You may have noticed there haven’t been many new articles on the site recently. The blog isn’t dead. I’ve just been on a bit of a sabbatical from writing about field recording. I have many articles nearing completion, and I’m excited to share them with you when I return.
I haven’t stopped thinking about field recording and sound effects while away from the site, though. So, I was quite excited when I was kindly invited to share those thoughts with the gentlemen from the A Sound Effect podcast.
Last year I had completed an indie sound fx library search engine website, Sound Effects Search. A Sound Effect’s Asbjoern Andersen asked me my thoughts on the state of indie sound bundles on the inaugural episode after adding over 800 collections to the new search engine.
The team had the interesting idea to check in on the concept, one year later. So, last month they graciously asked me my impressions of community sound bundles now. I sat down with Christian Hagelskjaer From, who served up some intriguing questions. In the podcast we share ideas about how the sound clip landscape has changed, and what that means. What I especially liked about Christian’s questions was that they were aimed towards helping new people contribute packages with fresh angles and ideas.
That gave me an opportunity to ramble on about one of my favourite subjects: how sound pros can move beyond stats and tech specs to create exceptional sound libraries. It was interesting that the discussion moved away from a report to an exchange of ideas of how sound pros can share meaningful sound clips with the community.
Do you capture field recordings or create sound libraries? If so, you may find the podcast interesting. It’s my hope that the questions will do for you what they did for me: to consider how I can capture and share more meaningful field recordings the next time I press “record.”
Check out Episode 3 of the A Sound Effect Podcast.
Read more on the A Sound Effect blog post.
My thanks to the A Sound Effect team for inviting me to be a part of their podcast.
To stay in touch, receive free updates by email newsletter or RSS feed. | Follow on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or SoundCloud.
