12 earwigs...OMG

Live vocal record to prerecorded music with 12 cast members. Very high
pucker factor.

Cabrillo Beach

aka. McKinley High football field.

Stage 15

This is a view of our McKinley High set. We're filming in the Choir
Room when this was taken. It's pretty well lit up in the middle
area. Kinda cool...

Glee - extended trailer

The new trailer for Glee.

Enjoy!

pwp

Thursday on Glee

I'm so happy to be back on stage after an incredibly windy day in Long
Beach yesterday. We had some dialog on the football field, but mostly
we just got beat up by the wind. Then we moved into the auditorium
for a big musical number.

Today I'm hunkered down in my little corner of the McKinley High
School set on stage 15 at Paramount. Nice and cozy. Lots of playback
today...makes it fun to watch. Much more dialog recording later, so
I'm enjoying the break.

Lots of folks have been asking about the new Sennheiser A5000CP
antenna that I have started using. I'm very happy with it so far.
Been putting it through the paces and there seems to be quite a bit of
improvement over the shark fins. I hope Lectrosonics will enter the
game with their own version. The Sennheiser is quite expensive.

_________________________________
Phillip W. Palmer, CAS

Musical at Cabrillo

That's Patrick Martens and Harsha First way up in the back setting the
stereo mic.

Boom pole uses

Sometimes you need to place a mark high on the bounce.

Cheerios!

1st iPhone update

Finally getting to know my blogger settings a bit better.

The new 'the daily carpet' blog has been getting some regular updates. Lots of opportunity on our show Glee.

http://dailycarpet.blogspot.com

I'll try and get more Glee updates rolling. We are just now completing
episode 5, with 7 more to shoot.

Phillip W. Palmer, CAS

-- Sent from my iPhone

the daily carpet

You'll get the idea...

the daily carpet

Beginning week 8 - Glee

We're a couple of days into episode 105.  The cast has been doing quite a bit of promotion, stealing some of their weekends.  Fox is heavy on the previews during American Idol.

Hope you enjoy!  

We're looking forward to it too....

pwp

End week 5

We are done with week 5 and almost completed with episode 103 for Glee season 1.  We currently have a 13 episode order, but who knows...that could always change.  

Starting to settle into a groove with all the playback and sound recording duties.  We have added quite a bit of gear from what we started with on the pilot.  A playback cart has been built for permanent use.  We are installing powered speakers, JBL EON10's, in the choir room set.  So much playback is in that set and the speaker stands and cables on the floor have become problematic.  An install will save a lot of work and make things go so much smoother.  Speakers arrived on Friday, install happening this week.  

My loaned/borrowed stereo mic and spare Comtek base station is about to go out on another show, so I have to make some acquisitions fairly soon of those items.  I love using the stereo mic for crowds, football games, etc.  It just adds so much to the wild tracks.  Post seems to enjoy them, so we'll keep trying to deliver.

I am very happy about this show.  Can't wait for it to air.  And it sounds good too.  :)

A5000CP

Just ordered a Sennheiser A5000CP circularly polarized antenna.  Full nerd on there.

I'm looking forward to introducing it to my wireless receiver path.  Should have updates soon.

pwp

Fraturday

Eww boy.  Yep...long night.  We started out the evening with a 5:30 call.  This was fine except we work in Los Angeles, which means nothing moves very fast on the highways from about 3pm till 7pm.  It took me just over 2 and a half hours to get to work.  I needed my brain washed out as soon as I got here.

Well, we're working hard to get this 3 days of work done in 2...and we are almost done.  We have the sun coming up in about an hour and a half, which will bring this all to a halt.  Then the joyful ride home into the sun.  

pwp

Thriday

I'm currently sitting in my tent and it's 2:25am.  Filming tonight in Long Beach on a football field at Cabrillo High School.  Pretty tired now...drinking coffee.  The TV shooting schedule is a tough one.

We are winding up week 4 of shooting for season of Glee for Fox.  Having a great time, really.  I think I can speak for my crew here and say we are very happy to be a part of this one.

Here's a pic of me earlier...I was more awake then.

pwp

just joined twitter

https://twitter.com/pwpmixer

playback cart pic

Here's a quick iPhone picture of the playback cart in action today.

Using a Macbook with ProTools LE and an MBox mini.

pwp

Glee in production

We are into production of the first season of Glee for Fox Television.  Actual live blogging from the set right here...  I'm set up in one of our classrooms on our stages at Paramount.  Loving the sets that have been constructed.  We started work this past week and have already done several music numbers.  All great stuff so far...

Very happy with the playback setup that we have put together for the show.  For Glee, since we have so much playback and music, we have a playback rig permanently set up on the sound trailer.  The cart has a ProTools rig, mixer, speakers, and interconnectivity to my rig.  We can roll it out whenever we have music and it connects directly to me, or can operate independently.

I'll post some pictures soon...

p

Hello February

Now that the month of January has passed us by, it's time I wrote on my blog.

My crew and I are about to start production on the new Fox series Glee.  We will be filming mostly at Paramount, with some locations near the studios for our "out" days.  The new series is supposed to air with the final few episodes of American Idol.  So...hopefully, we will see some audience carry over from the Fox juggernaut.  

Lots of sound challenges on the new show including lots of playback and music recording.  Looking forward to the experience.

On the gear front, I've had all my radios that were in the blocks that the FCC has sold off changed and refrequencied to legal blocks.  This ended up costing me quite a bit, so I hope the results will be worth it.  I just didn't feel like dealing with it in the middle of a show, so now felt like a good time to switch over. 

The new utility cart ROCKS!  Thank you Brett.  He's built another one for Peter Devlin and he just started using it on his current film.  Peter is quite happy too.  Can't recommend the cart enough.

Need to purchase and stereo mic in the near future as well as an additional Comtek Base Station, for ear wigs.

First thing I'm buying is the new Sennheiser C5000 circularly polarized antenna.  Good reports all around, and the reality shows have been using them in their installations for a couple of years now.  I'm ready for one.

There's the update.

pwp

Happy Holidays to everyone

It's the day after Christmas here in Southern CA.  Christmas day was a rainy and cold one for those who stayed here in town.  Today...it's about freezing outside, Kathy had to scrape the ice off her car this morning.  Personally...I love it...  Weather is good.

I'm happy to report that Glee is green lit to go into full series production.  We did the pilot in November, and plan to join the series as well.  Very much looking forward to the show.  It's a both a challenge and quite fun to work on a musical.

Sent off a bunch of wireless to Lectro to get checked out and updated.  Moving some blocks around due to the new FCC laws.  I was going to wait and see...but the break in work allowed me to do the change without effect.  Adding a Venue system to the main cart.  Also considering the new Sennheiser Circularly Polarized Helical antennae for the main cart.  Always looking to better my wireless performance.

Let's hope SAG hears the voices of reason and does not go on strike.

pwp