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32 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – Spring 2025 from the guitars, the keyboard, and put two mics behind the Leslie speaker, and Jon sang into a Shure SM58. We also put a DPA 5100, a 5.1 surround mic up in the rafters of our set, Studio 8H, to get more of a wide ambient sound of the entire space, to give more options for post-production. The other interesting part of the story is that Jason said, "I want you to record the score of the movie on set." "Well, we'll wrap early on the week that Jon Batiste and his band is here." We gave them time to set up and then we came back to record. We had a headphone splitter, so everybody had on headphones in case anything changed. Jon Batiste would give us beats per minute to give them a click and then they would listen and then they would all start playing in time. Jason and his editor would come in and say, "Hey, okay, here's a scene that we've already cut together. What do you think?" Jon would watch with his band and then Jon would give us a beat, let's say 90 BPM. Then he'd just start pointing and he'd give them a rhythm or something or a note like here's, pa pa para pa, and they would do that. I had Noah Hubbell come in. Noah is a Local 695 member, as well a music editor. He ran Pro Tools so that everything was covered and sounded good. The whole work process was different for everybody. Noah has recorded scores. He was a huge help because it's a lot to wrangle. Jason would ask, "Let me hear that piece real quick," or the next day, "Can you give me a clip of that?" When we were back shooting, Noah would be there with his headphones on preparing some downmixes and some edits and give them to Jason and the editors so they could cut picture to it. My team and I, we came up with a good system of laying out the tracks, and where they're going to live. It just kind of flowed, and because the script was so good, it flowed nice. When the script is well written, the dialog flows and it all makes sense, and your mix is easy. The entire experience was a lot of fun. The A20-Nexus placed high above the set The Ilamas, ready to be petted and admired