Renowned photographer Ami Vitale "On Air"

Ami Vitale, photographer for Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, US News & World Report, The New York Times, among others and winner of the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism, will be our guest on the next Uptempo "On Air" to be available on September 21st.

She will be talking about how she perceives advertising and music after traveling around the world and meeting different cultures.

Send your questions or suggestions toonair@uptempoaudio.com and check out her recent video for the new Nikon camera.

Uptempo "On Air" first guest The Crystal Method "Drown in the Now"

Listen to The Crystal Method's Ken Jordan, talking about advertising and how they have marketed themselves to be a successful band in Uptempo "On Air".

Uptempo launches the Uptempo Podcast Channel and its own podcast “ON AIR”

The Uptempo Podcast Channel will include three podcast that are all about music.

First, Uptempo "On Air" where Advertising and Music's most influential people will discuss in a very informal way, about business strategies in their industries.

We will feature top advertising executives talking about music and famous personalities having a conversation about advertising, a perfect balance in a 30 minutes show available via iTunes or our Uptempo Podcast Channel.

Listen to Grammy Award Nominee “The Crystal Method” talking to us about their advertising work and more in this first show produced and recorded by Uptempo and hosted by Buster.

Then "Por todos estos años" is a podcast produced in spanish by Ivan Loscher, one of the most recognized voices in Latin America, a music guru, philosopher, best selling writer, TV host and winner of the National Journalism Award in his native Venezuela. Ivan is actually the voice of HBO, Chilevision, Ecuavisa and TV Libre as well as many radio stations in the continent and major brands.

"Por todos estos años" features one full hour of music and stories about a selection of songs created in the last 50 years, from Pink Floyd to Chemical Brothers, The Rolling Stones to Arctic Monkeys, this podcast has music for all tastes.

"La Hora del Gato" is the third podcast of the Uptempo Podcast Channel. Hosted by Humberto Rodriguez "El Gato" a TV and radio host, voice of TV Networks like Telemundo in the US, Discovery Channel and major brands like Ford. This podcast produced in spanish features 30 minutes of music and biographies from the 80's, 90's and today.

Three podcast, lots of music. Click here to subscribe right now and enjoy our shows. Subscription is free.

KFC Spot for Latin America and the Caribbean - Music & Audio Post by Uptempo

TV Networks Music ID by Uptempo

Music for TV Commercials - Uptempo Advertising Demo

This is our latest demo for Advertising featuring commercials for Ford, test test

What is an ISDN voice over recording?

For us at Uptempo, ISDN recording is an everyday task but we also know that there are lots of people who still don’t know about this way of sound recording. There are two ways to explain what is an ISDN recording: a simple and more colloquial way and a technological way.

Let’s get first to the easy one:

ISDN or Integrated Services Digital Network is a recording of high quality audio via a telephone system network between two studios. One studio has the talent and the other receives the audio in real time and in high quality.

One example of our work with ISDN for TV commercials includes basketball star Shaquille O’Neal who visited our studios in Miami to record a spot for Vitamin Water. While he was reading, the audio files were simultaneously received in another studio in New York where the client and creatives where directing the session and listening to Shaq just like he was there.

Two recording studios can even record in sync with a movie. That was the case of our recording with Oscar award winner actor Adrien Brody for his movie "Manolete".

ISDN is not new. Even Frank Sinatra recorded parts of his album “Duets” using ISDN in 1995.

Now the more technologic way:

ISDN is a telephone system network. Prior to the ISDN, the phone system was viewed as a way to transport voice, with some special services available for data. The key feature of the ISDN is that it integrates speech and data on the same lines, adding features that were not available in the classic telephone system.

ISDN is commonly used in radio broadcasting. Since ISDN provides a high quality connection this assists in delivering good quality audio for transmission in radio. Most radio studios are equipped with ISDN lines as their main form of communication with other studios or standard phone lines. Equipment made by companies such as Omnia (the popular Zephyr codec) and others are used regularly by radio broadcasters. Sometimes a dipswitch setting must be changed on one codec to "talk" with another made by a different manufactuer

ISDN is a circuit-switched telephone network system, that also provides access to packet switched networks, designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over ordinary telephone copper wires, resulting in better voice quality than an analog phone. It offers circuit-switched connections (for either voice or data), and packet-switched connections (for data), in increments of 64 kbit/s.

For more information on our ISDN sessions, please contact us.

The new Ford Fusion TV Commercial "Puppets" has sound design by Uptempo

Zubi Advertising has selected Uptempo to do the Audio Post for the new 2010 Ford Fusion TV commercial named "Puppets". The spot with creative direction by Andres Ordoñez and Mauricio Candela, has been created in full CG by The Mill - an animation company famous for their work in "Gladiator"among other movies and it is a masterpiece created to be aired in the US hispanic market.

According to the agency producer Ronnie Gonzalez, the spot is a combined work that had a dream team in post production that also included the work of Stimmung with the music and part of the sound design and Uptempo for an international casting of voices and the final touches of sound design and final mix.

Uptempo's audio engineer, Ricardo Tinoco had the duty of finishing the spot and Roger Dominguez the Executive Production.

"This might be the best spot of the year for us at Uptempo if we see it as the amount of time and details that are included in the spot. You can watch the spot several times and you discover a new detail every time. From the names of the tracks in the radio, to the signs in the street, it is an awesome work. In the sound design you can even listen to the wings of the birds or the gestures of one of the puppets. We are glad that Zubi has given us that big opportunity" says Dominguez.

For this spot Uptempo recorded an ISDN session with The Living Room studios in San Antonio Texas and Alex Vargas as the talent selected in this international casting that included studios in LA, New York, Miami, Madrid, Buenos Aires and Colombia.

The new Pepsi Max TV Commercial in the UK is recorded via ISDN with Uptempo.

As part of the brand's ICC World Twenty20 England cricket sponsorship, Pepsi Max launches a £1m on-pack promotion in the United Kingdom supported in TV by a spot recorded via ISDN with former cricket star player and current sportscaster, Michael Holding.

The spot will be airing during the month of June.

Uptempo takes 2 bronzes for Best Jingle as one of the winners of Festival Caribe 2009 in Panama

Uptempo se lleva dos bronces al mejor jingle y figura entre los ganadores del Festival Caribe 2009.

"Tango" and "Flamenco" the two jingles produced by Uptempo for the agency MGS Communications and the Florida Lottery have been selected by the jury of the Festival Caribe 2009 as the winners of the only 2 awards given in the category of Best Jingle.

The radio spots were created by Mariano German - Coley and Rodrigo Alonso from MGS and the composition was by Ricardo Tinoco of Uptempo.

"Tango" has already been one of the Gold Addys winners in the Florida Region and a finalist in El Ojo de Iberoamerica for the US Hispanic region.

For "Tango", Uptempo's Exec. Producer Roger Dominguez, got in contact with David Alsina -one of the best players of the bandoneon and Jorge Sanchez who is a veteran tango singer who also owns a popular restaurant in the Coral Gables area.

In the case of "Flamenco" Paco Fonta, a very popular flamenco artist, played the guitar and sang the whole jingle.

For more info visit www.uptempoaudio.com