Todd-AO Upgrades Television Mixing Facilities in Burbank and Hollywood Todd-AO, Hollywood’s leading independent post-production sound company, has completed the final phase in its upgrade to its facilities for episodic television. Five television mixing stages at the company’s Todd-AO Burbank facility have been fitted with new Avid ICON controllers. The controllers  complement Avid Pro Tools digital audio workstations and Projection Designs HD projection systems previously [...]

Todd-AO, Soundelux and Modern Music Artists Receive Emmy Awards for Sound Artists from CSS Studios’ Todd-AO, Soundelux and Modern Music won three awards in the 2009-2010 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards at the 62nd Emmy Awards presentation August 21st at the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles. Todd-AO Re-Recording Mixers Michael Minkler and Daniel J. Leahy received an Emmy for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Mini-series or [...]

Todd-AO, Soundelux, Sound One and Modern Music Artists Receive Emmy Nominations for Sound Artists from CSS Studios’ Todd-AO, Soundelux, Sound One and Modern Music facilities have received a total of seven nominations for sound in contention for the 2010 Emmy Awards. Todd-AO Re-Recording Mixers Michael Minkler and Daniel J. Leahy received four nominations for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Mini-series or Movie for HBO’s “The Pacific” (Parts Two, [...]

Soundelux Design Music Group Supplies “Chilling” Sound Design for New Xbox Thriller “Alan Wake” Soundelux Design Music Group indulged its dark side in providing sound design services for “Alan Wake,” Remedy Entertainment’s groundbreaking video game thriller, newly-released by Microsoft Game Studios for xBox 360. Supervising Sound Designer and Academy Award-nominee Alan Rankin headed a team of sound designers who, under the direction of Microsoft Game Studios Audio Director Mark [...]

Variety: Nothing simple about mixing mega-docs As part of their ”Road to the Emmys” coverage, Variety recently turned its attention to the creative arts categories.  Delving into the world of multi-part documentaries, Variety looked to Sound One and Dominick Tavella to explain the unique challenges of these types of projects. Needless to say, Variety came to the right place.  Working out of Manhattan’s [...]

POP Sound Records Stars for Mandela Audio Book of African Tales POP Sound recently hosted recording sessions with Alfre Woodard, Levar Burton, Benjamin Bratt and Ricardo Chavira and other stars for a unique audiobook commemorating the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela. “Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales,” produced by Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA) and Hachette Audio & Digital Media, is a collection of more than [...]

Soundelux Design Music Group Delivers Sound and Music for Lost Planet 2 Soundelux Design Music Group recently provided original music, voiceover recording and sound design for Lost Planet 2, Capcom’s new sequel to its enormously popular third person shooter game. Jamie Christopherson wrote the new main theme and the majority of the score for the game, which was recorded by a 96-piece live orchestra, one of the [...]