Tim Duck The Discovery of Sound in the Sea website has some great information and resources about underwater sound, particularly with regards to sound in the ocean and its effects on sea creatures. Included on their site is a really clear simple explanation of the SOFAR channel which you can check out at: Sound Travel in the … Read more SOFAR Channel Explanation
Earlier in the year Pro Sound Effects published a video that featured supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Brad Engleking (Sin City 2, Machete Kills) discussing his top tips for dealing with Pro Tools automation. He takes a non-control surface approach in this video that is applicable to anyone with Pro Tools, although some aspects are only available … Read more Pro Tools Mixing Automation Tutorial with Brad Engleking
Tape Op magazine have published a handy article titled “Studio Etiquette: Everything Your Engineer Wants You To Know But Is Afraid To Say”, which covers pretty much what it says in the title. There might be one or two things that I would add or cover slightly differently, but in general I agree with what … Read more Studio Etiquette
I love a good infographic or comic explainer, and The Conversation have posted a nice graphic explanation of the importance of old growth eucalypts here in Australia. You can check it out at the link below. https://theconversation.com/comic-explainer-forest-giants-house-thousands-of-animals-so-why-do-we-keep-cutting-them-down-106708
Skywalker Sound is one of the big names in sound for film, and a short video profile has been posted up by American Lifestyle chatting to their Foley team about their work. Check it out below.
OzPod2018: ABC’s Podcast Conference, was on this week, and ABC are kind enough to share recordings of their sessions online which includes some potentially useful resources for podcasters. You can check them out at: https://www.abc.net.au/events/ozpod/episodes/
The Visualist Capitalist website has posted a great graph showing music industry sales in the USA in $ (adjusted for inflation) over the past 40 years. It shows that music sales revenue peaked in the late 90’s, with CDs making up over 95% of the market in 2002, before MP3s and streaming services came online … Read more Music Industry Sales
For a documentary project that I recently completed audio post-production on, I was asked about converting the native 25 frames per second (fps) audio mixes to a 24 frames per second (fps) version to make a 24 fps DCP that is a safe interop version for playback worldwide for festival screenings. The normal process for converting from … Read more 25fps to 24fps Audio for DCP
Apple have recently published a couple of specifications documents for podcasting at: https://help.apple.com/itc/podcastsbestpractices/ https://podcaster.apple.com/ The Best Practices document discusses formats and loudness. Loudness is as expected at -16 LKFS, although they don’t mention anything different for mono vs stereo which I find a little odd. It is pretty standard practice for mono content to be … Read more Podcast Specifications
A friend recommended I check out a video of one of the talks from GDC 2017 from Australian composer and sound designer Mick Gordon about his work on the Doom game soundtrack from a year or two ago. It provides some interesting insight into his approach and creativity in general. Check out the full talk … Read more Behind the Music of Doom