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Summer 2016

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42 S U M M E R 2 0 1 6 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y mixed at Smart Post West in West LA. Ken has recently completed software/ hardware update to "Th' Meat Locker Studio," now an HDX2 studio, with 40 fader Icon, updated HD video satellite. The 5.1–7.1 "plug and play" transla- tion to larger rooms and "Lot" stages is excellent!! Brendan Beebe CAS, Dennis Fuller, and Sean Byrnes have just finished Big Little Lies for HBO and loaded right into American Horror Story 6 for FX. Very thankful for the hard work of the crew! Karol Urban CAS MPSE, after finish- ing up Season 12 of Grey's Anatomy and Season 2 of Kingdom, mixed a Mar Vista suspense thriller called Open End. She is now mid-season on Season 2 of Edge of Alaska, as well as supervising dialogue and mixing the Lionsgate feature Cookoff. During August, Fred Ginsburg CAS presented two workshops on sound at the annual conference of the University Film & Video Association that was held this year in Las Vegas, Nevada. One workshop focused on production sound, and anoth- er one introduced professors from film schools across the USA to iZotope RX5. Co-presenting was CAS Board member David Bondelevitch MPSE. Post sound mixer Jamie Scarpuzza CAS and boom op Ron Ayres are working on Season 1's Detroiters show for Comedy Central. Michael Keller CAS and Gary Rizzo CAS just finished mixing Suicide Squad at Warner Bros. Stage 9. Jay Patterson CAS, along with Ken Strain booming, and Kris Manning as utility/2nd boom, started Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here in mid-July. James Ridgley CAS got busy with two features. Both with dubious genre titles and actors he has been told not to men- tion. He also worked on quite a few com- mercial/industrial side projects, includ- ing some Kardashian/Jenner (Oops!!) for Epix … Soon they will begin Dirty Dancing for Lionsgate, and hopefully, spend a little quality time outside the studio on a beach with a beverage! At Smart Post Sound, Stage 5, Sherry Klein CAS and Lisle Engle CAS are mixing Falling Water for USA ... and get- ting ready to begin mixing Bull for CBS for this fall! Sherry also just completed with Mark Server, Queen of the South for USA at Larson Studios. George A. Flores CAS began 2016 with the back nine episodes of Supergirl with boom operator Colin Campbell and split utility duties from Alexis Schafer and Iris von Hase. Thanks to Ed Moskowitz CAS, Stephan von Hase CAS, Jon Ailetcher CAS, and Michael Piotrowski for mixing the double-up epi- sodes. Shout-outs should also go to Steve Evans, Eli Moskowitz, Nicole Zwiren, Kraig Kishi, Kelly Hallmark, Ethan Biggers, Owen Taylor, Nick Carbone, and Daniel Greenwald for their help as well. Right on the heels of Supergirl was a pilot for ABC/Fox with boom operator Alexander Burstein and sound utility Alexis Schafer. In April, boom operator Shawn Morse, boom/utility/ playback Daniel Quintana, and utilities Iris von Hase & Alexis Schafer joined George for Season 12 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. With multiple cameras, waterslide work, and earwig playback plus live vocals, they did a great job once again. Special thanks to mixer Chris Kellet for always rocking on the Philly portion of the season. Ken S. Polk CAS has recently finished work on two theatrical releases due out next month: Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary, a Gay Dillingham/Robert Redford feature documentary, and The Land, a Steven Caple/Nas project for IFC. The sound design and mix of Dying to Know was done exclusively at Ken's stu- dio, Th' Meat Locker, while The Land was a project through Smart Post Sound/Joe Melody and Jan Bezouska/White Light Audio, with pre-dubs done at Th' Meat Locker, and the final being the first film NBC Universal Post is buzzing: "Boldly going where no mix has gone before" over on the Hitchcock Stage, mix team Jon Taylor CAS and Frank Montaño finished the final mix for Star Trek Beyond for director Justin Lin, producer JJ Abrams, and Bad Robot/Paramount Pictures. It's Almost Christmas for Mix Stage 6 which just wrapped the final mix for feature direc- tor David E. Talbert with mixers Andy Koyama and Wayne Lemmer, and super- vising sound editor Derek Vanderhorst. Over on Mix Stage 5, Peter Nusbaum CAS and Whitney Purple have the usual suspects in mixing Blackish, The Mindy Project, Just Add Magic, and Best Friends Whenever. This fall, the team will also mix a new comedy for NBC called Great News. In Studio A, mixers John Cook CAS and Bill Freesh CAS have their hands full with the hit show Veep. The team is also about to start its second season of the hit series Mr. Robot for the USA network. In Studio B, mix team Nello Torri CAS and Alan Decker CAS are currently working on Season 3 of Tyrant for FX networks and Season 1 of Emerald City for NBC. Starting in July, the team mixes Shots Fired for Fox and Taken for NBC, and in the fall, the team will mix Season 6 of Homeland and Grimm for NBC and Showtime, Outlander for Starz, and Patriot Season 1 for Amazon. In Colorado, production mixer Dave Schaaf CAS and boom op Jesse Yadon recently worked on Gnaw, starring Penelope Mitchell and Kyle Gass. They are also slated to start on Amateur. Todd Grace CAS and Ed Carr CAS continue to keep Dub 2 at Warner Bros. humming. Having completed the first season of Limitless for CBS, year three of Sleepy Hollow for FOX, Season 6 of Shameless for Showtime, and the first season of Damien for A&E, they began the second season of Casual for Hulu, the fourth season of Devious Maids for Lifetime, and the first season of Graves

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