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Slating Metadata in the Cloud

2018/07/11 Filed Under: Curation

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.

TODD-AO Updates Noise Reduction App Absentia with Plug-In, Yearly Updates

2018/07/04 Filed Under: Gear

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 […]

How to Sidestep the Field Recording Gear Gap

2018/06/13 Filed Under: Gear

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 […]

Update: Legal Pages Updates

2018/06/07 Filed Under: 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 […]

Sounddogs App Updates: Absentia and Desktop App News

2018/05/09 Filed Under: Gear

Pioneering sound sharing Web shop Sounddogs have quietly updated both of their two apps: the Absentia dialogue noise reduction tool, and their sound browsing desktop app. What’s new? Let’s look at both apps to see what’s changed and how this affects sound editors and field recordists.