Want to get the most bang out of your field recording buck? Would you rather delay shelling out thousands of dollars for late-career elite sound gear? The last post shared ideas for improving existing kits to help grow skills, expand technique, and capture better sound without breaking the bank. That article followed firm guidelines to […]
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How to Sidestep the Field Recording Gear Gap – Equipment Hacks
How can you improve your field recording equipment? What’s the best way to choose better sound recording gear? Do you want to advance from recording chaotic city sounds to capturing crisp wilderness atmospheres? Want to know the most sensible choice to get the job done? It’s not easy for people new to field recording to […]
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Slating Metadata in the Cloud
Last week I saw news website Designing Sound highlight an article from 2015. In that post, sound designer and field recordist Stosh Tuszynski of Web shop Collected Transients identified a disconnect between recording sounds, detailing them on location, and transferring that info into sound library metadata.
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TODD-AO Updates Noise Reduction App Absentia with Plug-In, Yearly Updates
Today TODD-AO released an update to their Absentia noise reduction app. I’ve mentioned Absentia DX (ABDX) a few times here on the site. An earlier article explored if the app’s noise reduction tools could fix damaged field recordings. While the app was designed to repair dialogue, I found its hum removal tool in particular was […]
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How to Sidestep the Field Recording Gear Gap
Imagine: you are hiking at dusk and something makes you pause. In the distance, a haunting warble begins. It swells and spreads across the still lake. The bird cry grows, filling the wilderness with a mournful wail. Eventually the loon’s song diminishes into a fragile silence. You remained rooted in place, afraid that the slightest […]
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Update: Legal Pages Updates
Just a brief post today: we’ve updated our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use language to more clearly illustrate how we comply with the new European GDPR privacy requirements and “right to be forgotten” rules. In the same spirit, we’ve also added a cookies banner at the base of the site. View the new Privacy […]
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