Tuning Toms with Steve Albini
I love Steve Albini’s approach to teaching sound subjects, and here is a good video from his Electrical Audio YouTube channel explaining tom drum tuning approaches.
Resources
Writing and Sound Design
Essa Hansen, a Sound Designer at Skywalker Sound, has written an article discussing what she has learnt about writing from her sound design work, referencing Walter Murch’s ideas about embodied sound and encoded sound. It is worth a read if you are interested in either sound design or creative writing, and you can read the … Read more Writing and Sound Design
Console Simulator for Education
SAE have developed a computer based simulation for an Audient ASP4816 mixer which looks like it could be a useful tool for teaching people signal flow for audio mixers. Check out details at:
Roland 808303.studio
Yuri Suzuki, The Design Museum and Roland have created the 808303.studio, which is a free online music creation tool based on the TR-808 drum machine and TB-303 bass synthesiser. It’s a fun way to spend some time creating some beats: https://808303.studio/
A Brief History of Recording The Orchestra
Sound on Sound Magazine has posted up an article that includes some great info and images about the history of recording orchestras. Check out the great first image! https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/recording-orchestra
Intro to Field Recording Techniques Videos
Back in March I made a series of videos that discuss different approaches and techniques to field recording. The videos tie in with a sound design task that uses these sounds, but the sound design specific videos are for my students at Canberra Institute of Technology only. The field recording videos are aimed at people … Read more Intro to Field Recording Techniques Videos
Converting Video files for Pro Tools
For years I have been converting video files into DNxHD where necessary for working in Pro Tools as I have previously written about in my blog. For users of Mac OSX Catalina however processes have needed to change as 32 bit QuickTime movies are no longer supported properly. In theory since Pro Tools 2020.3 you … Read more Converting Video files for Pro Tools
The Sounds of Springfield
The Sound of Springfield YouTube channel provides short analyses of the sound design used in The Simpsons. A fun way to help teach people about some of the terms and techniques of sound design. The most recent video explains diegetic versus non-diegetic sound and might be a useful reference for some students:
Netflix Open Content
Netflix have some content available online under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. The idea is to share some reference resources for content that uses cutting edge technologies for content creators. Recently they have released the files for Sol Levante, a 4K HDR Atmos anime short, including the ProTools Final Mix Session and Mastered Session. Get … Read more Netflix Open Content
OBS and Zoom on a Mac
OBS is a handy, free open source video recording and streaming management software option. I used it for a livestream recently, and I need to manage some livestreams over Zoom webinars very soon, so I just thought I’d get my head around getting video into Zoom via OBS in case I need to use it, … Read more OBS and Zoom on a Mac