Eugene Gearty on one of the T-6 planes.

"Thelma [Schoonmaker, Scorsese's longtime film editor and trusted aide] would say, 'We need the sound of this plane,' and I'd say, 'Thelma, I don't have that.' It came to a head, and then the postproduction supervisor, Mike Jackman, got involved and said, 'Well, we're not going to start recording now--we can't make our temps if you go out and record now. So you have to come up with a plan.'" To read the rest of this article, click here.

Twisted In the Windy City
"We do updates every three to six months," says Derek Frederickson, founder of the up-and-coming music library, Twisted Tracks. "In fact, I have another ten artists signed and ready to go. I just have to make the decision to devote the next month to all the production it takes to actually get the new stuff up online." With comprehensive compilations in a wide range of styles--including Atmospheric, Ambient, Chillout, Club, Electro, Rock, Soundtrack, Underground, and more--Twisted Tracks has, in a relatively short period of time, proven itself to be a vital (and popular) source of contemporary library tracks. And in the process, Frederickson has also established his growing collective of talented musicians and composers.

Frederickson says that about 90 percent of Twisted Tracks sales are online, and he foresees a day in the not so distant future when it will be entirely Internet-driven. "I think the days of people needing something concrete, like discs, is coming to an end. It takes a while for people to get accustomed to working in new ways. It takes knowing that you're going to have reliable access to get what you need. And I think we're already there with selling [library music online]." To read the rest of this article, click here.

The DMA: Opus 1's Magnum Opus
Mitch Rabin, Opus 1 VP of sales and marketing, is eager to talk about "one of the things we have that sets us far apart from other music libraries--the DMA, the Digital Music Assistant." The DMA is a dedicated delivery system that offers clients an astounding array of production music options in an extremely user-friendly package.

"It's a small, 120GB external hard drive that fits in the palm of your hand," Rabin notes. "It has 40,000 songs in high-res MP3, which is a Microsoft technology that has proven to be broadcast quality--we use it in our audio post facility every day, and we've never had a quality issue with it. And of course the DMA is also a search engine--you're able to search by genre, mood, style, instrumentation. Basically, it lets people audition hundreds of songs in a matter of minutes. It's infinitely more efficient than going through piles of CDs. It's pretty much plug-and-play on most systems. Like on a Mac, an icon shows up on the screen, you click on it, and you're off to the races." To read the rest of this article, click here.

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