Article By: Frank Bry Transient enhancement plug-ins are wonderful tools to have in a sound designer’s arsenal. They can be used to soften a sound or to make it balls to the wall, hard hitting intense. Explosion sounds really benefit from this type of process. If you have recorded explosions, you may already have discovered that live is much better than tape, or should I … [Read more...]
Dangerous Ambiences
Guest Contribution by Tim Prebble I suspect growing up in a very quiet location on a farm in the South Island of New Zealand may have something to do with it, but I feel I have always been very aware of ambient sound. I have vivid sound memories from childhood, of ambiences! Waking up before the birds and waiting for them… The sound of the wind in blue gum trees and the … [Read more...]
Triple Dose of Blog Posts
First up Rene Cornado has this great post about Quad Miking Dual MS: So instead of running more controlled experiments with regards to my quad setup, I ended up with a quick and dirty dual MS rig out in the field this past week. The rig consisted of a pair of schoeps CMC6 bodies with the Fig 8 capsule and the hypercardiod capsule making up the front portion, and a Line Audio … [Read more...]
FiRe 2 – Field Recorder
For a few weeks now I have been playing with Audiofile Engineering's field recorder FiRe 2. FiRe 2 is an app for iOS that is a recorder/audio editor/metadata editor/uploader in one. Facts from the Audiofiles themselves: FiRe 2 will again revolutionize what you expect from a portable recording application. FiRe was the first iPhone recorder to display an accurate audio waveform … [Read more...]
Stephan Schutze – A Week Chasing Planes
A week chasing planes Preparation, planning and the practical reality of location recording By Stephan Schütze Photography by Stephan Schütze and Anna Irwin- Schütze The following article is an excerpt from my book on various aspects of audio production. The excerpt specifically deals with the planning and the reality of an extended location recording trip. The trip in … [Read more...]
Making Of “Cars”, Boom Library’s Latest Release
 (Written by Tristan Horton and Axel Rohrbach of Boom Library) At Boom Library we like to take a category of sound and then completely go to town on it. A Cars library has been in on our hit-list for some time, but there have been so many car sounds recorded in the past - how could we push this even further, (beyond the obvious advantages of high-definition 24bit/96kHZ … [Read more...]
The Recordist’s Devil Dog
Frank Bry has released a new library called The Devil Dog. Introducing Dixie, a very special English Bull Terrier with an amazing vocal ability that is unlike anything I have every heard. She is special because she is deaf and cannot hear what comes out of her mouth. She is loved and cared for by some friends here in town and they graciously allowed me to come to their home and … [Read more...]