Dipsea chooses Dubway as its production facility - Both East & West Coasts

San Francisco-based audio content creation company Dipsea has selected Dubway as its recording studio of choice, and has begun regular recording sessions with us at both our Manhattan and LA facilities. Dipsea is a company specializing in erotic audio content created with women in mind, and it’s been generating a lot of buzz, with laudits from Elle, Marie Claire, The New Yorker, Refinery29, and Vox, among other news and culture outlets. Dubway’s engineer Pascal McGilvray-Guard has helmed the recording sessions in New York, with Patrick Pak engineering out west.

You can find out more about Dipsea at the link above.

New season of Nickelodeon's Bubble Guppies has arrived!

We’re immensely proud and excited to announce that, as of last week, the fifth season of Nickelodeon’s smash hit series for young children, Bubble Guppies, is on the air! Dubway has long been involved with the show, which records and post-produces its sound at our studios in Manhattan. Work on the show has involved a number of our staff, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention Louis Fisher, Al Houghton, and Nathaniel Reichman, each of whom have played important engineering and producing roles over the many seasons of our involvement with the Bubble Guppies team.

Check out the write up on the new season over at Broadway World, and if you have preschool-aged children (or just love quality children’s entertainment), check the show out at the first link above.

"Tower Of Silence" has continued success at international film festivals.

Palmarium’s feature film Tower Of Silence has had a string of successes at recent international festivals! The film was at the Marche du Film at Cannes, and more recently screened at the Toronto Film Festival. A North American theatrical release is in the works as well, set for this winter.

Tower Of Silence had its audio post-produced at Dubway, and needless to say we’re very excited to see the reception it’s getting. Keep your eyes peeled for a showing near you this winter!

F Murray Abraham records in our main floor studios

Academy Award-winning actor F Murray Abraham (Grand Budapest Hotel, Amadeus, Finding Forrester) stopped into our studio last month to record a series of radio pickups for the upcoming New York Philharmonic season. The session was produced by Mark Barasch for bMedia and was engineered by Dubway engineer Rory O’Hara. Congratulations to all involved – it’s always fun to have a distinguished actor such as Abraham in the studio for the day.

Hear To Slay podcast records new episodes at Dubway

Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan-Cottom’s popular Hear To Slay podcast has returned to Dubway to record new episodes! We always love having the Hear To Slay team in the studio, whether it’s the producers, guests, or the hosts (usually in some combination). These episodes featured a returning guest, journalist / editor / author Elaine Welteroth, as well as author and columnist Rebecca Traister. Sessions were recorded by in-house engineers Rory O’hara and Violette Furton.

Check out the podcast on Luminary at the Hear To Slay link above!

"Baby Won't You Please Come Home" selected by Omeleto

Shortfilm YouTube curation platform Omeleto will be hosting Chris Piazza’s award-winning short Baby Won’t You Please Come Home, and we’re excited to announce the the release date is tomorrow morning (9/9)! The channel is a short film curator that features shorts from top festivals, including Cannes and Sundance. If you weren’t able to catch it at the festivals this year, now’s the chance.

If it’s your first time hearing about the film, or you would like to learn more about it and our involvement in it, here’s our previous write up. We can’t wait to see it next week!

"Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is a short film starring Michelle Hurst ("Orange is the New Black, "Frances Ha") and Melanie Nicholls-King ("The Wire," "Orphan Black"). Written and directed by Christopher Piazza.

Devin Haqq's "The Mark" wraps post-production at Dubway

Devin E. Haqq – actor, director, producer, and writer for both stage and screen – has finalized post-production on his upcoming feature The Mark with Dubway engineer Louis Fisher behind the boards. The final mixes are in stereo and 5.1 for theatrical release, and were completed with Devin, who wrote, produced, and directed the film, in the studio alongside Louis for the final edit.

The Mark is a psychological horror film set in NYC, and stars Catherine Curtin (Stranger Things, Orange is the New Black), Kana Hatakeyama (Orange is the New Black), and Maho Honda (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Maniac). Take a look at this film and some of Devin’s previous projects here, and be sure to see it when it comes out!

Jeremy Sklar's "The Tom Of Your Life" records finishing ADR

Filmmaker, producer, and writer Jeremy Sklar’s upcoming project The Tom Of Your Life recently recorded some of their final ADR with NYC actress Baize Buzan (To Kill A Mockingbird). The recording was directed remotely by Jeremy via Skype, with Baize in the studio alongside Dubway engineer Zac Suskevich. The remote connection was sync’d on site such that Jeremy could direct and comment on Baize’s performance, alongside the production footage of the scene, over a Skype connection – a service we typically provide for Skype-based ADR sessions.

The film doesn’t yet have its final release date, but you can track its process towards theaters and festivals on the IMDB page listed above. Best of luck to Jeremy!

Comedian Nick Vatterott records live set on location with Dubway

We were recently on-location with New York comedian Nick Vatterott (The Comedy Show Show, RVC: The Lone Shopper Network) to record his standup routine at a comedy club in the city in front of a live audience.

The recording was handled by Dubway’s primary location audio mixer/recorder, Zac Suskevich, and will be incorporated with other footage/audio as part of a standup special slated for release later this year.

You can follow Nick’s antics on twitter (link above), and stay tuned for the release of his upcoming special! We’ll be looking forward to seeing how the whole set turns out.

Kathleen Turner records interview with crooked.com

Violette and Kathleen Turner after the interview, in matching New York outfits at our downtown studio lobby.

We were honored to recently host the legendary Kathleen Turner (Romancing The Stone, Peggy Sue Got Married, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and so many more) for a recorded interview with Crooked Media last week. The conversation was recorded locally by Dubway’s Violette Furton, and should be forthcoming on one of Crooked Media’s many podcasts. You’ll have to pay attention to find out which one!

7ate9 Entertainment enters pre-production at Dubway Studios

LA media company 7ate9 Entertainment visited Dubway recently to begin work on a potential project with Netflix. We can’t say anything about the project yet, but we’re excited to host and provide recording services to such an esteemed company!

Some of 7ate9’s most notable projects include Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls Movie,The People Speak, and Revenge Of The Green Dragons. Stay tuned for more information!

PTSD VR training game for therapists records voice over with actor James Penca

Actor James Penca.

NYC actor James Penca stopped into our studios last month to record a set of voice over lines for an interesting upcoming project. The final work will be a VR training game for therapists that helps to teach them how to care for patients managing PTSD. Recording voice over for VR, or any video game, is an always-interesting endeavor, as it requires an extremely dry, clear recording that will be later manipulated in real-time in the game engine for realistic spatial effects. Dubway’s Pascal McGilvray-Guard ran the control room on this recording. We’re hopeful that this project can help coach therapists to better treat those struggling with PTSD!

Lion TV's "Lies That Bind" shoots on-location with Dubway

Dubway’s location sound services team recently got the chance to head to Lion TV’s NYC studio to record on-set interviews for their crime recreation TV series Lies That Bind, on Investigation Discovery. Dubway’s leading location sound engineer Zac Suskevich was on-set to handle the recording, which took place in and around their downtown offices in Manhattan.

We’re honored to work closely with Lion TV on a number of shows and look forward to the next one! You can catch their work on Investigation Discovery’s website or TV channel.

Dubway post-produces sound for upcoming film "Mott Haven"

Mott Haven, an upcoming film starring Chuck Zito (Sons of Anarchy), Robert Davi (Die Hard, License To Kill), and Deborah Green (The Post), has been at Dubway for the past few months, hard at work on the full audio post-production of the feature film.

Under the post-production supervision of Dubway’s Al Houghton, the sound design, ambience backfill, and dialogue editing has been tackled by a team of in-house engineers, with Mike Mazzotta handling video editing and color grade by Nicole Benoit. Nathaniel Reichman is scheduled to do the final re-record mixing before the film goes out.

Mott Haven is produced by Park Avenue to Park Bench, directed by Michael Domino, and co-written by both Michael Domino and Robert Mladinich. There’s no release date scheduled yet, but the film is in the final push of post-production, and should be coming soon!

Salman Rushdie transfers 78 record, "Anna Livia Plurabelle"

James Joyce

Salman Rushdie

Writer and novelist Salman Rushdie sent us an interesting project recently in the form of an old 78RPM record of 20th century Irish author James Joyce reading “Anna Livia Plurabelle”, an excerpt of what would later become the famously experimental and tricky novel Finnegan’s Wake.

78s have a long and interesting history that can impact how they get transferred, and this 78, while in pristine condition, was no exception. Dubway’s Louis Fisher managed the conversion to digital, which took several passes, and still “had no idea what [Joyce] was saying on the recording”.

Go pick up a copy of Finnegan’s Wake at your local library to see what Louis is talking about, and if you have old shellac discs lying around you’d like to listen to without degrading the material, give us a call.

Teddy Atlas records and edits audiobook of "Atlas" at Dubway

Legendary boxing trainer Teddy Atlas has been hard at work with a dedicated crew of Dubway engineers, lead by Louis Fisher, on an audiobook version of his autobiography Atlas: From The Streets To The Ring: A Son’s Struggle To Become A Man.

The voiceover for the audiobook is being recorded personally by Atlas, and the editing is being done in-house by the Dubway team. The audiobook doesn’t have a release date yet, but the hardcopy was published in 2006 and is widely available online from book resellers. We look forward to hearing the finished version of this remarkable story!

Louis Fisher, center left, with boxing trainer Teddy Atlas, center right.

Crossover Media records radio interviews with Anthony McGill, Anna Shelest

LEFT: Pascal McGilvray-Guard, Dubway’s engineer for both of the sessions, with clarinetist Anthony McGill. ABOVE: Pianist Anna Shelest in the booth.

Crossover Media, a classical music media and consulting company, hosted another two rounds of high profile interviews with the supremely gifted Anthony McGill (principal clarinet, NY Philharmonic) and Anna Shelest (piano, soloist with many top symphony orchestras worldwide). Dubway’s Pascal McGilvray-Guard took the helm on these records, in which Dubway calls into radio stations on a tight schedule and records the phone call with the radio host via a phone patch, with the talent locally in our New York studios. It’s an honor to have these virtuosos in the studio, and we hope to host them again soon.

Matt Higgins' "Hang In There" accepted to Oregon Film Festival

Matt Higgins’ film Hang In There has been accepted as an official selection at the Oregon Cinema Arts Film Festival! Dubway handled all the post-production sound for this project, and are thrilled to see it getting accepted into festivals. Congratulations, Matt!

If you’re in Portland on August, 10th, stop by and check it out. Tickets are free and can be registered for here.

Block & Lot shoots video podcast in the Mezzanine

If you follow us on Instagram (@dubwaystudios), you know we love working with Brian Meier’s podcast, Block & Lot. Brian recently sat down in the Mezzanine studio with our engineer Pascal McGilvray-Guard for a recording of the show, featuring a video team for a multimedia-style podcast. In additional to sounding good, our live room enjoys the luxury of looking good too – helpful for any video project you may need a flexible space for.

Episodes are available on all major podcasting platforms, and congrats to the team on another successful recording.

Brian, right, and a guest in our Mezzanine studio.

New podcast from Jigsaw Productions

Major production house Jigsaw Productions has been working on a new podcast with Dubway engineer Violette Furton. The podcast is still in production but it promises to be extremely interesting work of the caliber of the rest of Jigsaw’s roster (recent productions include The Inventor; Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat; and The Looming Tower, among many others).

The show is being executive produced by Ellen Horne (of Radiolab fame) and includes interviews with major media figures… we can’t say much other than that, but we’re excited for the drop. Stay tuned!