Rose Hill Drive on Conan

Coupe's favorite sons, Rose Hill Drive, will be making an appearance on the Conan O'Brien show on July 29th in support of their new album "Moon is the New Earth."

RHD also rocked the crowd this past weekend at Mile High Music Festival on a bill that included Tom Petty, Dave Matthews, Steve Winwood, The Roots, The Black Crowes and fellow Coupe artists Meniskus and Flobots. The turnout at the inaugural year for the event numbered over 90,000!

Carnegie Hall: A Coupe family affair

Coupe Studios' Lead Composer Kip Kuepper had the opportunity in 1986 to perform at Carnegie Hall with Firefall. Over 20 years later, he got an even greater honor: Seeing his daughter Tory perform there!
Her group Jubilate (a vocal choir) - performed there June 3, 2008.

Lost Season Finale

Did you catch the 18-hour Lost season finale last night? You probably TiVO'd through a bunch of commercials we produced, but you also heard some of our work during the show. We worked with Josh Holloway (Sawyer) doing some ADR for several episodes this year, and most recently he was in last week to work on the season finale - just before it aired.

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What the hell is ADR, you ask?
Here's how our friends at Wikipedia explain it:

Automated dialogue replacement or Additional dialogue recording (ADR) is a film sound technique involving the re-recording of dialogue after photography, also known as "looping."

In conventional film production, a production sound mixer records dialogue during photography, but several uncontrollable issues, such as traffic or animal noise, during principal photography can cause the production sound to be unusable. This is also true for computer-generated imagery, since some of the "actors" were not actually present at the set.

When the film is in post-production, a Supervising Sound Editor or ADR Supervisor reviews all of the dialogue in the film and rules which actor lines will have to be replaced using the ADR technique.

ADR is recorded during an ADR session. An actor, usually the original actor on set, is called to a sound studio equipped with video playback equipment and sound playback and recording equipment. The actor wears headphones and is shown the film of the line that must be replaced, and often he or she will be played the production sound recording. The film is then projected several times, and the actor attempts to re-perform the line while watching the image on the screen, while an ADR Recordist records the performances. Several takes are made, and based on the quality of the performance and sync, one is selected and edited by an ADR Editor for use in the film.

Is that Santa I hear on the rooftop?

No, just the pitter-patter of workers' feet as they install our new air conditioning unit for Studio A. No flying reindeer, just a big-ass crane in the parking lot.