amon’s score for the recently- released Sony Pictures film Elysium. “The system lets me quickly and efficiently share, edit and mix audio, while streamlining workflows,” said John Rodd, the film’s score recording and mixing engineer. “I can use a single rig to do incredibly elaborate score mixes, and simultaneously print many stem mixes in a single pass.”
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Breaking Badproduction sound mixer Darryl L. Frank relied on Sound Devices788T and 744T recorders and a 442 field mixer to capture audio for the Emmy-winning show. “Having the ability to go quickly from a cart-based system to a bag rig is very important, and with Sound Devices you can do that very easily,” said Frank. For mics, Frank uses an all Lectrosonicsrig, including SMa and SM Super-miniature beltpack transmitters, LMa beltpack transmitters and UCR411a compact receivers. “The New Mexico desert is a pretty inhospitable environment for cables, so the Lectrosonics equipment does it all,” Frank added.
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UK music producer Tom Dalgety (Killing Joke, The Maccabees, Rodrigo y Gabriela) has invested in a pair of Unity AudioRock MkII monitors with single leg Monoliths. “I’d heard that a number of people who I trust and respect were moving over to them, so I thought I’d better give them a go,” he said. “They make you work hard – but the results are worth it!”
www.unityaudio.co.uk
IMG Productions’ new Stockley Park facility, IMG Studios, comprises 13 production galleries, four sound dubbing suites, 72 edit suites, five radio stations, five transmission suites and a master control room. Almost 50% of the equipment installed by broadcast system integrators TSL was newly purchased, including three Avid S5 Fusion consoles in addition to five Genelec 1238CFM speakers and a 7271A subwoofer per room, all supplied by HHB Communications.
www.hhb.co.uk
Avid S6 is a time machine
Media tools developer launches modular console to quicken studio workflow, says Dave Robinson
AVID HAS unveiled the S6 control surface, a “major new addition” to its family of control surfaces for sound recording, mixing and editing at the IBC show in Amsterdam. Built for “audio professionals in the most demanding production environments”, the S6 is designed to reduce time spent in the studio. “Drawing on more than
20 years of leading-edge innovation, the S6 delivers the game-changing modularity, superior ergonomics, and streamlined collaboration to meet mixers’ changing business requirements,” said Chris Gahagan, senior vice
GERMANY Modern classic from Schoeps By Erica Basnicki
GERMAN MIC manufacturer Schoeps introduced the V4 U at IBC2013 in Amsterdam, having teased Facebook fans with semi- obscured photos of the new microphone during the month of September.
bevelled collar, the mic capsule gains certain large-diaphragm- like behaviours without losing the technical advantages of its small diaphragm construction. The V4 U features an even
frequency response up to 20kHz, and an “optimally flat” diffuse field curve. The electronics are capable of a maximum of 144dB SPL, with a 4.8V maximum output voltage as well as “particularly good output impedance and symmetry values”, achieved via a newly- designed bridge output stage. The V4 U is the first new
Schoeps’ new V4 U has a classic look with modern circuitry
The look of the V4 U is based on the company’s CM 51/3 mic, released in 1951, but the capsule, circuitry and mechanical construction are the result of extensive new development. According to Schoeps, through the use of a special 33mm
product from Schoeps since it introduced the CMIT 5U shotgun microphone in 2006, followed by the SuperCMIT version (with built-in DSP) in 2010.
The V4 U is to be available
from December 2013. Its price will be €2,050 including a shockmount or stand clamp and a wooden case. n
www.schoeps.de
Ray Dolby (1933-2013) By Dave Robinson
Audio engineer, inventor and philanthropist Ray Dolby died on 12 September in San Francisco, aged 80. He had been suffering from leukaemia. Dolby began his career
working a summer job at tape- technology developer Ampex Corporation, and helped create Ampex’s first audio tape deck in 1949 and its quadruplex videodeck in 1956. He founded Dolby Labs in the UK in 1965 and his first invention, the Dolby Sound System, arrived later that year. Dolby moved the company headquarters to San Francisco in 1976, but was already enjoying success with his Noise Reduction technology which had quickly become the benchmark in recording studios. Dolby Stereo, Dolby ProLogic and Dolby Digital all followed, as did Dolby Surround 7.1 in 2010.
Dolby was made an OBE in 1986 and received an Oscar for his contributions to cinema in 1989. Dolby Laboratories mounted an IPO in 2005, and in the last couple of years, has set a new standard for immersive cinematic sound with the launch of Dolby Atmos. Acoustician Eddie Veale,
who worked with Dolby, made this tribute: “Ray Dolby, one of our most innovative and creative engineers, a true industry champion never flinching in adversity, true to his objectives and always raising standards. RIP.”n
www.dolby.com
president of products and services at Avid. Constructed around on the same technology that is core to the ICON and System 5 product families, the S6 can simultaneously control multiple Pro Tools and other EUCON-enabled DAWs over simple Ethernet. Avid S6 will be available
worldwide from October 2013. A second major
announcement detailed Avid’s new Customer Association, a “comprehensive initiative designed to provide essential strategic leadership to the media industry, collaborate with key industry leaders and visionaries,
Avid audio expert and demonstrator Gil Gowing with the S6 surface
and deepen relationships between the company and its customers”. As part of the bigger ‘Avid
Everywhere’ value chain campaign, the company will hold the Association’s first event in April 2014, just prior to NAB. “Building on our culture of
collaboration, we will work together even more tightly to navigate the evolving media
landscape and provide strategic direction for the entire industry,” said Louis Hernandez, Jr, president and CEO of Avid. PSNEurope is the only pro- audio publication that has been invited to meet with Hernandez in person to talk about the current state of the company. You can read the report on p58.n
www.avid.com
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