4/24/2006 - Film post guru finds many of his favorite Eventide effects in plug-in form
Now finishing work on the upcoming film "Stand By Your Man," Academy Award winning sound designer Frank Serafine is getting the chance to work with some of Eventide's classic effects in their new plug-in form. An Eventide user since 1978, Frank most recently upgraded to Anthology II in March of 2006 and has found them to be quite useful, especially for the new movie, as well as some other current music projects.
"The movie features an enormous mansion with large rooms and halls that created a lot of natural reverberation during scenes that called for live dialogue," recalls Serafine. "But there is one scene that called for an elevator to be operational. Well, the elevator produced a consistent, very annoying, humming sound while filming. So we used ProTools to go back and edit out the droning noise. Then, we had to add a piece of dialogue into the shot which could not be captured live. So, we recorded the dialogue in the studio and used the Eventide Reverb plug-in from Anthology II to add just enough reverb to the added vocal to match the acoustics of the actual space."
Serafine has been involved with projects in Hollywood for more than 20 years and has worked on such epic movie projects as Star Trek, The Fog, Tron, The Hunt for Red October, and The Addams Family. Working from his studio in Malibu, California, Serafine is still involved with sound design, mixdown, dialog editing, foley recording and location audio, among other services.
"Eventide's effects and processors have always been some of the best available. In my opinion, the DSP4000 was one of the most effective processors ever made. So, it is great to see that these new plug-ins sound just as good as the originals."