| Score
for "Charlie's Angels" Recorded on Euphonix System 5 Digital Console
Session engineer Chris Fogel says: "I don't want to use any other console now." |
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| Palo
Alto, Calif., November 9, 2000 -- The fast-action score for the sexy and
smart box office smash, "Charlie's Angels," was remixed on an
all-digital Euphonix System 5 High Performance Digital Post Production Console
at Front Page Recorders, Glendale, CA. At the helm during the realization
of composer Ed Shearmur's high-energy music soundtrack was session engineer
Chris Fogel. During its opening weekend, "Charlie's Angels," directed
by McG and starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu plus Bill Murray,
secured a box-office gross of $40.5 million for Sony Pictures Entertainment,
making it one of the biggest non-summer openings ever. "The System 5 is great," enthuses Chris Fogel. "It sounds scarily clean! The clarity of the 'Charlie's Angels' score is wonderful - thanks to the System 5's transparency. Sonically, it's the best sounding console I've ever worked on, bar none. It's beefy; it's responsive; and the EQ works really well. I've used [Euphonix] CS Series consoles for the past seven years, but the System 5 is a whole new experience. And although I've worked on System 5 before for album projects, it's never been for anything as busy as the surround-sound score for 'Charlie's Angeles.' I don't want to use any other console now. I would recommend it to anyone. The sonics, the ergonomics ... everything is perfect." The score for "Charlie's Angels" combines several electric/rhythm and synthesizer elements with a full 75-piece orchestra, which was recorded at the world-famous Sony Scoring Stage, Culver City. "The orchestra was mixed to a [Euphonix] R-1 digital 48-track," Chris Fogel explains, "and sounds marvelous. I recorded the other instruments - drums, bass, guitar - to [Mark of the Unicorn] Digital Performer. The score contains about 45 cues; all but approximately 10 minutes of film features music." Synthesizer and sampler tracks were also recorded to Digital Performer as MIDI information. "At Front Page, we had 48 orchestral tracks plus up to 60 tracks from Digital Performer [playing back from an Apple Macintosh workstation]," Fogel continues. "The System 5 was max'ed out running a full-on 106-input configuration, routing to several 5.1-channel and stereo stems. Setting up everything up on the System 5 was a breeze; I could reach everything from the sweet spot. Euphonix' new FC727 Format Converter proved extremely useful, Fogel says. "We didn't use any of the standard converters; we just came digitally [from the Macintosh workstation] to the System 5. Basically, the 727 bypasses the Digidesign 888 [I/O units used by Digital Performer] and allowed us to come straight off the PCI cards to System 5 - it worked flawlessly." Final soundtrack stems were recorded to Digidesign ProTools for music editing, and transfer to the dubbing stage. "Charlie's Angels" was re-recorded to SDDS Eight-Channel digital format by Gary Bourgeois (handling dialog and music) and Greg Orloff (sound effects) at Sony Pictures Entertainment's Burt Lancaster Theatre. Chris Fogel has enjoyed a high level of success in recent years, including sessions with Alanis Morrisette (two multi-Platinum CDs), Robbie Robertson, U2, Aerosmith and The Urge. In the past he has also collaborated on three other film scores with composer Ed Shearmur: "Blue Streak," "Cruel Intentions" and "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her." He is currently working at Front Page Recorders on Shearmur's score for the new film, "Miss Congeniality." "The thing I like best about System 5," Chris Fogel concludes, "is that you put up the faders, and the console just sounds right." Designed to handle a wide cross section of applications, System 5 is targeted towards post-production, music recording and on-air broadcast customers that require greater than 100 channel paths of full 24-bit digital signal processing at up to 96 kHz sampling rates. A total of 51 System 5 Digital Consoles - "The Three-in-One Solution" - have now been ordered. Based in Silicon Valley California, Euphonix Inc. develops, manufactures and supports networked digital audio systems for music, film & TV post-production, broadcast, sound reinforcement and multimedia applications. Through innovative design, Euphonix products enable professional artists, producers, and engineers, to be more productive and creative than ever before. Founded in 1988, Euphonix has delivered more large format digital-control mixing consoles worldwide than any other manufacturer and is the first professional console manufacturer to deliver a 24bit 96kHz audio console and multitrack recorder to the industry. For more information call (650) 855-0400 or visit the Euphonix web site at www.euphonix.com. Euphonix, Inc. 220 Portage Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306-2242, USA. Source: Euphonix, Inc. Web: www.euphonix.com |
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