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We are excited to announce that access to FilmTVsound.com is now FREE to everyone!

Over the years,  this website has served as an informative resource and online coursebook for numerous audio classes taught at universities and colleges worldwide.

Because we have never accepted paid advertising, in order to remain editorially unbiased, there used to be a minimal subscription fee to cover hosting/domain fees and a few negotiated copyright permissions. But we are retired these days. And those paid copyrights that we had to pay for are no longer being enforced.

Even though most of the articles are dated in terms of some specific mentions of make/models -- the production sound recording techniques are still viable. We considered just shutting the entire website down, but too many of the folks we talked with insisted that the information provided here was too valuable to just disappear.

As many of you know, Fred Ginsburg is now retired and enjoying his free time. Yes, he still writes and consults -- and wants to keep this website available to students, former students, and members of our Sound community. So he has made arrangements that allow us to reduce our subscription fees to a token five bucks across the board. Yes, you read that correctly: five dollars for lifetime access to this site.

Why not completely free? It has to do with intellectual property rights of the contents; there are still contractual agreements in force, in addition to copyright protections which become almost impossible to enforce when said materials are openly given away for free.

But still complimentary (per prior, long standing special arrangements) for guild & union members, as well as fellow faculty.

Here are links to videos detailing the operation of the Sound Devices 688 recorder and its companion CL-12 fader controller (aka "mixing board").