tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61270962024-03-19T02:18:14.659-07:00the sound cart...notes and comments from Phillip W. Palmer, CAS.
Production Sound MixerPhillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-32777707805964280512015-01-28T09:41:00.002-08:002015-01-28T09:41:59.843-08:00Daniel McCoy, CAS and his use of the SD664. Great article.
Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-33978964101670528532013-09-05T13:22:00.001-07:002013-09-05T13:22:48.443-07:00I've added a drop down/fold over keyboard for control of the PIX260i. Brett Grant-Grierson made this for me, as he has all my carts. Nice work...
Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-10724616666299746032013-08-17T08:51:00.002-07:002013-08-17T08:54:20.079-07:00Ok! Well...pretty sad blogging on my part. Here's a Season 5 Glee update....
We just started our new season and I've done quite a bit of re-jiggering of the cart. Most notably, adding the Sound Devices PIX260i recorder into the rig. I am using DANTE by Audinate as my interconnectivity between the Yamaha O1V96 and the PIX and DEVA. I have replaced the AES card in thePhillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-56441179611231162752012-03-06T12:23:00.001-08:002012-03-06T12:26:42.395-08:00It's amazing... we are up to our 370th music production number on Glee. Episode 316 and counting. I never thought I'd do this much music in one show.PWPPhillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-3852546805550006682011-10-16T13:27:00.000-07:002011-10-16T13:38:39.791-07:00CAS Parade of Sound Carts 10/15This past Saturday we had our CAS sponsored Parade of Sound Carts at the Local 80 stage in Burbank, CA. What on overwhelming success and turnout of both participants and their gear, production mixers, boom operators and students. It warmed my heart to see such an event so dedicated to our craft of production sound recording on location. Once again it proved to me how specialized our craft is Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-88717854869198695532011-08-16T17:13:00.000-07:002011-08-16T17:23:30.992-07:00Sound & PictureEmmy Spotlight - Sound and Picture.
Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-2454438276406395552011-08-04T17:59:00.000-07:002011-08-04T18:06:59.319-07:00Glee Season 3And so we begin Season 3. My crew for this go around will be pretty much the same, with the minor shuffle of Devendra Cleary moving to Playback only and Mitchell Gehbard coming in as Sound Utility for the full run of the show. Devendra will be spending his non playback days establishing himself as a mixer here in Los Angeles.We start principal photography on Tuesday with our sound prep startingPhillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-57874626984238703562011-07-27T15:10:00.000-07:002011-07-27T15:21:02.112-07:00Finally finishing the upgrade.Okay, just about done with the cart re-build. A couple of things will be done, but it's just about ready to go.Here is the cart just before we put the final patch and recorders onto the recorder deck.Here is the rear panel with patch bays.This is the front view with with all devices actually running. Computer is connected to both the MH unit via FireWire and the O1v via USB.Closer view of the Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-464149520839481412011-07-08T17:34:00.000-07:002011-07-08T17:46:07.036-07:00Upgrade continues 7/8I've started remounting and re-rigging the gear. The Lectro Venues have moved up a space, giving enough room for a new set of 5" monitors. The recorder platform will go right above the new Metric Halo Mobile I/O which is acting as my ADAT to analog D/A converter.The recorder platform will hold the new DEVA 16 and the Sound Devices 702T back up recorder. I'll mount the Rollogic remote Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-23516005186650896712011-07-05T11:15:00.000-07:002011-07-06T14:44:04.573-07:00Summer cart cleaning/re-wire and upgradeI've got a few weeks off and have the opportunity to upgrade and re-wire my cart. It's an opportunity to pull all the gear out and give it a good cleaning as well. I'll be upgrading the recorder to a DEVA 16, allowing me to go up to 16 tracks. I'll have to add an ADAT to analog D/A converter to the rig to get the additional 8 tracks into the deck. I'll probably be replacing the triple 4" Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-34442619802723021682011-06-13T06:55:00.001-07:002011-06-13T07:01:55.662-07:00American Horror StoryWithin a week after finishing up season 2 of Glee, we began filming the FX series pilot of American Horror Story. It's being produced and directed by Ryan Murphy, so we rolled right into production. No rest for the weary I suppose.We are just 2 days from finishing the 15 day pilot and looking forward to some time off this summer. It's been 11 months since I took any sort of extended vacation, Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-77212922471465659942011-05-15T06:22:00.000-07:002011-05-15T06:27:16.723-07:00Glee Season 2 Wrapped!A bit late but in time to air...Glee season 2 has wrapped. I want to thank my crew, Patrick Martens and Devendra Cleary for a great season. Also a big thank you to all the boom operators and mixers who came in and helped out on our big days. Next season will be more of the same. I'll see you all in August.Next up, American Horror Story. Couldn't be farther from Glee...Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-87677193832089462582011-04-03T07:12:00.000-07:002011-04-03T07:26:23.060-07:00One month to goWe're down to the last month of filming of Glee season 2. Finishing up episodes 18 and 19, while starting 20. It's been a long road in production since last July. On the tech side, we are very happy with the change over to CF media and the pdf sound report delivery. Our Telecine tech from Encore, Michael Maher, visited the set on Friday to get a sense of what we deal with on a daily basis. Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-60752450442240354952011-02-22T04:31:00.000-08:002011-02-25T12:40:36.603-08:00CF updateVery happy to report that after a week of CF delivery we are all very happy with the results. Encore, our Telecine facility, has a system with checking in and out the CF cards with a bar code on each. Our post crew is dumping the files to hard drive and Technicolor is swapping out hard drives weekly. No one seems to miss the DVD-RAM's at all, which was my hope all along.The PDF sound reports Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-6603991525620195902011-02-06T07:02:00.000-08:002011-02-22T04:44:43.996-08:00Goodbye DVD-RAM......at least on Glee. Since the pilot of Glee we have used DVD-RAM media our our primary delivery of sound recordings to telecine and post production, as do most shows in network television and motion pictures. At least here in the United States. For years now I've had the desire to move away from DVD-RAM, to a more efficient, less fragile, higher capacity media like Compact Flash or other Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-52054599651821113072010-11-30T21:09:00.001-08:002010-11-30T21:09:20.868-08:00Cart expansion plansThe change to the O1V96 console has opened up the possibility to do much more than ever before with a location sound cart. I've decided on a plan of expansion to move from an 8 track system to a 16 track system. Here's the rough details.I will continue to use the AES card in the Yamaha O1V for the 8 channels of digital I/O, which is currently tracks 1-8 on the DEVA 5.8. My plan is to change my Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-70219913403890931982010-09-26T14:18:00.000-07:002010-09-26T14:21:01.667-07:00O1V96 on locationAs posted on the O1V96 Production Sound Users Group.I wanted to give an update on my first 2 months with the O1V96 on location and stage. Mainly to give those that are considering this as an alternative to the analog consoles that have been the mainstay for location sound recording for many years. Without a doubt, this has been a far easier transition than I had anticipated. At first glance, and Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-54478286016119154592010-08-22T21:17:00.000-07:002010-08-23T04:51:57.870-07:002010 Prime Time Emmy winners!!! Sound Mixing for 1 Hour Drama or ComedyThis about says it all! Thank you so much to everyone. Our Producers: Ryan Murphy. Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Dante DeLaretto, Kenneth Silverstein, Alexis Woodall, Brad Bueker. My crew: Patrick Martens, Devendra Cleary, and all those boom operators who come in for our day calls. My wife Kathy Davis. And I must thank the full crew of Glee led by our Director of Photography Christopher Baffa, Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-29987084922681094812010-08-08T12:24:00.000-07:002010-08-08T12:35:17.561-07:00First week with the new consoleThis was the ultimate test for me and the new O1v96 mixer. I practiced a bit off line, but there's nothing like the real thing. We started season 2 of Glee on July 28 and I jumped in with both feet, and the new mixer. At this point, I couldn't ever see going back to an analog mixer. Especially one that is limited to 8 input channels. The Cooper 208D is probably the best sounding mixer I havePhillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-78769414791391032422010-07-09T08:27:00.000-07:002010-07-09T08:35:51.063-07:002010 Emmy nominationYesterday was a big day in the Palmer household. At 5:40am the announcements detailing the nominations of the 2010 Prime Time Emmy awards were released. I'm proud to say the sound department has been nominated this year for the Glee episode 'The Power of Madonna'. I am nominated along side with the post production mixers, Joe Earle and Doug Andham. I could not have done it without the help ofPhillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-23421271304470636502010-06-05T06:53:00.001-07:002010-06-05T06:53:45.113-07:00O1V96 cart load upI've pretty much completed the load of gear. There are few things left to tidy up, but the signal path test through is complete. The result is far more routing and functionality. The console is quiet, endless routing and much easier to use than originally thought. It's the equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife. I'll post a more detailed list of gear and it's power distribution Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-58412456888598394572010-05-18T13:35:00.000-07:002010-05-18T13:46:14.801-07:00Cart clean up and overhaulI haven't done all the wiring yet, but here is a preliminary look at what is shaping up. Had to do some modifications to shelves today. Hoping to have it wired up and testing audio tomorrow.Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-82622665567701164602010-05-08T17:15:00.000-07:002010-05-08T17:25:18.942-07:00O1V96 production sound users groupThere are several sound newsgroups and forums on the web currently that deal with the complete scope of production sound recording for film and television. After many emails and phone conversations during the process of my mixing panel upgrade, we felt there might be a home for a specific group that dealt with the Yamaha O1V96 and it's use as a mixing platform in location sound recording for Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-38297712265754098722010-03-31T06:30:00.000-07:002010-03-31T06:34:19.179-07:00Panel swap and cart overhaulWell, it's been a couple if years. I've had time to really get to know and use my current cart configuration. Still, to this day the best set up I've put together. But my current show has taxed my mixing panel and it's routing and output ability. So, on our break between seasons of Glee...I will overhaul the interior rack of my cart and install a Yamaha 01v96 console in place of the current Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127096.post-45769513434964906142010-01-31T06:59:00.000-08:002010-01-31T07:03:38.394-08:00CAS nominationThe re-recording mixers for Glee, Joe Earle and Doug Andham, and I have been nominated for a CAS award. The nom is for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series for the Glee episode 'Wheels', directed by Paris Barkley. The awards will be given at the annual CAS banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on February 27. Wish us luck!!!Phillip W. Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063816827389290908noreply@blogger.com0