Heat for post (nothing to do with Michael Mann)

[MIKEROPHONICS]

Ok - so any post mixers playing with heat yet? or are we to cool?

I have had Phoenix sitting in my plugs for a while and have never bothered trying - maybe it's time.....

curious

cheers

[Henchman]

Can't be bothered to use it, personally.

[myke2242]

i am not a post mixer but i wanted to ask you why would a post mixer would want to use Heat?

[EarHole]

never heard of it.

[Ian Palmer]

Hey Mike,

I've been wanting to try it out of curiosity but I'm too busy at the moment. Not sure it'd have much use in Post. Although doing a retro sound design is not that common. Like making a 50s looking film but with modern sound, you could do a 50s looking film with 50s sound? No idea how much it changes the sound though.

Have to agree that we're far too cool to use such things

Ian

[MIKEROPHONICS]

My curiosity was aroused as the our music brethren wax lyrical about it - and wondered if it was emperors new clothes - or mandatory on any mixing stage for the sax premix?

More seriously I just wondered if the "gentlemen of a filmic persuasion" would insist their dials went through it? or the music premixes?. Just keeping a beady eye out looking for trends....

cheers

[lode]

Ian: I´m no big film mixer, but I recently did a short that was shot on super 8.
Ran everything through izotope vinyl to thoroughly crunch it together.

It actually sounded pretty "good". Or maybe "right" is a better word-

Crude but effective. I almost can´t believe they give vinyl away for free.

I´m curious too about how much HEAT would help us.

[jimlongo]

I tried it and didn't notice much if any difference. The sound we have to deal with is so lo-fi most of the time there isn't much point.

[Reckless Erik]

Spot on Jim

[FajitaTone]

Not sure it would make that much difference.

A great use of "lofi" sound design/ recording was "Black Dynamite". It was lit old, shot old, and mixed old. But it totally worked.