How speakers make sound
Here is a neat Animagraff that shows how convential cone speaker drivers work: http://animagraffs.com/loudspeaker/
Here is a neat Animagraff that shows how convential cone speaker drivers work: http://animagraffs.com/loudspeaker/
The Burns Film Center has a really neat Visual Glossary which includes some film term definitions, along with great examples from proper commercial feature films. Pretty neat. The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) is a nonprofit cultural arts center dedicated to teaching literacy for a visual culture; presenting the best of independent, documentary, and world … Read more Burns Film Center Visual Glossary
Fairly amusing (and true)…
Pretty cool old short film showing the role of the “Soundman” for motion picture making:
A good little reminder about The McGurk Effect: http://designingsound.org/2014/12/hearing-lips-and-seeing-voices-the-mcgurk-effect/
This clip uses some techniques that one of my Installations class groups would have loved to have pulled off quite this well… CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music – Nigel Stanford from Nigel Stanford on Vimeo.
For general video stuff I do I often lean on the H.264 codec as it tends to produce high quality at relatively small file sizes for most standard video stuff, however it is not always the best choice for everything, including using for video in Pro Tools post sessions. Randy Coppinger has written about some … Read more Video Codecs and Pro Tools
Stephan Schutze, of Sound Librarian and FMOD fame, has written an article explaining his views on the current state of game audio: http://www.asoundeffect.com/the-current-state-of-game-audio-and-what-lies-ahead/
This neat little video doing the rounds of the internet at the moment discusses how studies indicate that playing music is good for your brain. Duh.
Dave Noyze from Wired Lab got a big interview with Aphex Twin. It’s on the reading list: http://noyzelab.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/syrobonkers-part1.html