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August 2006
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VOLUME 1
ISSUE 9
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Gotham Sounds Off
Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, August 24th at 12 PM, MetaCorder and Boom Recorder will face off at Gotham. Two virtual recorders will enter. Neither will leave*. As an added bonus feature, Gallery is offering a special $300 discount on all copies of MetaCorder purchased in-store at Gotham that day as well as additional discounts on audio interfaces when purchased with MetaCorder. Come see the excitement!
*without purchase or rental of same
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A Fresh Slate
Our virtual recorderpalooza (see above) will also boost a sensational undercard - the debut of the prototype of a whole new way of slating, developed by Gotham in conjunction with Gallery Software.
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Save the Date!
Gotham Sound and Communications,
IATSE Local 52 and Post-Works New York
Cordially invite you to:
A Seminar on Telecine and the New Non-Linear Recorders:
What Sound Mixers and Producers Need to Know
When: Saturday October 28th 2006 10am - 2pm
Where: New York, exact location TBD - depends on the response!
Who: Representatives from PostWorks, Gotham Sound, manufacturers, and post-production departments
will demonstrate and discuss the most efficient on set and post-production
practices to ensure a smooth and efficient workflow, both during and after the
telecine session.
You must RSVP to
gotrsvp@gmail.com
to reserve your space. Please provide your name, company name and contact
information.
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Off Mic with Chris Newman
 With three Academy Award wins and a filmography extending back to Medium Cool, Chris Newman is one of the most venerable sound mixers working today. Gotham intern Macy Jones sat down with him on the set of his current project, Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
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Turn Off That Mic!
A Gotham Public Service Announcement
A cautionary tale about safe microphone use. Warning: contains strong language.
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Sennheiser HD201 Headphones Deal!
 Buy 5 for $79.95! Take advantage of this limited time offer and save over $60 on these powerful, cost-effective headphones.
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Great Moments in Sound History
 Charlie
Chaplin describes his first impression of sound engineers in the early days of
talkies:
Elaborate radio equipment was installed, involving thousands of electrical wires. Men geared like warriors from Mars sat with earphones while the actors
performed, with microphones hovering above them like fishing rods.
quoted in My Autobiography (1964)
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Gotham congratulates our Emmy nominated clients!
 Alistair
Crocker is in contention for Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A
Miniseries Or A Movie for his heroic traipsing of a
Sound Devices 744T and a
Cooper Sound CS208 mixer around Hungary and Morrocco for "The
Ten Commandments."
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And with various non-sound related nominations:
Congratulations to all the nominees! (Although we'd love to see some
NY-based productions up for sound awards next time around. Support our boys
and gals who labor for great sound in one of the loudest, most RF stuffed environments on the
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Gotham in Studio Daily
Gotham's Peter Schneider showed up in
Studio Daily article holding forth on some of the issues hampering a smooth
transition of media from the sound mixer to post production.“There’s an old adage that still holds true, ‘If a sound mixer gets more that
one call from the telecine house, that usually means they’ll get fired,'” notes
Peter Schneider, partner at Gotham Sound, an audio rental and sales house in New
York. "Unfortunately there's been a lot of problems with the telecine houses
trying to figure out solutions to deal with this new media and the sound mixers
have been taking the heat for it."
Read the whole article by David John Farinella:
File-Based Audio
Leading to Headaches in Telecine
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