Lucky Dog Audio Post

Here's some recent work we produced for Blam and M.B. Piland promoting the Google... oops... I mean, Topeka Chamber of Commerce.

In what has to be the most hilarious "technical difficulty" story of recent times, let me relate a little problem we had with an ISDN talent (who shall remain anonymous) the other day. Basically we had a couple of pickups to record and our gracious talent agreed to squeeze us in before another session. When we dialed her, the sound coming down the line was totally frazzled. We could barely hear her and then the audio completely dropped out. A few minutes later we got a harried email saying "I am having major technical problems...." Thankfully we had a little wiggle room with our production schedule so we told her to get back in touch with us when she got back online.
One day later, we finally heard back. Turns out that the day of our session, her spouse acquired a bunny for the family. Somehow the bunny got into her home studio and chewed up her audio lines. Nice bunny.

Pictured above: Hazel and Sweet Fur, two of the most ferocious bunnies I've ever encountered. Sweet Fur actually screamed at me once. If you have friends that ever ask you to take care of their bunnies for them, let me tell you from personal experience, DON'T DO IT.

The audio cassette is dead. . .

Say So Long to an Old Companion - Cassette Tapes - NYTimes.com via kwout

Long live the audio cassette!

cassette tape culture via kwout

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. . .

Here at Lucky Dog, we love a corporate entity that has fun. Our friends at Archer Malmo have fun. We have fun too.

Here, we asked a portion of our staff to narrow down just exactly why working here is so much fun anyway.