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.... Production Sound Mixer Jamie Gambell AMPS writes, “Having moved over to the US towards the end of last year, thanks to a number of contacts I’d made previous to the move, some very helpful people at the Local 695 and a pinch of luck, I managed to remain unemployed for the princely total of 18 days before starting up as Sound Utility on Crime Scene Investigation. Now in its 9th season, I started on the episode which sees long standing cast member William Petersen leaving, to be replaced by Laurence Fishburne. It’s shot a ten-minute cycle ride from home, the hours aren’t too disastrous, and it runs for near enough nine months of the year! It’s a twocamera show, so lots of radio mic use, but it’s been running for so long that the process is slick, the placement and hiding incredibly inventive and the cast great. We’ve just started shooting episode 200, directed by William Friedkin, who is fantastic, in his 70s, fiery, energetic, and knows what he wants.” .... Supervising Sound Editor Eddy Joseph AMPS writes, “I was thrilled to receive a BAFTA Nomination for Quantum of Solace and was pleased for Glenn and his team to be recognised by both BAFTA and the Academy for their work on Slumdog Millionaire. A good year for British Sound! Soundelux are having a solid start to 2009 with No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency TV Series and Paul Greengrass’ Green Zone. Simon Chase is supervising the series with Richard Fordham and Colin Ritchie on Dialogues and Martin Cantwell and Dave Mackie on FX; Alex Joseph and Harry Barnes are looking after the Foley. Oliver Tarney and I are supervising Green Zone with James Boyle AMPS and James Harrison on FX, Becki Ponting on Dialogues and Alex on Foley. We’ve also completed a series of commercials for Lux, which Martin and Colin have been looking after.” .... Supervising Sound Editors Bernard O’Reilly AMPS, and Andrew Stirk have just finished the sound design and re-recording respectively, on Lesbian Vampire Killers. Barnaby Smyth submerged himself in goo as Foley editor and artist, recording at the new Hackenbacker studio, and was very pleased with the results. Michele Woods looked after the ADR and vampire sounds at Pepper Post and Gerard Loret AMPS looked after the recuts. The pre mixing was done in an edit room using the digital Genelec 8200 series speakers and the final mix at Pepper Post with the help of Dave Turner AMPS now Head of Audio at Pepper. .... Foley Mixer Dave Humphries AMPS has been working at Roger Patel’s new Foley facility, Everything Audio at Elstree Studios. Only finished in the New Year. It has nine large surfaces and a water 14 WHO’S AT WHAT amps Journal tank, plus an adjoining edit room both running Pro Tools 7.4 systems. Roger also has the benefit of the Elstree Studios prop room at his disposal. Everything Audio’s Foley studio (above and larger right)) and (below) the Edit Room in preparation) First through the door was a series of commercials for Wickes, featuring lots of drilling, hammering and sawing. Next a Turkish film, Recep Ivedik 2, released by Melodika, with sound editing and final mixing by Taylan Oguz. The film has already been released and is apparently a huge success; in the first three days 1.5 million people have been to see it. Lately, The Be All & End All for Director Bruce Webb with dialogue editing by Justine Angus and mixing to be handled by Kath Pollard at Pepper Post. Dave shot and edited the Foley, which was walked by Ted and Diane Swanscott. Dave has also been working at Fonic Sound, recording and editing Foley for She, a Chinese, Directed by Xiaolu Guo; dialogues by Philippe Ciompi and sound FX by Rob Bourke AMPS. No need to wait till we ask - e-mail any details about recent work and pictures to whois@amps.net or by post to the AMPS office - and you’re in the next issue
AMPS Sustaining Member Everything Audio’s new Foley facility at Elstree - details page left YOU KNOW THE NAME .... WHO’S AT WHAT Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822-1880) LISSAJOUS Jules Lissajous was a French Professor of Mathematics with a successful academic career. His specialist area was waves and vibration. Early work involved finding techniques for the visual display of vibration - a tuning fork in contact with water, and later, a method for reflecting a beam of light off a mirror attached to a vibrating object which was then displayed on a screen. While not the first to research this field his simpler approach yielded better results. By reflecting light serially from two mirrors on two vibrating tuning forks positioned at right angles he was able to create what became known as ‘Lissajous Figures’, which were only possible to be viewed at that time due to the human eye’s persistence of vision. Lissajous Figures are today commonly used for graphically displaying the phase difference between two audio signals by applying them to the X and Y inputs (90 degree difference) of an oscilloscope-type display. Identical (mono) same phase signals produce a 45 degree straight line while a stereo signal creates a moving ‘ball of string’ Lissajous pattern. Experienced observers can determine a lot of information about the compared signals. Aside from their phase relationship this can include the amount of crosstalk between related (such as stereo) signals and hence their their separation. The Lissajous patterns are not necessarily an accurate display of higher audio frequencies. This type of display was very important for vinyl disc where significant phase differences might lead to difficulties in cutting the groove. They also had roles in analogue tape machine alignment but still make a useful tool in any situation where a knowledge of the relationship between two signals is important. amps Journal 15
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