Congratulations to composer Stephen McKeon on winning the 2015 IFTA Award for Best Original Score, for John Boorman’s latest film, “Queen and Country”.  Queen and Country is a 2014 British drama film directed by John Boorman.  It was also selected to be screened as part of the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.  The film is a sequel to Boorman’s 1987 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Introducing the 633:  Compact Six Input Mixer with 10-Track Recorder   Sound Devices introduces the 633, a six-input mixer with integrated 10-track recorder. It includes Sound Devices’ proprietary PowerSafe technology and a unique four-way power supply for maximum operational runtime. As the next must-have production tool, the 633 has a full complement of I/O designed […]

Big Bear Sound recently supplied the live audio playback system for “Heartbeat of Home”, the new music and dance spectacular from the producers of Riverdance. Featuring the vibrant, dynamic components of traditional Irish, Latin and Afro-Cuban music and dance, the show features a world-class cast of thirty-eight, including a ten-piece band, creating a new and […]

  Launching at IBC Amsterdam next week: Avid’s revolutionary new S6 mixing solution, with a revolutionary new modular design!  If you are attending IBC and would like to arrange a demo of the S6, please contact Michael at Big Bear Sound.  

New affordable active monitors from Genelec, for home and project studios, song-writing and DJ’s. Genelec have launched the new M Series of bi-amplified, active monitors – high-performance, environmentally sustainable active monitors designed with the project studio in mind. The purpose of M Series is to create a new monitor offering using new technologies related to […]

Sound designer James Currie has been using a DPA 5100 Mobile Surround microphone to capture the audio for a new feature film entitled Charlie’s Country, which was shot on location in East Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Directed by Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer and produced by Nils Erik Nielsen and Peter […]

Bubblebee Industries is a new manufacturer from Denmark, producing the world’s best “windbubbles” for lavalier microphones.  Unlike studio production, where the environment is completely controlled, field production has many other factors to consider – and wind is a major issue.  Bubblebee Industries offer an optimised “windbubble” design for miniature microphones that is good looking, easy […]

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 […]