We use what we understand to be industry standard West Coast USA scheduling terminology and policies:

Avail: this means you’re checking on whether time is available. It does not come with any guarantee the time will remain available unless you ask to put it on hold.

1st Hold: this means you have right of first refusal on any other requests for this time. Someone may challenge you for it. At one business day before the scheduled time it will automatically become booked unless you cancel the session explicitly before that time via email or (preferably) phone.

2nd, 3rd, &c. holds: These work just like a 1st hold except that you have 2nd or 3rd right of refusal, so if someone issues a challenge for time that has 3 holds, the 1st holder gets the first change to buy or release and if they release the 2nd holder gets it, then the 3rd, and so on.

Booked: This session is bought and will be invoiced whether you use it or not. If you want to cancel a booked session, we will waive the charge if we can resell the time.

Challenge: If you issue a challenge, you are committing to booking the session should you win the challenge. If you are challenged for time you have on hold or booked, you will be informed you are being challenged and will be asked if you want to book or release the time and you will have 4 working hours to respond or you will lose the time. Challengers take note: if there is more than one hold, this process can take up to 4 business hours per hold (4, 8, 12, &c.).

Check out our new and improved bios and headshots, including an important inclusion of Kat’s M.P.S.E. accreditation and a major update on our “intern” Larch, who has grown considerably since the last headshot we had up. I also put together a mobile friends landing page, so check out our site on your phone, too. Or if you are on your phone, our credit roll is gone (the code never worked on mobile so it just cluttered up the home page considerably) and you can see it (also updated recently) on our desktop site.

Hear Kitty Studios

Audio Post Services

contact via email info at hearkitty dot com
or voice +1 (505) 293-3305

“Kathleen [Edwards, M.P.S.E.] is a brilliant sound designer[,] one [of] if not the best ive ever worked with in Hollywood[.] working with her and Tor made this mix on last days a perfect  design for the feeling of brooklyn I had in mind[.]  Hear Kitty, this studio is  located in new Mexico far away from bklyn and they nailed it[.]”
~ Ralph Bakshi, legendary animator and director, Last Days of Coney Island

Louis Armstrong once said “if it sounds good, it is good.” Hear Kitty Studios is dedicated to that philosophy and to making the world sound better. Our specialty is one-stop-shopping for audio post production: bring us edited picture with rough dialog and temp music, and we’ll give you a cohesive, lush soundscape. Of course, all of our services are also available à la carte:

• ADR specialists (VO, too!)
• remote workflows:
  Source Connect/phone patch/Skype/&c.
• supervising or supervised sound editorial
• final re-recording mix mono to 5.1
  ready to upgrade to 7.1 or Dolby Atmos
• sound design & custom sound effects
• full service Foley
• print mastering & deliverables
• music production & composition
• audio “sweetening”
• radio and podcast production services

Not in New Mexico for post? No problem: we have established tried and true internet workflows enabling us to collaborate with producers all over the world. No matter how large or small your project, we can make it sound good, and you know what Louis says about that.

We have been keeping a mailing list for Holiday Cards and that’s all we’ve used it for—until yesterday. In the interest of sending you stuff you’re interested in without giving you stuff you don’t want, please feel free to use the following form to either sign up anew or to select the types of emails you’ll get. From this day forward, notices about backup purges and other producer-specific stuff will not be sent to the whole holiday card list, but only to the “producer info” list. We will include a reminder about these groups on our next holiday card. 😀

We need to purge some of our archival disk space. If you did a project with us which ended before January 1st, 2017 and you want to make sure you have an archive of the raw, unmixed audio, please contact us before Monday, October 15, 2018 to make arrangements with us. We’ll do The Purge that day.

Not sure if we’ve posted this on here, before, but we should. We have two spec sheets that we email often:

Hear Kitty Studios ADR stage spec sheet

Hear Kitty Studios full audio post spec sheet

This gear is being sold by a friend-of-a-friend (well, friend of many friends, more accurately). We don’t need any of it right now, but perhaps you do: http://albuquerque.craigslist.org/pho/5901147102.html

This could be your view at your next mix, except with Tor & Kat in the seats instead of having them empty. And with your movie up on the screen instead of 2 Years 8 Days.

Yeah, that’s right, we now have a dedicated computer for each of our re-recording mixers. We had the idea one day when we were moving the ADR stage from I-25 Studios to Albuquerque Studios for a session out there. The whole ADR rig became portable at the beginning of the most recent season of The Night Shift and we’ve gotten to the point where we can wrap an actor at one location and two hours later be recording an actor across town at the other location. If we could do that, sure we could move the ADR rig on to the mix stage for a two-mixer setup. Right? To quote Apocalypse Now, “absolutely god damned right” we can. The first time it took about 2 hours, and that included a lot of troubleshooting, so we’ll probably have that time down to about an hour pretty soon.

Boo-yah!

Do you have someone on your gift list who is a filmmaker or musician, or aspires to either? We can hook you up with a gift certificate and we’ll give you a discount. Don’t let geography get in the way, either, we’ve worked with people literally all around the world. Call 505-293-3305 or email info[at]hearkitty[dot]com.