Tim Duck A couple of ex-CIT Music Business teachers have a chat. Rodney Holder (of Alchemist fame) interviews Vickii Cotter (of Visabel, Noosa Jazz Festival). Vickii is a very knowledgeable event manager and is a mentor of mine for events stuff. Check out the podcast here: http://www.musicbusinessfacts.net/335/vickii-cotter/
This was a post on Craigslist that was later passed on through the sound community… http://eqtion.com/the-4-biggest-myths-about-location-sound-sound-gear-and-sound-operators/
Interesting video of some VLF material interpreted into a visual form. Looks pretty cool… 20 Hz from Semiconductor on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/30668685
Here’s an interesting little site and web app that maps out tempos from popular songs: http://labs.echonest.com/click/
No, not more plug-ins. This is a short interactive web tour so that people can sample some basic settings on a couple of classic compressors. The first one is an SSL G series bus compressor, which is arguably “the” classic stereo bus compressor. I made a kit version of one of these and they do … Read more Virtual Compressors
Confused by manual camera settings? This neat online DSLR simulator lets you play with settings like ISO, aperture, and shutter speed so that you can learn how the different settings affect your image. Check it out at: http://camerasim.com/apps/camera-simulator/
On Saturday I attended the Wired Lab Open Day. Wired Lab is based on a farm near Cootamundra, NSW, and is an “artist led organisation evolving interdisciplinary art practices in rural Australia”. A big element of the Wired Lab is their large scale fence wires that traverse parts of the property. The wires sing in … Read more Wired Lab Open Day 2014
This is pretty cool… What Does Sound Look Like? from NPR on Vimeo.
Around 18 months ago Ayla Pentikainen and I put together an installation for the Burning Seed festival which is held near Matong, NSW. The festival is an offshoot of the Burning Man festival in USA, and is not-for-profit and based around art and community. For more information about the festival, check out http://www.burningmanaustralia.com/burning-seed The theme … Read more Mythinterpret
Sometimes you don’t get a suitable room tone or atmos track to use as fill when editing dialogue, in which case you end up cutting together what you can out of the quiet parts on what you have. The video at the folowing link shows a handy technique using the Strip Silence feature in Pro … Read more Dialogue Editing – Creating Fill Technique