Tim Duck DPA have some fantastic information about microphones and audio on their website, and they recently posted up a comprehensive article discussing speech intelligibility and some of the important aspects of the timbre of the voice and microphone placement. Read the full article at: https://www.dpamicrophones.com/mic-university/facts-about-speech-intelligibility
Like a lot of Pro Tools users, I’m excited that Avid have put track folder functionality into the latest version of Pro Tools. It is one of those features that some DAWs have had for a long time, so it is about time that Pro Tools could do it. Scot Weber has put together a … Read more Pro Tools Track Folders for Post-Production
Jon Lefkovitz has put together a great feature-length documentary from over 50 hours of Murch’s lectures, interviews, and commentaries. It is like a 75 minute masterclass and discusses sound design, the role of music, film editing and more. Watch the whole thing here:
Nathan Lively from Sound Design Live caught up with respected live sound engineer Dave Rat for an interview about Dave’s approach to live sound and troubleshooting amongst other things. The interview podcast can be found in the Sound Design Live podcast feed or at the website:
The Wall of Sound is a large sampler/sequencer installation which has been set up for Katowice Street Art 2019: Urban Sound, in the south of Poland. Check it out: https://cdm.link/2020/02/sampler-sequencer-public-art
DPA have a lot of great information about microphones on their website, including details of various configurations in their Mic University. They recently published a post which has a good discussion of multi-channel microphone techniques which can be viewed at: https://www.dpamicrophones.com/mic-university/immersiver-sound-objekt-basiertes-audio-und-mikrofone
Avid released Pro Tools 2019.10 the other day which includes the Dolby Audio Bridge which makes it even more capable for producing Dolby Atmos mixes. Along with this release Netflix have updated their recommendation for Dolby Atmos mixes, including that while there are minimum requirements for mixes, Dolby Certification is not required for Home Atmos … Read more Netflix and Dolby Atmos
It is obvious (to sound engineers at least) what the effect of cupping a handheld microphone does to the polar response of directional microphones in live performances, which is popular in a lot of the metal genres, but DPA have gone and published an article about the effects on frequency response too, including a resonant … Read more Proper Hand Placement on a Vocal Mic
The Phonurgia Nova Awards is an international awards program for the sound arts that is held in France, and my work Beneath the Surface has been listed as a nominee in the Field Recording category. The event and judging will happen later this month, but you can read the list of nominees at: http://phonurgia.fr/2019/09/04/ears-without-borders/
Randy Thom, one of the greats of sound design, has a blog post about being creative and embracing accidents and mistakes. One of my favourite quotes from it is: A Craftsman knows how to avoid accidents — an Artist knows how to use them Randy Thom Read the full blog post at Randy’s website: