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30 W I N T E R 2 0 1 7 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y here in Austin—so it worked out well and convinced me to do additional episodics. Of course, I do love working on movies and that's why I'm heading up to Georgia to work on the next Avengers. How about some lighter questions? I've read that you're quite the bowler. How's your game these days? I think I peaked a couple years ago before I had my knees replaced. But I will be bringing my bowling ball up to Atlanta with me! Do you remember when you first transitioned from Nagra to DAT and then to hard disk? First, I went from the Stephens one-inch 8-track to an Otari half-inch 8-track with dbx noise reduction for the iso's and I'd be sending my mix to the Nagra. Then, I moved over to the Tascam DA88 and DA98 for iso's and eventually began sending the mix to both the Nagra and the Sony D10 DAT, which didn't have timecode. Jeff Wexler CAS and I were the two guys doing this. Once I felt confident with the DAT, I stopped using the Nagra—which was pretty scary (laughs)! Fostex came out with the timecode DAT and I used that, too. Once the Zaxcom Deva came along, it seemed more reliable and was smaller, so I went that way. It was great speaking with you, John. Would you like to close out the article with any thanks? I'd like to show my deep appreciation to David Fluhr CAS, Rick Kline, Greg King, Joel Shryack, Tom Hammond, Tom Johnson, Michael Semanick, Christopher Scarabosio, Scott Millan CAS, Wylie Stateman, Kevin O'Connell CAS, Richard Portman CAS, and Bob Beemer CAS—to list only a few of the amazing re-recording mixers who made me and my team sound so good, saving my bacon a lot. Thanks to all of you who touched my career in such a positive way. And also to the amazing ADR team who made a masterpiece from very difficult dialogue tracks on Memoirs of a Geisha. I can never say enough about those directors who trusted me and my team to give them the best we could—then gave us the ultimate thanks by hiring us again. Tom Hanks, John Lee Hancock, Peyton Reed, Oliver Stone, Larry Kasdan and Jake Kasdan, Rick Linklater, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Mamet, Robert Rodriguez, Sam Mendes and, of course, the late and great Robert Altman. You all made my career!!! And, of course, thanks to all the crews I have had the joy of working with: the utility folks, the boom ops but, especially, to two extraordinary boom men. Seventeen years with the wonderful Joel Shryack, now a great post supervisor. And for the last 22 years, my amazing and dear friend, David Roberts. I owe so much of my success to these talented people and I don't think enough praise can be given them. I love you all!! • D������, I��. 25209 Avenue Tibbitts Valencia, CA 91355 Phone (661) 607‐0206 Fax (661) 257‐2236 www.denecke.com Email: info@denecke.com D������, I��. Makers of the original SyncBox ® Introduces the SB‐4! More features and higher stability than before.