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WHAT OUR MEMBERS DO: Christina (Chuyue) Wen, Dialogue Editor, Mix Technician
“I have always been fascinated with sound in films.”
Scoring Mixer
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Emmys 2019: How the Team Behind ‘Deadwood: The Movie’ Captured the Sounds of the Old West
“I wanted to make sure that we were hearing the right train, the right kind of Baldwin Locomotive.”
Columns
Whisky, Sax and Darth Vader: How Phil McGowan Dressed Up His Home Mixing Bay
McGowan has tricked out his home mixing bay with various mementos from his past, including the old audio equipment he used to learn his craft, his diploma from Boston’s fabled Berklee College of Music and an impressive collection of Scotch whisky he acquired during his travels.
Features
Witch Doctors – ‘Sabrina’s’ Sound Crew Casts Its Spell
by Mel Lambert • portraits by Martin Cohen Inspired by the Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic book series from Archie Comics […]
Awards
Cinema Audio Society Announces CAS Awards Nominees
The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 55th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2018 in seven categories.,“It is always my distinct pleasure to congratulate our colleagues on their stellar work,” said CAS President Mark Ulano.
Departments
Sometimes a Great Notion;
The Beat Goes On with Studio One 4
I’ve tried out a lot of Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) for music production over the years. The first one I sunk my teeth into was Cubase but, along the way, I’ve bumped into others, each with its own cadre of devotees.
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Post-Production as a Team Sport:
Masters of Sound Panel Focuses on Collaboration
“Developing a soundtrack is a collaborative process, from the spotting session to the dub stage,” stressed Oscar–nominated sound designer, supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Ai-Ling Lee, CAS.
Columns
Alan Meyerson on ‘The Thin Red Line’
Meyerson momentarily stopped thinking of scores like songs for one of his most personally significant projects: writer-director Terrence Malick’s World War II drama ‘The Thin Red Line,’ released by 20th Century Fox in December 1998.
Features
Score Keepers: Mixers Who Capture Composers’ Cues
They say brevity is the soul of wit, and scoring mixers seem to have a sense of humor about what their job entails. “We get coffee for the composer. End of inter- view,” Alan Meyerson jokes. Well, not so fast.
Features
Settler of Scores: John Kurlander Mixes Music for Film
Probably best known for his creative work on the scores for director Peter Jackson’s The Lord of The Rings trilogy, scoring mixer John Kurlander earned three consecutive Best Score Soundtrack Album Grammy Awards for Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Return of the King.
