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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Sounddogs App Updates: Absentia and Desktop App News
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.
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A New Future for Sound FX Libraries? Recognizing Creativity with Blockchain
A few years ago I asked my lawyer to help me write a new user license for my books and sound effects. While he was a copyright pro, he didn’t know much about sound fx libraries in particular. He was surprised at the lack of protection for sound collections. He asked me if I knew […]
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Update: Blog Direction and Design
Today’s article is a brief post about the blog itself. Regular articles will return with the next post.
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The Reaper Blog: How to Master Sound Effects
A few weeks ago I linked to an article from The Reaper Blog about using metadata in the Reaper editing app. Of course, adding metadata is one of the last steps before publishing field recordings. There are many steps before that, including sound effects mastering. That is why I was intrigued when reader Carlos tipped […]
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