Thanks very much. Same to you and yours. May 2013 be a great year for you.

Hello, ZoetMB. All the very best for the Holiday Season for you, your family and friends. May 2014 bring out all the very best in each and every one of us. Take care my friend. Miss your friendship and keeping in touch.

Actually, I think the 2nd befriending was an accident.
But in any case, I've been out of the business for a long time, so I don't know how worthy my advice would be. With the advent of cheap digital recording, many recording studios have closed, but soundtrack mixing is a whole other ball of wax. The problem is that the major studios only produce a few hundred films per year and there's a few thousand TV shows a year. So the market is very small. But if this is what you want to do, I'd say go for it. (It's what I wanted to do and I never really got to do it much - the recording I did was not for movies, except for sound effects.) One thing you need to do whether it's on your own or via a formal education is to get very familiar with ProTools. And you also need to be very familiar with film mixing: for starters, get the book by Tom Holman.

To contact me, write: mbrooks@nyintermedia.com

Please contact me through my email address. I am seriously considering studying to become an audio engineer to assist in soundtrack mixing and recording. I would welcome your advice. Thank you for befriending me - all over again.

I agree with in2video2 that seeing a movie in ToddAO (or the other similar 70mm formats) was an amazing experience. The favorite for me was West Side Story (Super Panavision 70), which I saw at the Rivoli in NYC. That presentation was probably one of the main reasons I became a recording engineer. I just couldn't believe that recorded sound for a movie could sound that good.

Thank you for your encouragement. I tried to go back and edit my comment where I had written: It was just like watching a 3D movie without the annoying glasses with an almost perfect depth perception on the huge curved screen. I meant to write "It was almost like watching..." I noticed you became a Recording Engineer. I became a Theatre Director and always enjoy the sound design aspects of production. Glad to meet you. Catch you later.