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As one of Canada's leading sound mixers and technical producers, Brent Marchenski has accumulated 20 years experience working across the globe on a wide range of productions from feature films through to sport, documentaries, sitcoms and gameshows. Having been a part of numerous Emmy award-winning productions, Brent's outstanding contribution to Canadian drama and documentaries has been recognised through consecutive Gemini award nominations for each of the last three years.
As a long-standing and enthusiastic HHB PORTADAT owner, Brent recently upgraded to HHBıs PORTADRIVE location recorder in direct response to a series of increasingly complex and demanding projects. One particularly challenging task was to capture the individual sounds of 16 ice hockey players for the reality show Making The Cut a countrywide search for the best unsigned hockey players in Canada, which saw 4000 players taking advantage of a unique opportunity to experience big league drills and test their on-ice skills under the watchful eyes of professional scouts and coaches.
With the job of individually recording up to 16 players every day for 14 days going way beyond the capabilities of any DAT recorder, hard disc became Brentıs obvious choice. Having come to rely on the quality and reliability of HHB products through using the PORTADAT, PORTADRIVE was more than a match for this extremely tough assignment, as Brent discovered:
"I used two PORTADRIVEs in tandem and they were totally intuitive and absolutely rock-solid throughout. During the course of the project I accumulated 350GB of sound data, which we were able to export directly into the timeline of the AVID system ready for post-production. It was quick and absolutely seamless, and trying to achieve the same results using a tape-based recorder would have simply been impossible due to the transfer time and costs involved. For this reason, we've been achieving savings of up to 20,000 Canadian dollars on productions purely by using the PORTADRIVE and everyone, including me, has been ecstatic with the results!"
Explaining the increasingly complex nature of productions such as Making The Cut, Brent commented, "As a modern sound recordist I'm always looking for an edge - a new technology that can help me find solutions for my client's needs. PORTADRIVE is truly exciting since it opens up so many possibilities and offers so much flexibility. From an ease-of-use point of view the PORTADRIVE has common sense written all over it, and when you couple that with its phenomenal sound quality then you have a truly amazing piece of equipment."
Commenting for HHB, Managing Director Ian Jones said, "Brent's experiences with Making The Cut highlight the way in which PORTADRIVE is at the very heart of changing production techniques. With its ability to support HD and surround sound video production, and its obvious cost savings at the post-production stage, PORTADRIVE continues HHB's commitment to developing the best technology for professional audio location recording."
Founded in 1976, HHB Communications is Europe's leading supplier of professional audio equipment to the broadcast sector, post production facilities, recording studios, sound recordists, industrial and academic establishments. HHB also develops and distributes a range of innovative own brand products, including the PORTADRIVE 8-channel 24-bit/96kHz location sound recorder, the PORTADISC professional portable MD recorder, the CDR830 BurnIT and BurnIT PLUS CD recorders and HHB Professional Recording Media. HHB operates from headquarters in North West London and its products are supplied and supported by a network of distribution partners worldwide. A recent addition to the company is Soho-based Scrub, set up to address the audio technology requirements of the post-production sector.
For further information, please contact:
Dave Dysart
President
HHB Communications Canada
260 King Street East
Toronto
Ontario M5A 4L5
Canada
Tel: 416 867 9000
Fax: 416 867 1080
E-mail: sales@hhbcanada.com
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Ian Jones
Managing Director
HHB Communications Ltd
73-75 Scrubs Lane
London, NW10 6QU
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8962 5000
Fax: +44 (0)20 8962 5050
E-mail:sales@hhb.co.uk
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