Sound One: New York - Crafting Sound for the Movies

The New York Section of the Audio Engineering Society invites all folks who are actively involved in professional audio to join us for a most informative evening.  

Students are especially welcome.

The event is free of charge.

Meet and Greet 6:30 P.M.

Presentation 7:00 P.M. 

 “Sound One:New York - Crafting Sound for the Movies"

Host:  Paul Yurt, Systems Engineer, Sound One
Dominick Tavella, Mixer, Sound One

Sound One, in heart of the theater district of New York, is an award-winning and globally-recognized facility that has been involved in a multitude of feature and documentary films over many decades. Dominick Tavella and Paul Yurt will explain and demonstrate the technology and techniques for editing and mixing sound for movies and television.

Creating audio for films is a multi-stage multi-team process.  The discussion will include an explanation of the technology, tools and techniques of feature film sound post production. The group will be shown how Sound One’s team generates and shapes sounds.

Sound One has on premises re-recording and ADR studios, a foley studio and an extensive computing facility. Visitors will get to listen in the actual rooms where a very large number of well-known movies have been mixed. The process of mixing on a AMS/NEVE console will be explored. Questions will be a major part of the evening.  Production elements (clips) will be played through Sound One’s re-recording stage systems.

Paul Yurt is a systems engineer at Sound One who has worked at many of the top recording studios throughout the U.S. and Europe. In this presentation Paul will explain the technology behind the making of the movies. From mono to stereo to Dolby Digital to 7.1 and uncompressed digital, the various audio formats and the give and take of compression to achieve some of these formats will be explored. In addition, HD picture formats and the compression of picture for post production and distribution will be discussed.

Dominick Tavella, who has worked at many of New York’s famous sound facilities, will share his expertise about mixing. He joined Sound One in 1988, where he built his reputation among such clients as Paul Schrader, Jim Jarmusch, D.A. Pennebaker, Ric Burns, and Ken Burns. Dom co ntinues to make his mark on avant-garde and documentary projects, and recently led to his work with Michael Minkler on “Chicago”, for which they won an Academy Award® in 2003. In addition, he has been nominated four times for Emmy® Awards in the Best Sound category, including the documentaries "Jazz" and "New York".

Limited to 30 persons.You must register for admittance. 
Advance registration is at http://aesnysoundonedec14.eventbrite.com between December 1^st and 4^th.