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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Brown Bag Films, a multi award-winning Dublin-based animation studio producing a number of high profile features and series for Disney, Nickelodeon, BBC and RTE, have recently completed a major upgrade to their in-house audio facilities. Big Bear Sound were originally commissioned in 2009 to spec and install the first surround-capable mix room in Brown Bag’s […]

Big Bear Sound have recently supplied several new Avid Pro Tools HDX / Apple Mac Pro systems to Windmill Lane Pictures in Dublin, as part of a major upgrade throughout their entire audio post-production facility – incorporating three main studios, a dubbing bay, and several editing rooms. Working on high-end dramas and features, with ever-expanding […]