Now here! Sound Devices CL-8 Controller for the 788T
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Do You Know More Sports Than A Housewife?
If we may pause for a more personal note,
Gotham would like to congratulate Jim Guzzi's sister Kristin, who, as the
titular housewife, triumphed in the most recent iteration of Do You Know
More Sports Than A Housewife? on the Boomer & Carton Show on WFAN.
Listen below:
The Memory Loss Tapes on HBO
Shari Cookson and Nick Doob's deeply moving documentary, The Memory Loss Tapes, premiered last Sunday as part of HBO's Alzheimer's Project. It's a gripping piece of filmmaking and Gotham is proud to have provided sound support for it. Watch for it - it'll be re-airing throughout the month of May.
Metric Halo Announces the ULN-8!
After three years in beta, the Metric
Halo
ULN-8 is now available, suitable for all your audio
converting, processing, preamping and interfacing needs!
They're shipping now, so order yours today!
True Life Media
Friend of Gotham,
True Life Media is a fine video production
company, specializing in promo videos for non-profits and
other entities. They've just put their 2009 demo video
online, so it's a great
chance to take a look!
New Gotham Gazette for May!
Rachel Getting Married If you're saw Gotham's debut at Studio Daily (and if not, why not?), you already saw Chris Newman's interview with Jeff Pullman about the sound challenges posed by Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married. But there plumb wasn't enough space for all the good stuff, so now read the unexpurgated version, with more Jonathan Demme stories, Chris on the development of multi-tracking, and Jeff on not getting killed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Free RED Camera Gotham Digital Seminars
Our sister company Gotham Digital is offering free classes on the RED camera and a variety of other fascinating seminars. Check out their listings below the jump. FULL STORY
Premiered at NAB
Another NAB come and gone. Another slate of nifty products premiered. Call Gotham today to preorder any of these brand new items:
PSC Solice Review The new PSC Solice mixer promises a lot. Bryan Dembinski puts it through its paces. FULL STORY
Dateline: April 1st, 2009
Unlock the Power of
Portability
LaCie
has just put out three nifty new key drives. The
itsaKey and
iamaKey are robust portable USB Flash drives, available
in 4GB and 8GB models, and the
PassKey will take your old microSD card and turn it into
a Flash drive. All three are rugged enough to actually
travel on your keychain.
To celebrate, for a limited time,
Gotham will be giving out a free Key of your choice with
every purchase of a new recorder or Zaxcom wireless system!
Solice Mixer Now Shipping!
PSC's long-awaited eight-channel Solice Audio Mixer is now shipping! Stop by Gotham to check one out today or order your very own!
Schoeps CMIT-5U Shotgun Bundle Rebates!
Rycote and Schoeps have teamed up to offer some excellent Schoeps CMIT-5U
bundles, only for the month of March. Take advantage of them to get the nifty
CMIT-5U shotgun with your choice of accessories:
Some terms and conditions apply. Call us today to order yours, while supplies
last!
New Gotham Gazette Out!
A brand new Gotham Gazette is out!
Check out the contents below or read it here.
Tax Preparation for Film Crew
Ah, tax season, when a young film crew member's fancy turns to thoughts of deductions. And 1099's. And IRS schedules and wondering why on earth you thought it was a good idea to keep your receipts in a box full of poisonous asps? Anne K. Johnson, tax & production accountant, guides you through some of the pitfalls.
Zaxcom has announced a great special to celebrate the launch of their new TRX992 boom transceiver Any customer who orders a TRX992 and RX900s before April 9th, 2009 will get anIFB100 transmitter for free. Limit one per customer, but, hey, are you going to complain about a free IFB100? I thought not.
Matt Schneider of PostWorks New York tells us they've been testing it and it works great: “Media Composer 3.5’s new ability to import multi-channel, monophonic BWF audio as a single master clip has completely eliminated the previously arduous task of using 3rd party software tools to interleave audio prior to import. This render was time-intensive, required double the storage, and slowed down the process of making dailies available in a speedy manner. It has and will make lives easier for film assistants everywhere! It is also an enormous help to those recording for reality TV content where lengthy recording times and multi-character sets push file sizes far beyond the 2GB file limit. Small feature, huge benefit!”
So there goes one more brick in the wall between sound mixers and post-production. Solidarity!
The White Stuff
You thought it was over. But the turmoil over white spaces rages on!
And, hey, it's not all political wrangling and lawsuits and gloom.
ShowMyWhitespace.com
is a nifty new website set up which allows users to search for the open TV white
space channels anywhere in the United States. Should be handy if we end up
fighting like trapped rats for vanishingly small corners of the spectrum! You can pre-register your wireless mic with them now.
New Products at NAB
Zaxcom has just announced the slate of products they'll be
premiering at NAB 2009 in April and it's a doozy:
Lectrosonics will be premiering their nifty HM transmitter, featuring 100mW RF power, LCD and membrane switches for settings and monitoring, and phantom powering for condenser microphones.
Be sure to visit Zacom at Booth N3114 and Lectrosonics at N5223. We'll check it all out and bring you the latest on it if you can't get to
NAB yourself.
G-Tech Introduces Solid-State Drives
G-Tech
has announced a new family of external drives based on 2.5” solid state drive (SSD)
technology – the G-DRIVE mini SSD (120GB
and
250GB) and the RAID 0/1 G-RAID mini SSD (250GB
and
500GB). These high-performance, plug-and-play storage devices are ideal for
the film, television, and broadcasting users who capture, offload and edit
digital content in challenging remote environments. Because the drives have no
moving parts, each drive can withstand extreme shock up to 1500Gs and can endure
higher altitudes, vibration and temperatures when compared to traditional hard
drive-based solutions. Delightfully, these new drives also provide higher data
transfer rates, lower seek times and use less power, all while delivering a
cooler, quieter operation.
They're currently in pre-order - we'll let you know when they ship!
Lectrosonics recently released photos of a nifty new mockup: the 4 unit SRa receiver holder, more colloquially known as an Octopac. "The real thing will have a four way antenna splitter, 8 SMA terminated RF cables, 8 audio output jacks and a battery sled." says Larry Fisher, president of Lectrosonics, "We are trying to figure out what the best combination of size and function is." Lectro is also considering a version that can accomodate the 5P version of the SRa (the one with the TA5F wart on the side).We'll bring you more on the product as it develops.
Help keep film and TV production in the tri-state area by contacting state
officials and asking them to pledge their support for refunding the New York
film and TV incentive:
Governor David A. Paterson
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224 (518) 474-8390 E-mail form
Senate Majority Leader Malcolm A. Smith
909 Legislative Office Building
Albany, NY 12247 (718) 528-4290
masmith@senate.state.ny.us
We encourage you to write, call, and e-mail these men and your local
representatives. It only takes a minute and it helps them understand that this
is an issue you take seriously.
You can also help by
signing this
petition. It also contains a great sample letter. Mention you supported it
on your next visit to Gotham and, for a limited time, receive 10% off your next rental!
New Gotham Gazette Out!
A brand new Gotham Gazette is out!
Check out the contents below or read it here.
Gotham's
Economic Stimulus Package
The Zaxcom
TRX992 is coming! Glenn
Sanders dropped by last week with the
TRX992 prototype and it looks great. It's a single channel transmitter
powered by an innovative rechargeable battery system ideal for wireless boom
pole transmission, IFB return, headphone monitoring and backup recording.
It's due out this quarter, so preorder yours today!
New Frequency
Scans We've updated our
frequency scans page with some taken at the beginning of this year and added
two new locations: the South Street Seaport and Silvercup Studios.
Check 'em out!
Last Look
Harvey
The early nineties were a time of change. The internet was sweeping college
campuses and teenagers were just beginning to sway listlessly to a little
thing called grunge. Meanwhile, Harvey Warnke released his seminal Harvey
Board, providing Nagra IV Stereo users everywhere a versatile, option of
time code.
We've recovered a copy of the manual for your reading pleasure. Enjoy
this look at a piece of sound history and marvel at how far we've come.
Panasonic
Firmware Update Adds Lectro SR 2-Channel Support
Good news for the Lectrosonics SR users out there! Panasonic has released a
firmware update for the HPX series that activates the 2 channel in the
UniSlot. With this update, the list of Panasonic camera that support 2
channels goes as follows: AJ-HPX2000, AJ-HPX2100, AJ-HPX2700, AJ-HPX3000,
and AJ-HPX3700
Alfa
Case, maker of the
Boom Tube have just debuted
their new case. It's ideal for conveniently and safely transporting
your boom kit in a single container with space for a boom pole,
zeppelin, and headphones.
Fostex
has just officially announced their
LR16 Live Mixer/Recorder. It's 16 tracks of mixer with an integrated
multi-track recorder suitable for FOH or onstage mixing while recording
it all at CD quality.
The Zaxcom TRX992 is
Coming!
Glenn
Sanders dropped by last week with the
TRX992 prototype and it looks great. It's a single channel
transmitter powered by an innovative rechargeable battery system
ideal for wireless boom pole transmission, IFB return, headphone
monitoring and backup recording. It's due out this quarter, so
preorder yours today!
Gotham congratulates
our Academy Award nominated clients!
Gotham congratulates
our Golden Globe winning clients!
New Gotham Gazette Out!
A brand new Gotham Gazette is out, chock-full of Holiday goodies!
Check out the contents below or read it here.
Dennis Maitland Speaks
On December 13th, Gotham Sound and Sennheiser hosted veteran film and television sound mixer Dennis Maitland at a screening of the movie Lenny. We present here a selection of classic anecdotes from his talk. We should also note that the anecdotes are unexpurgated, so you may not want to read them aloud with children present.
Do Good. Sound Better.
This holiday season, when you buy certain items from Gotham, we'll send a donation in your name to the Fisher House Foundation, a charitable organization that supports members of the military and their families. See below the jump for more specifics.
The Use of Wireless Mics in the U.S. Beyond the DTV Transition The sky may not be falling; it's just really cloudy!
As 2008 comes to a close, the biggest upheaval our industry has seen are the changes to the RF spectrum. The effect will have far-reaching consequences as sound mixers get squeezed into ever shrinking patches of available frequencies. This article will attempt to explain how we got here, and what our options are looking beyond next year.
First Look – 60 Minutes with the Sound Devices CL-8 What's an hour like with one of the most anticipated control surfaces of 2008? Nick Huston sits down with the Sound Devices CL-8 to find out.
We've
accidentally ended up with a brand new DPA stereo kit that needs a good home, so
we're offering it for a mere $3125 - save $500 off the normal price!
The 4052 Compact Stereo Kit
is a kit with two carefully matched (within 1 dB) 4052
Compact Omni Microphones. Together with the accessories, this kit is designed
especially for low profile mounting directly inside a piano. The goosenecks can
also be mounted directly on microphone stands for various A-B stereo
applications such as a full orchestra in a concert hall, choirs and other
ambient recordings.
The kit comes complete with a pair of each of the
following: silver trapezoid close-miking grids, black diffuse-field grids,
suspension mounts, gooseneck mounts, magnet bases, nose cones, windscreens, and
silver free-field grids. One caveat - the microphone comes with non-removable attached rear cables.
Call us at 212-629-9430 or e-mail us at
sales@gothamsound.com today to take
this adorable kit into your gear!
The Cl-8 Controller is Here!
You
heard it right! The CL-8, faithful mixing control surface companion to the 788T recorder, is on our shelves, all ready to expand the
on-board capabilities of your 788T!
Zaxcom's got no less than three great location recorders out right now.
Learn all about the Fusion (now featuring ten track recording!), the Deva 5.8 and the Deva 16!
Gotham congratulates
our Emmy winning clients!
Score one for the New York sound mixers - Griffin Richardson, Tony Pipitone, and Bill Marino took home Emmys last night for their outstanding work on 30 Rock. Watch the award presentation below. Congratulations, guys!
Also racking up some wins on the home front:
Two Great New Products Announced
Here's some news for all the mixer and mixer-derivative product afficianodos out there: PSC and Sound Devices have each announced a new product, shipping late 2008. PSC has unveiled the PSC Solice (seen at left) an eight-channel mixer and a fine heir to their mixing tradition, while Sound Devices will roll out the CL-8 Controller (at right) which works to expand the capabilties and ease of use of the 788T.
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If you're saw Gotham's debut at Studio Daily (and if not, why not?), you already saw Chris Newman's interview with Jeff Pullman about the sound challenges posed by Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married. But there plumb wasn't enough space for all the good stuff, so now 
The new PSC Solice mixer promises a lot. Bryan Dembinski puts it through its paces.
LaCie
has just put out three nifty new key drives. The
G-Tech
has announced a new family of external drives based on 2.5” solid state drive (SSD)
technology – the G-DRIVE mini SSD (
The
vastly successful New York film and TV tax credit program, which brings millions
of dollars in work and industry into the state is in trouble. They've run out of
funding and the governor's office has "
What's an hour like with one of the most anticipated control surfaces of 2008? Nick Huston sits down with the 
We've
accidentally ended up with a brand new DPA stereo kit that needs a good home, so
we're offering it for a mere $3125 - save $500 off the normal price!
