Galway City of Film, in association with Screen Training Ireland, Screenscene/Ardmore Sound, Gréasán na Meán, Big Bear Sound & Galmac, were delighted to welcome editor and sound designer, Walter Murch to Galway, on Saturday May 23rd 2015. Walter, who has won Oscars for both Editing and Sound Design, took part in an in-depth interview about […]

To celebrate both the 10-year anniversary of Genelec’s hugely successful 8000-series monitor speakers, and Big Bear Sound’s 10 years as their Irish distributor, we are delighted to offer trade-in deals for a limited time, from any active or passive studio monitor speakers to a new pair of Genelec 8010A, 8020C, 8030B, 8040B or 8050B models. […]

Big Bear Sound will soon be hosting DPA Microphones training events for retailers, installers and system integrators. These sessions will focus on: musical instruments and acoustics with microphones microphone designs and technologies: condenser vs dynamic large-diaphragm vs small-diaphragm transformer vs transformerless output omnidirectional vs directional /cardioid microphones specs and what they mean selecting the correct […]

Big Bear Sound will soon be hosting Genelec training events for retailers, installers and system integrators.   Preview: These sessions will focus on: key Genelec technologies selecting the correct model of speaker and/or subwoofer correct speaker placement for stereo and surround speaker mounting options and accessories acoustical calibration (room response controls) introduction to Genelec’s Smart […]

The Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny was happy to wear a DPA d:fine™ 4088 Headset Microphone when he opened the fourth Dublin Web Summit at the RDS last month. DPA microphones played a vital role at Dublin’s fourth Web Summit at the RDS by ensuring that key speakers could be clearly heard, despite high levels of […]

The most powerful digital audio workstation just got more powerful. With an all-new, ultra-efficient audio engine, 64-bit performance, and groundbreaking capabilities, Pro Tools 11 enables you to take on the most complex and demanding music and audio post productions with ease, so you can focus on sounding your best. Get exponentially more processing power than […]

Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec has won Resolution magazine’s 2012 Award  for Best Plug-In. The revolutionary Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec plug-in enables the auditioning, encoding and decoding of audio with codecs such as mp3 and AAC, making it possible to produce online-ready mixes in real time! For the first time, the Pro-Codec enables engineers to use Apple’s iTunes […]

DPA Microphones’ Reference Standard series has won Resolution magazine’s 2012 Award for Best Microphone.  “Re-inventing and refreshing what some would regard as classic microphones was always going to be a challenge but I think that DPA has managed this extremely capably.” DPA Microphones are distributed exclusively in Ireland by Big Bear Sound.  The Reference Standard […]

Pro Tools 2018 – New Productivity-Boosting Features!   Collaborate in the cloud—just added Imagine being able to work on a session with friends, bandmates, colleagues, or even your favorite artist, producer, editor, or voice actor—no matter where they are, anywhere in the world. You can with Avid Cloud Collaboration for Pro Tools, a groundbreaking new […]