Sound design and field recording fans awoke Monday to a sad announcement. Editors Jack Menhorn and Shaun Farley wrote they are putting the pro sound news website into “hibernation.”
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Cities and Memory Launches ‘Sounding Nature’ Collaborative Field Recording Project
Cities and Memory has just revealed a new field recording project: Sounding Nature.
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Metadata App News: Soundly, Basehead, Soundminer, Sounddogs, & Resonic
Field recordists often spend a dozen hours to successfully capture just a few scant minutes of audio. But what is such a hard-won recording worth, if that sound can’t be found afterwards? That’s why embedding accurate, unique, and descriptive sound fx metadata is an essential skill for field recordists. To get this done, they use […]
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How to Avoid Noise when Recording Nature Sounds – Interview with Thomas Rex Beverly
It’s a strange paradox. The most beautiful natural landscapes can produce an insurmountable problem for field recordists: noise. Yes, visiting tundra, grasslands, or moors provide stunning vistas. As we’ve seen in previous articles in this series, many of these places are quiet. They push field recording gear to its limits. The result? The tranquility of […]
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How to Avoid Noise when Recording Nature Sounds – Interview with George Vlad
The previous post posed a vital question: how can a nature sound recordist avoid noisy field recordings? As we saw in that article, struggling with noise is as difficult as it is common. George Vlad has travelled across Africa and Europe recording the sound of forests, deserts, wetlands, and more. He shares his field recordings […]
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How to Record Quiet Nature Sounds: The Threat of Noise
It’s one of the greatest challenges for new field recordists: how do you record high-quality nature sounds? More people are wondering. Compared to only a decade earlier, field recording has become more accessible. Once the realm of thousands of dollars of kit requirements, field recording gear now can be bought for as little as $100. […]
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