Panoply Media, the podcast network, was recording voice over for their newly created children’s division. Participating in the session were talent Ella Davis and Dubway staff engineer Zac Suskevich.
Vocal session for Sony Music Spain
Latin Grammy Award winning engineer Luca Germini was in studio last week with Dubway engineer Adrian Thorstensen tracking vocals for a single to be released through Sony Music Spain.
Kathleen Turner and Wallace Shawn recording ADR for "Someone Else's Wedding"
Engineer Sam Palumbo worked with CCI Entertainment, recording ADR for the upcoming movie Someone Else's Wedding. Participating in the session were award-winning actors Kathleen Turner, Wallace Shawn and Luke Kirby, with director Pat Kiely tuned in via Dubway's dedicated Skype interface, SkypeWay.
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Engineer Sam Palumbo with Wallace Shawn at Dubway Studios.
Kathleen Turner is a two-time Golden Globe award-winning actress, also known for her voice acting work as Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Wallace Shawn is a film and voice actor, most recognized for his work in the Toy Story series, The Incredibles, and The Haunted Mansion.
StarTalk Radio Show by Neil DeGrasse Tyson in the mezzanine
We had the pleasure of hosting renowned astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson's podcast "StarTalk Radio Show" in the mezzanine this past March. The session also included video filming for their YouTube series.
StarTalk is a podcast on space, science, and popular culture with various comic and celebrity co-hosts and frequent guests from the worlds of science and entertainment.
ADR for Seeso's 'There’s … Johnny!'
Award-winning actors Roger Bart and Andrew Schulz came into Dubway Studios to record ADR for Seeso's new eight-episode series There's... Johnny! Oscar-nominated comedian and show creator Paul Reiser participated from LA via our new Skype system, "SkypeWay." The session was engineered by Zac Suskevich.
There’s … Johnny! is an upcoming eight-episode comedy series that takes a fictional trip back in time and behind the scenes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The show is to be aired on NBCUniversal's comedy network Seeso.
Roger Bart is a Tony Award-winning actor who is known for his work on The Producers, American Gangster, and Desperate Housewives.
Andrew Schulz is a comedian and TV Personality known for appearing on MTV2's Guy Code and the Amazon original series Sneaky Pete.
Kal Penn recording ADR for upcoming film 'Ashram'
Kal Penn with engineers Adrian Thorstensen and Russell Castiglione, and studio manager Nicole Muzii
Actor Kal Penn, popularly known for his roles in House and the Harold & Kumar series, recorded ADR for the film The Ashram, set to release in 2017. Producer Guneet Dogra participated via phone patch, with Adrian Thorstensen engineering the session.
2017 Daytime Emmy Award nominations for "WallyKazam!"
WallyKazam! is nominated for a 2016 Daytime Emmy! The show has been nominated for Outstanding Pre-School Children's Animated Program, whose audio was produced and recorded with our partner Rhumba, and with Dubway owner Al Houghton as the Sound Production Supervisor for the series. Here's to the great work done at Dubway & Rhumba!
Congratulations to Wallykazam! creator/executive producer Adam Peltzman, Co-Executive Producers Koyalee Chanda, and Dave Palmer, and Producer Sara Kamen!
Geek-Out with Nathaniel - Episode 8: Custom Key Commands
Back in Logic version 2, you could enter your own key commands for nearly every function in the application. This led to a lot of confusion, but it was fun. Mac OS X allows users to add key commands to installed applications, but the process is a little inflexible, and system maintenance can easily erase your work. To address this problem, Keyboard Maestro has become a favorite tool of professional artists. Keyboard Maestro runs as a background process and takes almost no CPU power. I rely on it heavily while using Pro Tools. Here are some of my favorite custom commands:
command-r: Show/Hide Clip Name
option-d: Delete Fades
control-r: open Pitch 'n Time Pro
I’m in the middle of a project that has caused me to become an Izotope RX ninja. You can automate the process of getting from Pro Tools to RX and back:
shift-c (clicks on an open Audiosuite plug-in for RX Connect): RX Connect Send
shift-d (sends the audio back to Pro Tools, waits 0.5 seconds for the application switch, and then renders the audio by hitting the Audiosuite plug-in): RX Connect Render
This greatly speeds up insanely tedious tasks. Here’s a screenshot of my custom key commands. I regularly update these depending on what (tedious) task I’m doing:
All of this is no substitute for learning all the key commands that Pro Tools already has. So for a little bedtime reading, here’s the official shortcut guide. Be careful when adding commands, because if they overlap with existing commands, the computer might yell at you.
Rhumba Music Video mix for Mattel's Barbie Dreamtopia
Rhumba, Dubway's music composition partner, recorded a song in the mezzanine for Mattel's new animated TV series, Barbie Dreamtopia. Here's a video of the song "Roll With It" featuring singers Erica Rabner and Leslie Shannon.
Jason Silva recording VO for National Geographic's "Origins"
TV personality Jason Silva was in studio recording voice-over for Origins: The Journey Of Humankind, National Geographic's newest show to air on March 6th.
Jason Silva is a media artist, public speaker and filmmaker focusing on philosophy, science and art. He created the web series Shots of Awe which has been viewed over 13 million times, and is the Emmy-nominated host of National Geographic's hit TV series Brain Games.
Hosted by Silva, Origins is a new series on National Geographic that "rewinds all the way back to the beginning and traces the innovations that made us modern."
Watch the official trailer below.
The official trailer for ORIGINS! Coming to National Geographic on March 6th - hosted by Jason Silva and created by Melodysheep. Two years ago I conceived of ORIGINS as a new kind of series that tells the story of how humankind came to be.
Music/Post Mix for One Republic's Artists Den performance
Another one for the books! Dubway's own Chris Montgomery engineered the music mix for another installment of the Live From the Artists Den series – this time for popular rock band OneRepublic's performance at Park City Live in Park City, UT.
OneRepublic is an American rock group from Colorado Springs, CO lead by major hit pop songwriter and producer Ryan Tedder. The group is acclaimed for producing smash singles after smash singles in popular music, including "Apologize," "All The Right Moves," "Secrets," "Good Life," and "If I Lose Myself." Their latest album Oh My My was released in the fall of 2016 and debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart.
Live recording and Post Mix for Lady Antebellum's Artists Den performance
Lady Antebellum performing at United Palace Theater for "Live From The Artists Den"
Engineer Sam Palumbo preparing the audio recording for the interview portion of the episode
This February, Dubway had the pleasure of providing the audio recording for another installment of the Live from Artists Den series. Engineers Sam Palumbo and Bea Go went to the majestic United Palace Theatre in Washington Heights, NY to record seven-time Grammy-award winning group Lady Antebellum's performance and interview. Dubway engineer Chris Montgomery is mixing the music for the episode.
The Artists Den is a critically acclaimed television and digital music series best known for presenting small, secret concerts by extraordinary artists in non-traditional, often historic settings for the TV broadcast. Live from the Artists Den is broadcasted nationally on public television, and internationally in the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Latin America. Dubway has recorded and mixed audio for the series' previous episodes featuring Imagine Dragons, The Lumineers, The Killers, Marina and the Diamonds, and Sara Bareilles.
Lady Antebellum's interview took place in the lobby of United Palace.
Lady Antebellum, the country trio based in Nashville, TN, has sold more than 18 million album worldwide, earned six PLATINUM singles, nine chart topping hits and countless other awards including Billboard Music Awards, People’s Choice Awards and Teen Choice Awards, while also taking home ACM and CMA "Vocal Group of the Year” trophies three years in a row. Their upcoming album Heart Break is due for June 9th of this year.
Stay tuned for the release of this episode in 2017.
Acoustiguide presentation for Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
Acoustiguide, the prestigious developer of interactive tours for museums and tourist attractions worldwide, came to Dubway to record the voices for their latest project - the official guide for visitors to NYC's Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, featuring the foundation's President, Stephen A. Briganti.
Surround Mix for David Lang's "the public domain" at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival
Dubway's Nathaniel Reichman worked on the surround mix for the performance of David Lang's "the public domain" commissioned by Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
"the public domain" is a performance piece written by Pulitzer-Prize winning composer David Lang, performed by the public on August 13, 2016 at Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza. Inspired by "the theme of the collective knowledge shared amongst us all," the event brought 3,000 volunteer amateur vocalists together on a hot summer day to perform this piece, conducted by Simon Halsey, Choral Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, The video of the Mostly Mozart Presentation went live on PBS on Friday, February 3rd as part of the network's Live From Lincoln Center program.
ADR session for Amazon Prime TV's "Just Add Magic"
This week, actress Kirrilee Berger came to the studio for an ADR session, on the new Amazon Prime TV Series, Just Add Magic. Kirrilee also does voice-over work for Nick Jr.'s Butterbean.
Just Add Magic is a half-hour children's series about three girls who discover a mysterious cookbook whose recipes are far from ordinary – they're magical. Based on the popular book of the same title by Cindy Callaghan, the series follows the three girls as they attempt to use the recipes to release their grandmother from a powerful curse. The series is available on Amazon Prime TV.
Penguin Random House recording audiobook with Kate Mulgrew
Kate Mulgrew, popularly known for her roles as "Red" in the hit Netflix original series Orange Is The New Black and Janet Elridge on Cheers, was in studio to lend her voice to record the audiobook for The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia, a memoir by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, to be published by Penguin Random House in February. The session was engineered by Sam Palumbo and directed by Paula Parker.
VO recording for CBBC's "Officially Amazing"
Dubway engineer Adrian Thorstensen recently engineered a VO recording for CBBC's television show, Officially Amazing. The session involved recording Al Jackson in NYC, with directors at Crow TV studios in London, via an ISDN connection.
Officially Amazing, now in its sixth season, is a television show airing on CBBC, showcasing "officially amazing" people trying to break world records across the globe. CBBC is a British children's television network (formerly Children's BBC) aimed for older children between the ages 6 and 12.
Watch this awesome trailer for series 3 of Officially Amazing featuring some amazing stunts and unbelievable record attempts! Take part in the Officially Amazing mantis challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_bwVte2-ug Find out more about Officially Amazing here http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/officially-amazing
'Olfactory' selected for Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival
Last year, Dubway had the opportunity to produce the audio — location recording, ADR, foley, SFX, mixing — for Christopher Piazza's short film, Olfactory.
The science fiction drama surrounds an experimental product "Olfactory" that allows users to re-experience memories, starring Kieran Mulcare, Alison Barton and Molly Camp.
Olfactory was recently selected as an official entry to be screened at the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival in February.
Watch a 30-second trailer of the science fiction drama, written and directed by Christopher Piazza, below.
"Olfactory" is a short film written and directed by Christopher Piazza, starring Kieran Mulcare, Alison Barton and Molly Camp.
Christopher Piazza is a director and camera operator in New York City, whose notable works include commercials for Volkswagen, DirecTV, Nike, Pandora Radio, and many other brands. As a camera operator, Piazza has worked alongside Dubway on the Live From The Artists Den series, as well as operating for the Governor's Ball, Coachella, and Bonnaroo festivals for acts like Beyonce and Bruce Springsteen. His work can be found via Panopticon NYC.
Audiobook recording for Simon & Schuster's "The Girl From Venice" Audiobook by Martin Cruz Smith
Last fall, the novel and audiobook for Simon & Schuster's The Girl From Venice by Martin Cruz Smith was published and released. The audiobook was recorded at Dubway Studios last summer by engineers Sam Palumbo and Zac Suskevich, read by Zach Appelman and directed by Tara Thomas.
The Girl From Venice is a novel in the historical fiction genre from the New York Times bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith, set against the dangers of Italy in World War II as a young couple must outrun the Nazis to protect their forbidden love.
Audiobook recording for Simon & Schuster: "Nothing Short of Dying" by Erik Storey
Last summer, the novel and audiobook for Simon & Schuster's Nothing Short of Dying by Erik Storey was published and released for purchase. The audiobook was recorded at Dubway Studios last summer by engineers Sam Palumbo and Stephen Kurpis, read by Jeremy Bobb and directed by Tara Thomas.
Nothing Short of Dying is a novel in the thriller genre that features a drifter with lethal skills, whose mission to rescue his abducted sister pits him against a ruthless meth kingpin and his army of killers.
Simon and Schuster is a major international publishing company founded in 1924, whose titles are published globally, and its products — of bestselling and critically acclaimed fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages and every taste — are distributed in more than 200 countries around the world.