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
There are a couple of great resources that have been produced for us at European seminars over the last few years that allow you to compare various surround microphone arrays in blind listening tests. This one contains ambience recordings: http://www.hauptmikrofon.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=87 This one contains orchestral recordings: http://www.hauptmikrofon.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=58
Here’s an article suggesting why filmmakers really need to respect sound on location: http://www.raindance.org/6-ways-directors-screw-sound-editors/
I scored myself a Triton Audio FetHead for Christmas – pretty sweet present right. It is a little in-line phantom-powered mic preamp. The interesting thing about it is that it has a really high input impedance which is meant to work a treat with ribbon mics and some moving coil dynamic mics. I gave it … Read more First Impressions of the Triton Audio FetHead
Sound artist Diego Stocco made a short series of videos about the sound design process for DTS. It’s just short snippets, but shows some cool stuff: http://www.behance.net/gallery/DTS-Sound-Magician-Series/9925935 Stocco has made heaps of cool videos over the years of him making music with all sorts of stuff like trees and machinery.
Someone put me onto: http://www.bfxr.net/ It’s a nifty little tool for creating sound effects. Check it out.