Congratulations to composer Stephen McKeon on winning the 2015 IFTA Award for Best Original Score, for John Boorman’s latest film, “Queen and Country”.  Queen and Country is a 2014 British drama film directed by John Boorman.  It was also selected to be screened as part of the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.  The film is a sequel to Boorman’s 1987 […]

Galway City of Film, in association with Screen Training Ireland, Screenscene/Ardmore Sound, Gréasán na Meán, Big Bear Sound & Galmac, were delighted to welcome editor and sound designer, Walter Murch to Galway, on Saturday May 23rd 2015. Walter, who has won Oscars for both Editing and Sound Design, took part in an in-depth interview about […]

Big Bear Sound are delighted to have helped successfully move Gorilla Post from their original split-premises set-up on Herbert Lane to a much larger, consolidated facility on Merrion Square, in the heart of Georgian Dublin. Beginning with a single audio suite back in 2009, Gorilla Post has gone from strength to strength ever since, adding […]

The West Ocean String Quartet, winner of The Irish Times/The Ticket’s “Trad CD of the Year, 2013” for their album “An Indigo Sky“, now uses DPA d:vote 4099  instrument microphones, supplied by Ireland’s DPA distributor, Big Bear Sound. Their recent feature appearance at Ceiliúradh (Celebration) – a special evening of music, spoken word and dance in London’s Royal Albert […]

Big Bear Sound will soon be hosting DPA Microphones training events for retailers, installers and system integrators. These sessions will focus on: musical instruments and acoustics with microphones microphone designs and technologies: condenser vs dynamic large-diaphragm vs small-diaphragm transformer vs transformerless output omnidirectional vs directional /cardioid microphones specs and what they mean selecting the correct […]

Big Bear Sound will soon be hosting Genelec training events for retailers, installers and system integrators.   Preview: These sessions will focus on: key Genelec technologies selecting the correct model of speaker and/or subwoofer correct speaker placement for stereo and surround speaker mounting options and accessories acoustical calibration (room response controls) introduction to Genelec’s Smart […]

The Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny was happy to wear a DPA d:fine™ 4088 Headset Microphone when he opened the fourth Dublin Web Summit at the RDS last month. DPA microphones played a vital role at Dublin’s fourth Web Summit at the RDS by ensuring that key speakers could be clearly heard, despite high levels of […]

Genelec: Come in and audition the entire Genelec 8000-series monitor speakers and more in our acoustically-treated demo space – with all models acoustically calibrated and level-matched, in stereo or 5.1 surround, and with or without subwoofers. We have Genelec’s Smart Active Monitoring (SAM) system on display – a computer-based setup enabling system control and automatic […]

Big Bear Sound is Ireland’s leading installer of Savant Systems’ suite of integrated solutions that has defined the modern age of home and commercial automation. Savant’s Apple-based platform cohesively addresses control, audio/video, telephony, digital display, energy management and the media integration needs of today’s most advanced environments. Through its relationship with Apple, Savant has leveraged […]