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.
Vordio can use FCPX XML to create a Reaper project… http://vordio.net/ I generally use Pro Tools or Digital Performer for post projects, but I might use this as an excuse to give Reaper a go for post for a project. Otherwise people seem to use X2Pro to get FCPX projects into Pro Tools: http://www.x2pro.net Another … Read more FCPX to Reaper
Here’s a pretty clear explanation of using the “Synchronize Clips” feature in Final Cut Pro X: http://masteringfilm.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial-syncing-audio/
I have been investigating some ideas for mechanical methods of striking instruments for a sound art installation. Here is a link to a page showing a glock being programmed to be played using solenoids… http://www.thebox.myzen.co.uk/Hardware/Glockenspiel.html
This guy makes some interesting large scale sound art installations: http://www.zimoun.net/works.html
There is an interesting resource that shows the DR meter readings (DR stands for “Dynamic Range”) for loads of albums. The database was put together to educate people more about the loudness wars. Check it out here: http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/ It is arguable whether the DR type reading is still the best option now that LUFS and … Read more Dynamic Range Database
There is a pretty cool library of Creative Commons Impulse Responses maintained online by The University of York: http://www.openairlib.net/ Most of the impulses are shared with the Creative Commons Attribution and Share Alike license. Attributing credit when using an impulse response in a commercial project is rarely practical, but this resource is very useful nonetheless … Read more Impulse Responses
There are a bunch of interesting audio illusions that people can try. A couple of the main ones are binaural beats and the shepard tone. Binaural beats have a few uses including therapy, although they can also be harmful and cause fits in people who suffer from epilepsy apparently. Two tones are played that are … Read more Audio Illusions