Show Odd Tricks Used in in Capture 1 Of True V Voices es and Sounds I j Ij By n COONS HOLLYWOOD Dec Dee 8 UP UP- UP Chairs and rubber mats would seem to have no relation to singing for forthe forthe forthe the screen but knowing that they do keeps Mike McLaughlins McLaughlin's job 1 safe from monotony Mike is the mixer or sound modulator on all musical recordings recordings record record- ings at the Metro studios where voices are prolific Mike is a musician musi mud cian clan as well as a sound engineer Through his modulating panel in ina ina ina a soundproof room over the recording recording recording record record- ing stages pass all aU the notes that later you hear from the screen All singers lingers says Mike have unexpected tricks that the mixer has har to learn For instance the microphones showed a a waver In Nelson Eddys Eddy's high notes until notes until I found that he shakes his head slightly as though shaking out a song This caused him to sing into the and past it in quick alternation A new placement place place- ment of two microphones fixed tha that t. t Jeannette MacDonald has a lot lol lotof lotof of dance instinct in her and she was prone to sway with the music We fixed that by having her lean against the back of a chair with her hands on it while singing The chair doesn't show on the screen since all recording is done I without benefit of camera in advance advance ad ad- I Ivance vance of filming fUming It is Eleanor Powell whose vocalizing vocalizing vocal- vocal I izing zing calls for the rubber mat The Theady I lady ady cant can't help tapping while she sings so they stand her on the mat and she can tap to her toes toes' content Robert Taylor when he sang in Broadway Melody of 1936 was vas required to keep his hands in his pockets That way he couldn't keep snapping his fingers lingers In time to the music musie |