We talk with the audio team behind the smash hit film Top Gun Maverick about making the film sound bombastic and loud while also letting smaller sounds, like the pilots breathing, play prominently to build tension. Sound supervisors Al Nelson, James Mather and Bjorn Schroeder are joined by re-recording mixers…
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discussions about field recording
We talk with Thomas Rex Beverly about his amazing field recording trip to Greenland to capture the sounds of remote glaciers. He tells us about lowering microphones into ice crevasses, and what it takes to record the sounds of glaciers calving into the arctic ocean. If you want to know…
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We are joined by Kai Paquin to talk about the Mid/Side microphone shootout he posted on his sound blog recently. The specific microphone models compared are: Schoeps MK41 // MK8, Nevaton MC59 // MC59-8, Sennheiser MKH 8050 // MKH 30, and Sennheiser MKH 40 // MKH 30. You can download…
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We are joined by co-supervising Sound Editors Jill Purdy and Nathan Robitaille from the new Guillermo del Toro film, Nightmare Alley. They tell us about having to set the “tone” for both halves of the film, one half is open, mechanical and gritty, while the other half is sleek and…
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