CAS nomination

The 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!!!

Glee wins Golden Globe

It was a great pleasure to see our cast and producers accept the Golden Globe for best comedy series. The other shows were so strong, and to be included in the nominations was an honor I'm sure. Ryan was kind to thank the crew in his acceptance speech...Thank You Ryan! We are so proud of the show! Congratulations to the cast and crew! And now....back to work. :) 9am call today. It should be a fun day on set.

pwp

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone. Adios to 2009, bring on the 10.

I'm looking forward to bringing in the new year with all my friends at
Glee next week.

Phillip W. Palmer, CAS

-- Sent from my iPhone

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Getting ready to start my prep for the upcoming back 9 episodes of Glee. I'm adding some gear to the playback and music portion of the package. More earwigs and a thumper system most notably. We're also installing more speakers in the choir room, high school main set. It gets the speakers up and out of the way, clear of the crew while working. Saving us from getting blasted from the loud music when doing the music numbers. Probably adding some long carpet runners for the hallways, can't seem to have enough carpet.

Really looking forward to getting back to McKinley High. The show is doing very well, and we are proud of our work. It's been a long break from Glee, time to get back to school.

PWP

Las Vegas

We're done with our run on NCIS:Los Angeles. Doing some day playing and 2nd units till we go back to Glee in January.

This week we are in Las Vegas working on the movie The Other Guys for a couple of days. The show is shot in New York but they have a couple of scenes that take place in Las Vegas. My good friend Tom Nelson is mixing the show in New York and he called me to take care of the LV portion.

Today we are filming a bit of a Vegas show. Should be great. Having fun...enjoying the change of pace.

updates...

It's been quite a while since updates, sorry about that. NCIS:LA is quite a show, and takes a lot out of me. Blogging has fallen behind.

We have just about completed episode 8 for the new season and we are just getting going. Lots more to do as the season will be at the least, 22 episodes.

It's interesting that this year, both shows that I have done are picked up for full seasons. That...boggles my mind. Glee will begin filming it's "back 9" episode order in January.

New additions to the gear package include another DEVA. I purchased a new DEVA 5.8 for the cart and the older DEVA V has been put in a bag for run rigs/insert cars/etc. Previously I had a Sound Devices 442/744 combo for this purpose, but 4 tracks wasn't enough. The DEVA interface and ease of use is too hard to ignore so...I had to make the change. Plus, the comfort of having a back up DEVA on site is worth it to me.

Also, I had a carpet cart made by Brett Grant-Grierson. He has manufactured both my main recording cart and my utility cart. It's a simple "shopping cart" style, but as you might say...it's on steroids. All steel and powder coated black, this cart will not yield to the weight of the rubber mats as the rest have done!

New video and music promo for NCIS: Los Angeles. Enjoy...

Support your local sound mixer

Watch Glee this week! The season premiere of Glee is Wednesday September 9 at 9p east and west, 8 central on FOX. If you liked the pilot, you'll love the series. My crew and I are very happy with our work on this one...it was a challenge and a pleasure.

Hope you enjoy it.

PWP

Another busy day on NCIS:LA

ncis: los angeles

Sorry it's been a while folks. I'm coming out of the fog now.

We finished up Glee at the end of July, what a great run of show that was. We will know more regarding the show fate as the season airs in September. My crew and I had one day off to push the gear from stage 15 to stage 9 at Paramount and begin our stint on the new CBS show NCIS: Los Angeles. The new show stars Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J. We've been at it for a couple of weeks now, and have settled in. Pretty much a 180 degree spin from Glee... Lots of moving around and locations on this new show. Getting my legs back on, after spending so much time on stage with the Gleeks.

More later...

Bust the windows!

New music video from Glee!!

3 booms, no waiting

Harsha Furst, Devendra Cleary and Patrick Martens. Episode 112/Glee.

Added another Venue

2 wide band low Venue's on the main cart now.

Boom Ops

My crew for the last year. A great team. Patrick Martens on boom and
Devendra Cleary is 2nd Boom and Playback. Can't thank you guys enough.

the day after

Last night Glee premiered to about 11 million viewers here in the US.  We're quite happy here in Gleeville, high fives all around.  There was much celebrating in New York this past weekend, with the cast appearing at the FOX upfront presentation.  Now the hard work must continue.

We are finishing up episode 8 of our 12 episode order.  After completing this episode, we will have 3 days of clean up photography to finish up all the odds and ends that we need to complete any previous episodes.  Before beginning episode 9, we will take a 9 day hiatus.  This will give the writers and the music folks a chance to get a little ahead of our production schedule.  

Congratulations to all at Glee for a job well done on the pilot.  Great reviews all around. Looking forward to the fall, and the additional episodes to follow.

pwp

Glee in Sierra Madre

Sound cart in line for a lube job.

Deconstructing Glee with Ryan Murphy

3 cameras and waiting

Cams getting ready for the slushy fight!

Baby Ball Gag

Funny name, but a great windcreen. Shown here on a MKH50. This all but
eliminates wind puffs on big quick moves as well as makes it available
for some light exteriors.

ep 107 day 6

We are just about done with episode 7 of our first season of Glee.  It's been a great ride so far, much more to do.  We premiere the pilot on May 19 at 9pm on FOX.  Hope you can watch.

Here's a view from my world this evening.

I pretty amazed at the amount of playback and music that we do on a regular basis for an episodic TV show. It's become routine for us, but in any other situation it might seem overwhelming. For each episode we have anywhere from 4 to 8 full music production numbers per episode. We bring in extra personnel as needed for each day of playback. It gets busy. Very happy so far and our production workflow has been solid.  Touch wood...

pwp