Worked on a live stream for Texas Health for the past 2 days.  The biggest challenge was finding multiple clean wireless channels.  The RF environment was quite busy in that part of the city.

I finally got to work on a zombie movie!  This one had Christmas zombies!

​Had the pleasure of working with the Northern Texas PGA again this year. I strapped a PA system to the back of a golf cart and provided sound reinforcement for a couple sports commentators during a competition through 9 holes of golf.

Each hole required quickly finding a good position for my cart that allowed our audience to hear, and was also close enough to talent to receive their microphone signals. This had to be done 3 times at the beginning, middle, and end of all 9 holes without falling behind.

I didn't know much about acupuncture before providing a sound system for this three day seminar.  I still not sure I understand it, but they sure sounded good!

Virtual production studios present new challenges for production sound mixers by creating reverberant spaces with their hard flat screens.  Also, sync boxes with timecode AND genlock outputs may be making a comeback as these studios grapple with artifacting caused by camera sensors and screen refresh rates.
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I was honored to be invited again to an FC Dallas game to help with sound reinforcement.  This time with a half-time show mariachi band!

I've been enjoying using CAD programs and 3D printers to fabricate useful parts.  I plan on making this a bigger part of my professional life.  Here's a photo of the evolution of this product from it's last iteration as I print and test prototypes:

Today's shoot was in a beautiful Montana train yard.  Recording clean dialog here was a challenge.  One of the representatives from the rail company was kind enough to shut down the closest engine which reduced some of the noise.  I discovered that most of the noise came from the SIDES of the closest engines.  I worked with the team and we decided to go with a good looking shot from the front of the train, which put the loudest noise BEHIND our talent and their body provided a barrier between the noise and the microphone on their chest.  The boom still sounded the best, but the lav on their chest gave us the best dialog to noise ratio.