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44 CINEMONTAGE / MAY-JUN 14 Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, ID Forever Part I), lists McDSP Channel G compressor/EQ, McDSP MC303 and MC404 compressors, McDSP NF575 noise filter, Sony Oxford EQ/ filter plus Avid Revibe2 plug-ins with Pro Tools and Apple Logic workstations. "All of these have nice, easy layouts — except in the last version, McDSP changed the layout of the MC Series, which I'm not happy about; it was perfect before," he opines. "I use the MC303 and MC404 during design work and mastering of sound effects I've recorded. I could write an entire page of how much I love and use these two plug-ins!" Ottosson works differently than most re- recording mixers, "because I'm in a constant pre- dub/final mixing mode from just two-to-three days into a project, when my editorial crew comes on," he adds. "I start to pre-dub uncut dialogue tracks, and that's how I use the rest of the plug-ins. I really like Channel G on dialogue tracks, since it manages peaks that otherwise I'd have to do on the faders. I use the NF575 plug-in on every dialogue track; it's a brutal and tight/narrow notch filter that I can dig down -40 dB without sacrificing anything but the noise I'm going for. I also use Sony Oxford EQ on all my dialogue; it's very forgiving and you really have to abuse it to 'over EQ.' Revibe is the only reverb I use; it has so many variables and features that are easy to get to and so user-friendly." Sound editor/designer Shannon Mills (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Lone Ranger, Avatar) with Sony Pictures Studios lists Serato Pitch 'n Time Pro, Waves Mondo Mod, Digidesign Structure, SoundToys Echoboy and SoundToys PhaseMistress plug-ins with Pro Tools using an Artist Mix controller. "All of the plug-in GUIs are fine; I just wish they were all more easily controllable from a surface." Sound designer/supervising sound editor Mark Mangini, MPSE (Transcendence, Metallica Through the Never, Star Trek), from Formosa Group lists Audio Ease Speakerphone, Audio Ease Altiverb 7, iZotope RX3, Serato Pitch n' Time and reFuse Lowender "for both editorial and mix work. I'm most comfortable on an Avid ICON mix surface with Pro Tools as my DAW. I have a 24-fader ICON D-Control in my studio, and an HDX-2 to design and cut on. My edit template is my mix template; therefore I can mix while I edit, and vice versa, using the same tools." f Left, top: McDSP Channel G. Left, center: McDSP MC303. Left, bottom: McDSP NFS575. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 42 CineMontage_May-Jun_14-3.indd 44 4/15/14 2:57 PM