Javier Zumer has a cool post up on his blog about Using Shotgun Microphones Indoors. I have been researching an idea that I have been hearing for a while: It’s not a good idea to use a shotgun microphone indoor. I want to check this question out and, eventually, make some tests. Here we go! Shotgun microphones The main goal to these devices is to enhance the axis captation … [Read more...]
Game Audio Rewind: 2010
Damian Kastbauer, writer of the audio implementation greats series has published an insane list of game audio links that he collected during the past year. Lots of very informative articles! Now that 2010 is closed out, I just wanted to take a second and round up a batch of links to various projects that I was involved with and get them all lumped into a 'splosion of game … [Read more...]
MIX Magazine – Sound for Picture: “True Grit”, “The King’s Speech” and “127 Hours”
MIX Magazine recently published several articles on sound for picture. Let's read: SFP: "True Grit" You never know what fascinating world directors Joel and Ethan Coen are going to visit. Their 2009 entry was the Oscar-nominated A Serious Manabout an introspective Jewish fellow in suburban Minneapolis in the late ’60s. The year before that brought us the wacky comic caper Burn … [Read more...]
Soundscalpel's Interviews with Ric Viers and JR Fountain
The guys at Soundscalpel have published two interviews on their articles section, one with Ric Viers (The Sound Effects Bible, Blastwave FX, The Detroit Chop Shop) and other with JR Fountain (Big Room Sound). Some sounds must be very difficult to record/create. Are there any particular sound effects you have had to make that stand out as problematic and what was involved in … [Read more...]
Tuesday Scatter Shots
Another week another round of scatter shots. The Golden Globes came and went silently, Dario Marianelli's work on "Atonement" won him best original score while Eddie Vedder nabbed a best orignial song globe for "Guarranteed" from "In to the Wild". I didn't post about "Atonement" so I was happy to find Q and A with Marianelli from November. I really dug the typewriter he … [Read more...]
Tuesday Scatter Shots
Media coverage momentum builds as award season approaches. Nominations trickle out as early as this Thursday with the Cinema Audio Society. For fun, I plan to have a few polls on the blog once the "bigger" nods are announced to let you guys vote on your favorites. Until then, below is this week's scatter shot of articles covering an array of film sound related topics. THE NEW … [Read more...]