I just came across Open Planet, which is a library of beautiful video footage that is free to use for educational, environmental and impact storytelling. It’s a cool idea, and a great resource for storytellers, which opens up the use of some fantastic footage for anyone who wants to use video to discuss environmental issues. … Read more Open Planet Videos
This is a short “Technical Notes” article that I wrote for the Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group’s Journal, AudioWings, a couple of years ago. It is intended as an introduction to what phase or polarity is in the context of nature sound recording. Thanks to Sue Gould, the editor of the journal at the time … Read more Understanding Ø/Phase
Airwiggles recently held an online conference (AirCon 2023) covering many aspects of audio production with “over 50 hours of live talks, panels, and interviews featuring inspiring audio professionals from around the world.” A lot of the events sounded interesting but the times of the events were usually not great for me to attend in real … Read more AirCon Audio Conference Recordings
Mike Thornton has written up a useful article for the Production Expert blog discussing the various metering options in Pro Tools, along with a little history on the different metering approaches. Worth reading for any audio folk: https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/understanding-advanced-metering-in-pro-tools
At the Schoeps MikroForum 2018, Hyunkook Lee (Senior Lecturer in Music Technology and the Leader of the Applied Psychoacoustics Lab (APL) at the University of Huddersfield, UK) gave a presentation discussing psychoacoustics in a 3D sound context which included some fascinating information about vertical localisation for 3D and immersive sound recording formats. A key note … Read more Psychoacoustics of 3D sound recording techniques
Craig Smith from the School of Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts undertook a huge digitisation project to archive rolls of film and tape containing sound effects from the 1930s to 1950s from Hollywood, and shared them on freesound.org under a Creative Commons 0 license. This is a generous and valuable undertaking to preserve … Read more Classic Hollywood Sound Effects on Freesound
Wired Magazine have done up a short video featuring Dave Rat discussing the evolution of music festival PA systems from point source rigs to line arrays, and the benefits that have come from this transition. Dave Rat explains the key points in a great and easy to understand manner. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/8c-gD4mwI8A
Schoeps have made a cool short video that demonstrates a few common polar responses for microphones. Check it out below.
UK Mastering guru Ian Shepherd from Production Advice presented a talk at a recent AES event focussed on “Mastering in the Streaming Era”. It starts with a general overview of what mastering is, but then goes into some more detail around considerations of mastering in the current era including loudness, normalisation and perceptual coding. You … Read more Ian Shepherd AES Mastering Talk
New Zealand Sound Designer Tim Prebble from HISSandaROAR has written up a blog post discussing the importance of audio sync for sound for screen, including a brief discussion on some of the key considerations and materials for post to help ensure sync. It might serve as a useful reference for those that are new to … Read more Sync for Audio Post