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Field Recording Blogs, Daily Recipes of Sound in the "World Wide Web"

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Some days ago I was thinking about make this post, and due to the great material that is being generated in the last days, I decided to do so.

The Internet has changed the way we do a lot of things, and also provides a vast amount of information everyday. Sound designers and recordist also found a way to share his experiences and recording using blogs and social networks.

Recordists and Sound Designers not only record sound effects or just transfer a bunch of WAV files into a computer everyday. Beyond that, there’re many experiences and stories behind our recordings. I often look like a photographer’s work, “freezing moments” in time… with sound. And that is the daily work of this guys. I really enjoy to read all kind of stories and experiences behind the recording of specific environments or objects. That’s because I decide to make a list of “Field Recording Blogs” I read everyday, and you could love too. There you can find all kind of sound recording tips, stories, resources and even videos such as this cool one of Nathan from Noise Jockey:

And here’s the list (In no particular order):



Also you can find fantastic stuff on the field-recording tag at Social Sound Design and groups such as Phonography and Nature Recordists.

If you’re a sound designer or recordist or just someone who love to record sounds everyday, and you’ve been thinking to start a blog or something like this, don’t be afraid and let’s create it! I’ll be creating one too to share my experiences and stories.

An to every sound magician who share his recordings everyday: Thanks and keep this amazing work! If you own a blog of this kind and wnat to be in this list, just tell me and I’ll be happy to add you there.

Comments

  1. Thanks for listing my website, Everyday Listening! Field recording is not my main focus, but it is definitely an important part. This looks like a great list.

  2. Thanks to you, Hugo! I know you’re not mainly focused on “Field Recording” but I found you’re website very cool for the list due to those great stories you post there.

  4. Thanks for the shout out! Killer list man! Always looking for new sound blogs to read, and you added a few to my list today.

    Thanks for your work!

  6. thanks for the post, very awsome list ive been starting to add friends working with sound as well as sound artist who post regularly on the side of my site so its cool to see this list, thanks again.

  7. Many thanks to you guys! Keep the great work! We can learn a lot from each other. The key is collaborate between us!

  9. Miguel, thanks for putting this list up, it’s been a while since I’ve updated my Google reader :-)

    Also thanks so much for the {sound + design} & Social Sound Design mentions!

    Keep up the fab work on DS!

  10. Great information and I know that a lot of us do a lot of our own recording at home. One of the greatest thing that I learned is going to a Recording Studio and use there rack gear to get a final touch of my recordings. Great Place if you are in Nashville is 16ton studios

  13. Wow, another blog and resource for the “snapshot” recordist. It opens up a whole new world for people who are generally in the studio (getting the famous “studio tan”)

  14. Doing your own field recordings can be invaluable if you are out for quality. The results are often a lot better, than what you get on commercial sample cds. And it’s a lot of fun, too!

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