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Hello all! Long time no blog. It's been a very exciting couple of weeks here. I had the chance to mix 3 live broadcast TV shows over Father's Day weekend. They were live Father's Day special episodes of the Sprout "Sharing Show". We took live calls and emails from the kids all afternoon. It was a lot of fun. It's kind of like how they portray the helm of a sumbarine, lots of call and response commands in the Control Room. "Cue the key, "Cueing the key". "Deko Audio down", Deko Audio down" and so on. I was very nervous the night before but after a few minutes the nerves wore off and I started to really enjoy the experience. On a technical note, is Mackie kidding with the faders on the 1604. I haven't used one since the mid-90s. Boy are those faders awful. So nice to have the D-Command in my room.

I'm also finishing up mxing season 2 of the Let's Go Show for Sprout. It's live action environments this season, as opposed to the green screened CGI backgrounds we used last year. It looks really good, and Bruce Liteki did a bang up job recording the audio. It's a pleasure to mix well recorded talent.

In other news, "Happy Birthday Harris Malden", a film I recently mixed for Philly production team Sweaty Robot, was premiered at the CineVegas film festival in Las Vegas last weekend. See www.sweatyrobot.com to watch some of their shorts and read the reviews. Sounds like they had a blast in Vegas and the film was very well received. I may have mentioned this below but a lot of it was shot on Franklin St in South Philly, just a few blocks away from our house. It was a lot of fun gathering ambiences and foley sounds from around the neighborhood and having them fit in so easily. 

So there are some serious changes in the works here at my website. I'll be updating the look and adding some features in the next couple of days. All this co-incides with the removal of the Made on Mac banner I used to have over there. Yup, that's right, we're getting into our PCs now. My Mac will always be my platform at Work, but for web stuff and day to day computing, we just can't afford to keep up with Apple's prices. I still think they are clearly superior devices, but we're getting an awful lot of bang out of our very used PCs (read:killer workstation class computers from a few years ago), and will the prices of things what they are today, we're glad to be saving the dimes. Also in the works is changing some things around to be easier to view in Internet Explorer. But, for those of you in Internet Explorer, please please please please go to Firefox.com or Opera.com and make the switch to those browsers. The web is so much faster and  smoother in a better browser. They copy all your user data from IE so nothing will be lost and you can always switch back, but please, for me, go give one of those a try. Thank me later.