The Sound Collector
Here’s another nice short film from Canada. This one is cool and links our imagination with sound… https://www.nfb.ca/film/sound_collector
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Listen Short Film
This is an interesting short film from Canada on the topic of sound: https://www.nfb.ca/film/listen
Audio Developments in Unity 5
The audio engine for popular game engine Unity has been overhauled for version 5. The biggest development is an audio mixer much like DAW’s. This is likely to make things much easier and more intuitive for audio people to get stuck into the sound design and mix for games, without needing any coding knowledge. Here … Read more Audio Developments in Unity 5
Bird Sounds Website
The xeno-canto website is a home for the sharing of bird sounds from around the world. Pretty neat resource for bird nerds and nature sound recordists generally.
Vickii Cotter on Music Business Facts
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/
In Search of the Click Track
Here’s an interesting little site and web app that maps out tempos from popular songs: http://labs.echonest.com/click/
Virtual Compressors
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
Camera Simulator
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/
Dialogue Editing – Creating Fill Technique
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
Surround Microphone Arrays
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