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Thursday, October 30, 2025

DPA A Key Component In The Toolkit Of Location Sound Mixer La’Ron Cooper

ProSoundWeb: Boston-based location sound mixer La’Ron Cooper, who specializes in film and television sound production, especially within the documentary genre with recent projects including Netflix’s “The Starting Five,” a sports docuseries that follows NBA stars as well as two HBO Max docuseries — “Celtics City,” about the Boston Celtics, and “Big 12: Uncovered,” about the football teams in the NCAA Big 12 Conference, regularly deploys a range of microphones from DPA in his work.

1 comment:

Maxwell Hamilton said...

Yeah I'm glad as well that shure is falling out of grace. They've seriously failed to improve their microphones for the longest time, and it's good to see microphones brands like DPA surface. Love to see the improvement that other companies are making. I also wish though that the audio industry would stop giving companies like Yamaha that much credit. They are starting to end up in the same place that Shure is where they refuse to innovate for whatever reason and keep things the same in an ever changing environment. I mean compared to the Digico desks. The interface of the Yamaha hasn't changed majorly since 2005 with the M7CL, and it's just insane to me that if you look at any other mixer, they are all years ahead interface wise, it's so much more clean and useable. Then their software doesn't work on retina screens for Mac users. I had to manually force a resolution using a third party app to get CL edit to work properly. It's just so disappointing and I wish they would start getting crap for it.