For anyone that has spent time in Manhattan, the city has its own sonic roar that makes it uniquely identifiable as New York. Pro Sound Effects has released a library, NYC Ambisonics, which embodies this idea and really inspired me as a designer to start using and recording my own ambiences. As a sound designer, traveling has the added benefit of providing the opportunity to … [Read more...]
Reaper: Editing Ambisonics via iZotope RX 6
As and editor, I'm constantly sending files over to RX for general or specific improvements. One of the biggest challenges I was facing until recently was that of figuring out a way to clean up an ambisonics recording. If you try to send a 3-channel or more audio file to it, RX will prompt you with the following warning: "RX does not support that many channels". So how can that … [Read more...]