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90 days. No other industry can/would tolerate this. > "It’s standard practice for a business not to accept Net 90 > payment terms > . > I don’t just get to decide I�...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2019/09/net-90-net-90.html

So, did anything... interesting happen for you in 2016? (delicate avoidance of politics - CHECK). I had the fortune to work on two union features this year, a first for me. The first, I Don't ...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2017/01/2017-new-quadrennial-newspamphletter.html

We call it "The Industry". When we omit the modifying noun, it is assumed that we are speaking of the entertainment industry. While on occasion we make art that is entertaining, most of the time ...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2015/10/e-sign-o-times.html

As mixers, we relentlessly fill our heads with the arcane and absurdly technical, from frequency responses of various microphones to the intermodulation products of RF signals. We do so to b...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2015/04/pitfalls-how-to-avoid.html

The TIG Q28 BNC The usual iteration process with tech is more features in a smaller form factor. While the new TIG is certainly smaller and lighter, it offers the same features as the ori...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2014/12/the-itty-bitty-tc-committee.html

The Lectrosonics L Series Wireless In March 2014, Lectrosonics announced the L Series Wireless systems, essentially a revamp of the L series for affordable wireless systems for use in fee...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2014/12/l-yeah.html

Greetings, campers. It’s been a bit since the last Official Syncsound Audio Newspamphletter, so buckle up. (Not because it’s super exciting or anything, just a friendly reminder to always us...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2014/05/the-new-newspamphletter.html

I MUST ADMIT, THE FIRST TIME I READ THE NAME “MOZEGEAR ”, MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS A LINE OF SWAG FEATURING COUSIN MOSE SCHRUTE : Come on, who wouldn’t buy that shirt for $49.95? Upo...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2014/03/the-mozegear-tig.html

OFTEN WHEN WE’RE IN THE TRENCHES DURING THE HEAT OF BATTLE, WE EMPLOY ANY NUMBER OF  ANALOGIES TO COMMUNICATE WITH PRODUCTION (LIKE, SAY, STALE MILITARY METAPHORS). “Take 6: NG due to mo...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2014/02/go-boom-or-gopro.html

WELP, THE RUMOR MILL CAME THROUGH, AND THE BIG Z DID INDEED ANNOUNCE NEW PRODUCTS YESTERDAY, ALONG WITH SOME NEW FIRMWARE GOODNESS. The new TRXLA2 transmitter: The new QRX200 receive...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2014/01/zax-attack.html

The Ktek Nautilus Follow Up After the my initial review of the Ktek Nautilus suspension, several readers noted that they did not have the same experience with their Nautili, and Dave Fisk grac...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2014/01/shake-rattle-and-roll-redux.html

SONICPOOL POST HAS, FOR SOME REASON, DEVELOPED AND RELEASED A FREE IOS APP CALLED GUERRILLA ADR, WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE PRESS RELEASE , “GIVES TALENT THE ABILITY TO DOWNLOAD THE...APP, PUT O...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2014/01/the-d-stands-for-depressing.html

While many different sampling rates have existed over the years, the most common we encounter are 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz. Both are more than capable of fully capturing the entirety of a microphone...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/12/sampler-platter.html

The production world is fraught with myriad tales of gear etymology. If you were to ask someone what BNC stands for prior to Wikipedia, you'd get at least two seemingly plausible answers.  So i...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/12/xylophone-lumbar-raspberry.html

Sound Devices pulled away the satin cover today to reveal the 633 mixer/recorder . Like a Herve Villechaize to the 664’s Ricardo Montalban, it looks like a truncated, but nearly identical, ve...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/11/sound-devices-intros-wee-633.html

Sound Devices will be launching a new product this morning, and will be live streaming the release from Trew Audio in L.A. beginning at 9:30 am PST : Watch live streaming video from trewaudio ...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/11/dont-cross-streams.html

The K-Tek Nautilus Since the advent of microphone use, suspensions, or “shock mounts” have been necessary. A good shock mount must provide a solid grip, excellent isolation, and a certain ...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/11/shake-rattle-and-roll-k-tek-nautilus.html

Mixer Chris Durfy has put together a detailed how-to on planting a lav mic inside the body of a pen: "On my last show, I was having some problems with body mics and scratchy police officer war...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/11/mightier-than-boom.html

Sound Devices will reveal...something, on Tuesday, November 19th at 9am. Trew Audio L. A. will be live streaming the announcement Perhaps some stereophonic cufflinks? Link to Trew Audio event...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/11/break-out-yer-fancy-pants.html

"...Walter Murch lauded him, commenting that film sound could be divided into 'Before Dolby and After Dolby.' The 'Before Dolby' era – from the beginning of recorded sound – was characte...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/09/ray-dolby-1933-2013.html

> "We hadn’t seen the rehearsal, so we needed to be ready for any > possibility. In the tub, Douglas and Damon’s close-ups were shot > at the same time so we�...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/08/behind-cadelabratheres-mic.html

Wind can be the bane of a mixer's existence. Even a gentle breeze across a mic's diaphragm can result in turbulent distortion, sounding less like a pleasant summer day and more like the first sta...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/08/the-fur-flies.html

We mixers can be a surly lot. Sometimes it's the grind of twelve-plus hour days and bad coffee from crafty; others times, it's simply the fact that sound is the only department that would take us...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/07/an-island-amid-ocean.html

Too often in our relentless pursuit of quiet backgrounds and running refrigerators, we sometimes forget that as much as sound mixing is a technical art, it is also a business. Since a good port...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/06/all-up-in-yo-bizness-software.html

Earlier this year, Glenn Trew wrote about his experience with the Zaxcom 742 plug-on transmitter: > So, the Zaxcom 742 plug-on pure digital transmitter is nicely made, > lightweight,...

http://www.syncsoundcinema.com/2013/06/wireless-go-boom.html