Steven Ghouti
“The Massive Meter Bridge allows me to show what I need from any machine, on a screen placed beneath our cinema screen, and that can be tucked away if other users don’t need it. We run the Massive Meter Bridge application on a standalone Mac, so we don’t have to worry about screen real estate on the player or recorder rigs.“
Bio
Born in England and then moving to France at age 9, Steven graduated from the ENS Louis Lumière film school in 1994, and started working in sound for picture shortly thereafter. After a few years doing location sound as well as post-production, he started Yellow Cab Studios with his partner Eric Lesachet in 1998. The focus was clearly on post-production from that point, and both with Yellow Cab and as a freelancer, Steven will go on to work as a sound editor and re-recording mixer for many projects. In recent years, he has worked mainly as a re-recording mixer for film and television projects.
Since 1998 Yellow Cab Studios has grown from a single facility with a small studio to a multi-site company with 5 studios and 7 sound editing rooms.
And a bit on my way of working:
In recent years, I have seen the transition from large-format digital film mixing consoles to completely in-the-box workflows.
In 2007, we were one of the first facilities in Europe to acquire the new version of the Euphonix System5 console, which allowed hybrid mixing with DSP channels and DAW Eucon channels. It was really the start of a revolution. However, I noticed that, barring some facilities that still used a film mixing console for monitoring purposes, it was usually tricky to have decent options for metering different stems or even different DAW in a multi-rig setup.
I’m a big fan of having an eye (and ears) on what is going on in the mix, even though we are mostly setting levels “by ear” on film projects. Seeing stem meters move has sometimes saved the day for tracks with improper routing.
80% of our film projects can now be mixed on one DAW, and the other 20% will need 2 or more rigs.
The Massive Meter Bridge allows me to show what I need from any machine on a screen placed beneath our cinema screen, and that can be tucked away if other users don’t need it. We run MMB on a standalone Mac, so we don’t have to worry about screen real estate on the player or recorder rigs.
