Goro Koyama is a Toronto based foley artist and native of Japan. He won an MPSE for his work on Blade Runner 2049 and you can hear more of him in the upcoming film, Creed II. Goro recently travelled to New York City to perform foley live at the Japan Society for 450 people. With the theme of this month being inversion, I asked Goro if he could speak to us about the inverse … [Read more...]
Interview: John Altmann on recording airplanes – Part 2
DS: What are some of the airplanes that you've recorded? JA: Mostly World War II planes, and that usually happens two ways. Either I go to an air show and record them as best as conditions will permit. On other occasions I would just call the owner of a plane. Like Lefty Gardner, he had this beautiful twin engine P-38. He regularly performed at air shows. The Nazis called it … [Read more...]
Interview: John Altmann on recording airplanes – Part 1
John Altmann spent 20 years as a recording engineer, recording local San Francisco Bands and running his own studio in San Francisco, John Altmann Recording. He's also the owner of Aircraft Records and has spent the last 36 years recording airplanes. DS: Hi … [Read more...]
Flip the Phase
We decided to challenge ourselves a little this month by making our topic one that's open to some pretty wide interpretations...inversion. We could talk about the technical side of inversion, how it's the backbone of fighting induced noise in the "balanced" cables we use to run audio from one place to another, but there are more interesting interpretations for it. Maybe you … [Read more...]