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86 S P R I N G 2 0 2 0 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y B E E N T H E R E D O N E T H A T I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy out there! Devendra Cleary CAS here! Like every other production, Schooled (ABC) shut down abruptly due to COVID-19 concerns. We had one episode left to make for Season 2, but Sony decided to do the right thing and play it safe. I'd like to thank my crew, Chris "Catfish" Walmer and Rachel Schroeder, for a job well done this season. Twenty-one episodes in the can! Also, thank you to the second unit crew who came in; Chantilly Hensley, Anna Mayer, and Spencer Flynn. After we abruptly wrapped, I put my gear in my office and walked away. I didn't leave the house for three weeks! Then, after mastering the great war of grocery shopping and honing our cooking skills, I decided to add to my routine a couple of visits to my solitary office per week to finish-out the fresh build of my Cantar X3 cart. It has been a joy to see it come together at a nice, slow pace. It's been heartbreaking to feel the world's suffering. I pray for those fighting this virus and have nothing but admiration for first responders, medical professionals, and essential workers. I hope we can all come out of this stronger and better. Please stay safe everyone! And let's safely get back to work when we can! From James Ridgley CAS: Hello everyone. Seems I had a little luck in finishing a four-week feature film, The Inheritance, before this whole thing came to our shores. Had fantastic boom ops in Mick Davies and Cyrus Wymer. Now, laying low until the Hollywood production machine starts up again. Hope all is reasonably well. Amanda Beggs CAS made it back relatively unscathed from mixing a Netflix feature called Finding Ohana, which shot in Hawaii, Thailand, and New York City at the end of 2019. Huge thanks to the many sound people across the world who made up the crew: Mitchell Gebhard, Nohealani NihipaliDay, Frank Barlow, Katika Tubtim, Thranravipa Pararoch, Michael Barosky, Frank Graziadei, and Jerry Yuen. From beaches to caves to jungles to more caves to waterfalls to the Brooklyn Bridge … this was an undertaking of epic proportions! Amanda then jumped onto a pilot for Showtime called Rita with CAS Associate Ben Greaves, Yohannes Skoda, and Jamie Gambell CAS and wrapped that up right before the whole world shut down. She's itching to get back to work just like the rest of us! Philip Perkins CAS mixed the indie feature film Like Reply Share and the doc The Rogers. He is currently working from home, mixing the feature doc Irmi. Be safe! From Andy Wiskes CAS… Been there, almost done that! OK, so since I can't be racing, and the 240Z is good, it's time to look at the studio "to do" list! Perfect time to address the following engineering tasks: (1) Rebuild power supply in Ampex 440B; (2) Bring the new Studer A80 online; (3) Replace caps in original KFOG Langevin mixer console power supply—so the pirate FM station can do what it does; (4) Clean and refurb the four U87's sitting on bench—don't ask; (5) Transfer from PCM-F1 format all original recordings to hard disk. Anyone know the phase and channel offset timing? These are original Pavarotti recordings, enough said; (6) Transfer all the DA88 24-track masters to hard disk. Oh yeah, fun, fun, fun! (7) Transfer all the Hi8 video documentation recordings from all over the world to video. This is harder than you think! (8) Cross one off the list—At least, all the quarter-inch has already been baked! So, this is not a "Been There Done That,"—it's a "Been There, Now I Gotta Do That" post! (See photo in "The Lighter Side" section.) From CAS Associate Kurtis Ewing: I just want to take a minute to update and praise our sound community. I have been watching and reading posts. It has been great to see the amount of Zoom meet-ups and FaceTime calls keeping people connected. I have participated in some and can say it makes a huge difference. We need each other and should stay connected! Looking forward to getting back at it as soon as it is healthy to do so. Appreciate everyone! We will get through this! Stephen Tibbo CAS mixed the series finale of Modern Family, along with Srdjan Popovic, CAS Associate William Munroe, and Dan Lipe. Stephen also recently completed the final mix on The Hyperions, along with Bob Edmondson CAS. David Bondelevitch CAS MPSE recently completed mixing the documentary Fresh Tracks, about the man who developed specialty skis for paraplegics coming back from WWII. It is currently doing the festival circuit. Stay healthy! Steve Weiss CAS was mixing All Rise on CBS Mondays until the pandemic shut it down with one-and-a-half episodes remaining in the order. Fingers crossed for another season with Stacey Washer on boom and Dennis Carlin utility. From Erik Magnus CAS: The last 18 months have been funny. A Tiffany Haddish feature film, Like a Boss for Paramount Pictures, started this comedy run with boom operator Patrick M. Wylie and utility sound Arielle Engle. After the holidays, Season 2 of Netflix's dark comedy satire episodic series Insatiable took us into the summer. Next up was the long-in-development Eddie Murphy sequel to Coming to America, also for Paramount Pictures. Switching genres in the new year, we started work on a superhero-themed action film from MGM Studios. Gavin Fernandes CAS mixed dia/music for Coffee & Kareem, released on Netflix to a captive audience. It was a privilege to mix with Wayne Lemmer, sound designer/FX mixer extraordinaire. On the docket, but paused, Bold Type (NBC) and Blood & Treasure (CBS). Stay safe! Hug your loved ones. Devin Golub CAS had a great year mixing Season 4 of American Housewife for ABC. Twenty half-hour episodes! (We still have a few days on the finale to shoot.) The whole cast and crew became like one big family over the course of the season. Can't say there