The Audible Range website have posted up a great article about the making of the original Star Trek sound effects, that includes a soundboard so you can sample the sounds on the site. Check it out at: http://audiblerange.com/categories/the-listening-life/kittens-kisses-and-razorblades-behind-star-treks-iconic-sounds/
The British Library has 22 archival audio recordings on its Sound website of Alan Blumlein’s binaural audio recording tests. Check them out at: http://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-recording-history/Alan-Blumlein-recordings
The Vinyl Factory have put a great interactive timeline of physical recorded music formats on their website. Check it out at: http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/the-evolution-of-physical-music-formats-an-interactive-timeline/
Here are a couple of videos relating to Alan Blumlein’s work. The first one here is a test of stereo recording from the EMI Archives: This next one shows Neville Thiele from the AES talking about Blumlein: Another resource from AES has some great history of stereophonic sound and shows that Bell Labs in USA … Read more Blumlein Videos
I was looking for some more information about stereo microphone technique pioneer Alan Blumlein the other day, and stumbled across an interesting article from New Scientist magazine from way back in 1990, about the missing biography of Alan Blumlein. At the time, there was no available biography for the man who pioneered not only stereo … Read more Blumlein Biography
Ambisonics has been around for decades, but it seems like it is currently undergoing a resurgence in popularity, with a number of ambisonic sound effects libraries going on sale recently, and more interest in it for Virtual Reality productions. An endorsement of that is that Google have created Omnitone, which is “a Javascript implementation of … Read more Google Omnitone
Hellbringer are a great local heavy metal band who I have worked with on a few recordings (well, all of them to at least some degree). I recorded and mixed their 2nd full length album which is due to be released soon, and the first review is in, coming from Marco Stebich on the Voices … Read more Hellbringer Album Review
Pro Tools Expert has been publishing some great posts discussing the process of conforming and re-conforming audio post sessions in Pro Tools. Here are the links to parts 1 to 3: http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2016/7/1/pro-tools-conforming-and-re-conforming-in-audio-post-production-part-1 http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2016/7/1/pro-tools-conforming-and-re-conforming-in-audio-post-production-part-2 http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2016/7/1/pro-tools-conforming-and-re-conforming-in-audio-post-production-part-3
Zach Poff is a Digital Media Artist, Educator, and Maker of Things. On his website he has some great resources including some DIY projects (I have used his info on the Alex Rice Piezo Preamplifier before). Zach has a couple of interesting pieces of software, including a Soundscape Composer which looks cool, but I haven’t used, and … Read more Pitch Playground
Ever wondered what a Hollywood film budget looks like? Website The Smoking Gun has some interesting resources including a copy of the budget for M Night Shyamalan’s film “The Village”. The budget comes to over $70 million US dollars. According to IMDB, the gross box office income for the film came to over $110 million. … Read more The Village Film Budget