Dubway records Irish quartet at the Irish Consulate for Panopticon

Dubway and Panopticon NYC engineers piled into the Irish Consulate on Park Ave earlier this month for a spirited session with a guitar, violin, and woodwind quartet. The recording is part of a shoot organized by friends-of-the-studio Panopticon NYC for the consulate.

Dubway engineer Mark Frongillo handled the location recording, which combined elements of live concert recording and location audio for film. With our experience doing music, post, location sound, and everything in between, Dubway engineers are a great asset in hybrid situations like this!

Behind-the-scenes production shot of the beautiful shoot location in the Irish Consulate.

Mark Dancewicz records for RedBrick Filmworks

Mark Dancewicz in the studio. Picture courtesy Andrew Wilson Agency.

Actor Mark Dancewicz (Blue Bloods, Diabolical) joined us in the studio last month to record VO with studio engineer Zach Grappone for an upcoming project with RedBrick Filmworks. Studio engineer Louis Fisher contributed additional engineering for the session. The recordings will be part of the upcoming film project Witnesses, a period-piece-style dramatization of one of the founding myths of the Mormon Church; the release will include both a narrative drama and a two-hour documentary feature.

The film should be set to release later this year, with a theatrical release currently planned for the summer. You can find more news and updates here.

Dubway transfers large collection of Janie Cooke recordings

The industry standard Snackmaster Pro. Never bake food and tapes together!

Over the past month, singer, songwriter, and producer Janie Cooke has been at the studios with Dubway tape transfer specialist Merter Yildirim, transferring her large archival collection of tapes and recordings. Dubway maintains a collection of legacy recording devices including tape machines which help, alongside Merter’s work preserving the tape itself (through restorative processes like baking), to get your recordings safely transferred into a more durable medium.

A poet, songwriter, producer, and performer, Janie Cooke has performed at all the major NYC venues–Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Rockefeller Center, Carnegie Hall, and more–both solo and alongside greats like Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Saunders, and Angela Bofill. Some of Janie’s vocal arranging and performing can be heard on the 1983 Zest track, linked below.

Collections of any size that are worth holding on to, are worth transferring. Give us a call to have us safely transfer your collection!

New trailer for Blackfin & Discovery+ show "Unseamly"

We’re thrilled to announce that UNSEAMLY is now available to stream on Discovery+! The show was mixed by Dubway engineer Nathaniel Reichman, and has joined a slew of Dubway-assisted content that also released with the launch of the platform earlier this year.

You can sign up for the service here to watch the show, or preview a sneak-peak trailer from the producers above.

Producer Calvin Singh in the studio with Peter Dinklage for new series

By Harald Krichel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=131332928

Calvin Singh, one of the bright minds behind award-winning and AFI-affiliated documentary production house Citizen Jones, is hard at work at a new animated project, with a few familiar faces behind the microphones. Last week, we had the pleasure of remotely recording one of the best in the business, Peter Dinklage, who will be voicing a character in this upcoming project. The session was recorded by Dubway engineer Zach Grappone, who, like most of our engineers, spent the last year perfecting his remote recording techniques.

As production season continues and deadlines approach, Dubway remains fully operational as one of the only SAG-AFTRA certified studios in the city. Give us a call for any remote recording needs you have!

Blackfin and CNN partner to produce "Jerusalem" with Dubway post-audio

Jerusalem © Shutterstock.

CNN and non-fiction production house Blackfin are partnering on Jerusalem, a new limited-run series that will cover six important historical events from perhaps the most storied and contested city on the planet. Details about this project are hard to come by, as CNN is premiering this as part of their slate of new programs for 2021, but the producers claim that the series “will use a mix of verite footage and interviews, high-end cinematic scenes, and cutting-edge VFX to bring the ‘City of God’ to life as never before.”

Seasoned TV mixer Nathaniel Reichman engineered the mixes of the show’s six episodes, working (remotely) alongside producers from both Blackfin and the network. Reichman has previously mixed more high-profile projects than we can count, and is sure to deliver an exciting mix to match the material.

Check back for more announcements, including a release date, as they come!

Dubway records with VH1's "Brunch With Tiffany"

Last fall, we had the pleasure of recording with Tiffany Pollard’s new show, Brunch With Tiffany. Episodes typically consist of host Pollard sitting down with a guest–recent episodes have featured Nina Bo’Nina Brown, Momma Dee, Ceaser, and Trixie Mattel, to name a few–and chopping it up over brunch (with mimosas). We won’t spoil any surprises by revealing how the current season deals with the pandemic, or Pollard’s star-studded guest list…you’ll have to check the show out for that!

Dubway engineer Louis Fisher oversaw recording lines, utilizing one of our Orbiter rigs to run the session remotely to be as safe as possible against the pandemic. You can read more about our Orbiters at the link above, or give our office a call to book.

Brunch With Tiffany is streamable on VH1; new episodes stream with an active TV subscription service. Need to get caught up? This playlist has you covered.

Discovery+ streaming service launches with Dubway-assisted programs

Television titan Discovery has just launched their web streaming service, Discovery+, with thousands of hours of programming from Dubway-assisted projects and exclusive new content, including Unseamly, a new investigative nonfiction show produced by Blackfin and mixed by Dubway’s Nathaniel Reichman.

Discovery+ will launch with some of the best content from its’ collection of channels–TLC, ID, Food Network, HGTV, and more–plus programming from some additional networks, including the BBC Natural HIstory Collection and A+E. The new programs partnering with Discovery+ for launch are representative of the networks’s usual areas, with shows in the documentary, true-crime, food, travel, and lifestyle genres. There’s also a large amount of new reality TV in addition to Discovery’s 90-Day Fiancé (and spinoffs), with shows featuring Ludacris, Brendon Urie, Martha Stewart, Amy Schumer, and Kevin Hart.

Unseamly, the Blackfin-produced docu-series, will release on the platform February 12th. We had an excellent time mixing this with our longtime friends at Blackfin, and can’t wait to see it on the new platform!

New York City Council candidate records for the campaign with Dubway

Photo courtesy Isseu Diouf Campbell.

Local politician Abdourahamane Diallo recorded voice over narration for a new piece with us last week, as part of his ongoing campaign for a seat on the NYCC. The short video focused on Diallo’s life story and how it guides his choices as a politician. Diallo is a Guinean-American immigrant who moved to New York eight years ago to attend college; he currently serves as general secretary of the Bronx Borough President’s African Advisory Council and sits on Bronx Community Board 3, in addition to his work with his foundation Guineans Succeeding in America (GSA) .

Dubway engineer Marc Frongillo oversaw the recording, which utilized one of our Orbiter remote recording rigs to ensure complete COVID safety between all participants in the session.

Dubway closes out 2020 with Cyberpunk 2077

High-rise life in Night City, from CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077.

It’s been the roughest year in memory for a lot of folks, and like most of you, we’re thrilled to say: good riddance, 2020.

Even in the worst years there are bright spots, however, and this project was one of them–something that helped remind us that better, different times existed and would exist again. We’ve been patiently waiting for the go-ahead to announce, but now that it’s finally out, we’re happy to share that our studio contributed to last years biggest video game, CD Prokekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077! Throughout the year, Dubway engineer Pascal McGilvray Guard linked with talent supplied and produced by London-based project production studio SIDE to track voice-over and dialogue performance for the richly detailed world of the game’s setting, Night City. Most of these sessions involved remote connections to London or further afield studios, managed technically by McGilvray Guard and the SIDE producers to ensure a smooth recording process within such a complex, large production schedule.

Cyberpunk is available from most major game retailers, with updates continuing to be released. Incidentally, if you find a favorite Cyberpunk glitch that involves dialogue or voice-over lines, get in touch at info@dubway.com–we always love hearing our work in the field!

"A Swim in a Pond in the Rain" with Renee Elise Goldsberry

Actress and all-around talent Renee Elise Goldsberry.

Author George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo) has an excellent new book of literary criticism with a focus on Russian short stories, titled A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. Since the book contains several stories from other famous authors–written in a different voice to the rest of the text–producers at Penguin Random House are having a talented group of performers brought in to read the different works contained within the whole. This is where we come in!

Dubway engineer Zach Grappone linked with all-star performer Renee Elise Goldsberry (of the original cast of Hamilton) for a remote recording of a Tolstoy short story, which is used in Saunders’ book. The session utilized one of our Orbiter remote rigs (remotely-controlled recording packages, with a microphone, capable of being set up in the clients home or office) to get a great sounding read without ever having the engineer and talent in the same physical space.

Thanks as always to our friends at Penguin, especially producer and director Kelly Gildea, for organizing the session, and stay tuned for the audiobook! It should be a must-read (or must-listen) for fans of Saunders’ work, Russian literature, or aspiring short story writers.

Author George Saunders.

Dubway engineer mixes shorts for "OMNIBOAT: A Fast Boat Fantasia"

Early on in 2020, Dubway engineer Keenan DuBois contributed re-record mixing to two sections of a very strange project, Borscht Corp.’s OMNIBOAT: A Fast Boat Fantasia. The project united a disparate crew of loosely Miami-based filmmakers in an exquisite-corpse style enterprise, built entirely around a speedboat that the Borscht team talked their funders into buying for the project. DuBois mixed two of the shorts within the feature-length movie, before a re-record mix at Skywalker Sound glued the project together with a final layer of polish.

OMNIBOAT premiered at this past year’s Sundance Film Festival in the Next category, and may be slated for future release online or as part of a wider distribution. You can read more at the Sundance program page here, or find out more about the project’s production at its IMDB page.

Tanya Selvaratnam records at Dubway for "Assume Nothing"

Author Tanya Selvaratnam, photographed by Beatrice De Gea.

Writer, artist, and producer Tanya Selvaratnam is in the studio this week to record the audiobook for her recent book Assume Nothing, out earlier this year with Harper Collins. The work is, at various times, a memoir, a gripping true crime narrative, and a collection of resources for those experiencing intimate partner violence. Assume Nothing tells the personal story of pain and resilience behind the public scandals of ex-New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman from Selvaratnam’s first-hand perspective.

Selvaratnam is working with Dubway staff engineer Violette Furton and director Cheryl Smith in the recording and editing of the book, and will be performing the reading herself.

Find a copy of the physical book at a local bookstore or any of the major online retailers, and stay tuned for the audiobook coming soon!

Ron Lieber's "The Price You Pay for College" records audiobook at Dubway

Author and New York Times columnist Ron Lieber joined us in the studio over the weekend to record the audiobook release of his newest book, The Price You Pay For College. Lieber has been working with his publisher, Harper Collins, and Dubway staff including engineer Louis Fisher, to complete the project.

The Price You Pay For College is a comprehensive review of what colleges actually cost, aimed at helping families and guardians of the college-aged navigate the maze of sticker prices, financial aid, and abstract values that make a cost-benefit analysis of higher education such a difficult prospect.

See a photo of Fisher and Lieber in the control room post-session below, and find a hardcopy of the book on Lieber’s site or from your favorite retailer. Audiobook available soon!

David James records ADR for Julio Uchôa-produced project, "Diaries of an Exchange Student"

David Sherod James

Actor David Sherod James (The Deuce, The Interview) was in-studio with us recently to record dubbing ADR for the Brazilian film Diaries of an Exchange Student (Diários de Intercâmbio), directed by Bruno Garotti. James worked alongside producer Julio Uchôa (Captain America: Civil War) via Zoom, and coach Sandro Isaack (Mozart In The Jungle) in-studio. Dubway engineer Louis Fisher managed the recording in our Sand control room, one of several of the linked studio rooms in our Main Floor Studios.

We had a great time recording for this project, which shot much of its’ footage in and around the NYC-Hudson Valley regions. So far it’s only been released in Brazil, but stay tuned for possible upcoming international releases!

Richard Kogan's "The Mind and Music of Mozart" edits, mixes at Dubway

Richard Kogan at Rockefeller University.

Work on speaker, pianist, and physician Richard Kogan’s newest lecture-recital on psychology and music has wrapped up at Dubway, and we’re excited to share it here! The piece focuses on Mozart, and was produced by Dr. Kogan’s longtime collaborator, the Grammy-Award winner and ex-Deutsche Grammophon producer Thomas Mowrey.

Producer Thomas Mowrey.

Video editing and mix engineering was done by Dubway engineers Pascal McGilvray-Guard and Keenan DuBois, respectively.

Dr. Kogan’s programs on the psychological origins of musical creativity in the great composers are presented at prestigious venues throughout the world, including the World Economic Forum in Davos and Rockefeller University, in New York.

For more of Dr. Kogan’s lectures, click here.

Sean Ellis's "Eight For Silver" dubs ADR at Dubway

Eight For Silver lead actress Kelly Reilly

Director Sean Ellis’s (Metro Manila, Anthropoid) newest project Eight For Silver is nearing completion as it moves into audio post-production, and recorded ADR at Dubway this week with the film’s star Kelly Reilly (Sherlock Holmes, True Detective). Recording was conducted semi-remotely, with directing coming from Ellis in Europe as Reilly performed in our Manhattan studio facilities. Dubway engineer Louis Fisher led the engineering effort.

Eight For Silver is a historical period-horror piece set in the 19th-century French countryside. It may or may not be a werewolf movie–you’ll have to see it this spring to find out! For those who like to follow the production notes as they push into the final stretch, you can find additional production information at the IMDB link above.

Dubway-assisted horror film "Sleepaway Slasher" premieres on Prime

Didn’t get enough Halloween-energy during the spooky season? Sleepaway Slasher–in which a group of young filmmakers find themselves in a real life horror movie–is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Dubway engineer Rashid Ramkissoon served as the production audio engineer (A1) for the project’s principle shooting, which took place in upstate New York.

Catch a trailer below and stream the full length on Prime, and if you like it, head to @sleepawayslasherfilm on IG and let them know!

Audiobook "The Restructuring" records with author JL Stafford

Author JL Stafford teamed up with Dubway engineer Keenan DuBois last month to record the audiobook edition of Stafford’s recent book of poetry, The Restructuring. The book will be available in this format from Amazon, Audible, and iTunes, and is described by its author as inviting you, “…on a journey to free yourself from your emotional wounds…[to provide] you with the tools to authentically see yourself.” Stafford is a practicing psychotherapist and brings her experience to bear on the subject of the self. The session was tracked and edited at Dubway’s Manhattan facility with producer/director Gordon Rothman running the session from the control room.

Find hardcopies available at major retailers like Amazon, Goodreads, and BookBaby, and listen to the audiobook on the earlier mentioned platforms–coming soon!

Dubway hosts WBUR-produced children's content "Little Frog's Big Voice" for Circle Round

In a series of sessions late last month, Dubway’s Manhattan facilities hosted Boston radio station WBUR’s production team and talent, as they worked on the Circle Round podcast episode “Little Frog’s Big Voice”. The episode was produced by Sheir & Shim co-founders Rebecca Sheir and Eric Shimelonis, and featured some amazing talent including Dyllón Burnside (POSE, pictured second from the right, above) and Alex Brightman (School of Rock, pictured above left), both performing as characters on the show.

Recordings for the show were engineered in a hybrid remote-local workflow, with producers directing remotely and talent onsite. Studio engineers Zach Grappone (second from left, above) and Keenan DuBois (pictured above right) managed the technical sides of each session. We’re proud to be one of the few audio houses in the city with up-to-code safety standards that allow us to safely host our talent in-studio for sessions such as these!

Find the episode here, and if you like what you hear, you can subscribe to the podcast by following the link on the page.