Lucky Dog Audio Post

Tracy Byrd stopped by the studio today to record a voice over for a new :30 Radio. Here's Tracy with little buddy Scott Minor.

Our recent work for CJRW and the Arkansas State Police Highway Safety Office features the voice of a GPS unit that starts giving it's driver a little bit more than simple driving directions. This spot stars Kelly Klemonlin as the voice of the GPS, Tracy Thibodeaux as the announcer, and the sounds of a Garmin GPS.

Listen to GPS :30 (Garmin version)

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A previous version of the spot, mentioned here and here, was mixed with the sounds of a Magellan GPS unit.

Listen to GPS :30 (Magellan version)

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In yet another attempt to squeeze entertainment from our celebrated Sleeve Face gallery, here's some select tracks that we've faithfully transfered from the vinyl discs that we found hiding within the cardboard, record sleeves that we held in front of our faces.

Put more simply, here's the music from the Sleeve Faces:

Lucky Dog Muxtape*

* This mix covers page one of our gallery - Arto Lindsay to Neil Young.

Really it's not a bad mix. There' some folk music and some rock and some folk rock. As far as music genres go, there's something for everyone, unless you are looking for:

alt-country, ambient, blues, britpop, celtic, chill, classical, country, darkwave, doom metal, down tempo, drone, drum and bass, dub, dubstep, electronica, emo, folk metal, funk, garage, goth, gothic metal, grindcore, grunge, hard rock, hardcore, heavy metal, hip hop, house, idm, indie, indie pop, indie rock, industrial, j-pop, j-rock, japanoise, jazz, jazz-metal, metal, metalcore, minimal, new age, nu metal, pop punk, post-ambient, post-hardcore, post-punk, post-rock, power metal, progressive metal, punk, r&b, rap, reggae, sadcore, shoegaze, ska, soul, soundtrack, symphonic metal, synthpop, techno, trance, trash metal, or trip hop.

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I don't know which to try first, the Peking Duck (with MSG) or the Beef Stroganoff?

The day before yesterday, we thought we were being soooo clever. We were working on a spot that required GPS SFX so we hopped in the car with Scott's Magellan GPS unit, programmed directions to Lucky Dog Audio, took a spin around downtown Little Rock, and recorded the Magellan beeping and cooing at us as we made all the right turns to get us back home. Awesome idea! Good job, Lucky Dog! Home run on the foley work there boys!

Nope.

The spot went to the client for approval and out came the gong. Spot's no good. Turns out the client has a Garmin GPS in their car, so all those Magellan bells and whistles mean nada.

Now it is time for reflecting on the task of creating authentic simulations of specific audio events when using new gadgets that are, as of yet, unfettered to concrete audio signifiers. And yes, we've been through this before. Several months ago we were working on a spot that needed a cell phone ring. We dropped a fairly ubiquitous ringtone into the spot and the client said, "Hey, that cell phone ring doesn't sound like my cell phone ring!" Not to sound like old man Wilson down the street, but it used to be a phone sounded like a phone. Not anymore.

Silent reflective pause.

So yesterday, our buddy Gary graciously lent us a Garmin GPS. Here's a shot of Scott pointing our Rode shotgun microphone at his (Gary's) unit (please refrain from commenting on this sentence).

We thought we were being soooo clever. . .

Nerve presents the 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies of all time and like the "100 bucks" in the Bad Idea Jeans commercial, I foresee my morning evaporating.

Not only is it Cinco De Mayo, today is also "Car Appreciation Day" here at Lucky Dog Audio. First off, my wife drove by this morning in a red Cadillac. Pretty sweet. She's working on a 7 Day Film Project and landed this Caddy as a prop.

Secondly, Scott needed some GPS sound effects for a radio spot we are producing. What better way to get those GPS tones than to hop in the car and drive around town with a GPS? So here's a pic of Scott pointing our Rode shotgun mic at his Magellan GPS unit (please refrain from commenting on this sentence). Scott Minor - call him the "Verisimilitude Dude."

Finally, for good measure, here's a picture I took yesterday of a Buick Regal. In case you were wondering, this is a 1984 Buick Regal. That being the case, I didn't think it technically qualified as a donk. Others disagree.

Donk it is.

An early and extremely catchy reminder - Mother's Day is next Sunday, May 11.

Here's a helpful guide to the relationship between successful computer programming and facial hair.

It's like all those other Rube Goldberg machine ads, but more funny less better different.

Yeah.

That's it.

It's the same but different.