During the last two articles we explored explored a theme: is it possible to be inspired when shackled to the technical demands of gathering sound effects? The first week’s post suggested there is potential to be creative when using highly sophisticated equipment in the field. The last article shared ways to inject creativity within the […]
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How to Embed Creativity into Your Sound Effects – Part 2
You rip apart the shrink wrap and pull your new audio recorder out of the box. You power it up. You flip through the menus and apply the settings. You string lengths of cables to a dozen microphones. Each microphone is wiggled into Rycotes and spun onto stands. Their position is adjusted and tweaked. Then […]
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How to Embed Creativity into Your Sound Effects – Part 1
Years ago, after posting on this site for a year and a half, an email from future HzandBits sound library owner and A Sound Effect podcast co-host Christian Hagelskjær From inspired me to do something I hadn’t previously considered: to write a book about field recording. That summer, I locked myself in a room and […]
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How to Kill Field Recording Frustration
It's a running joke between my brother and I: he's always found himself living in places with too much noise and I'm trying to find places with a lot of it.
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The Inspiration for Field Recording: The Art
Why do field recordists capture sound effects? The last post revealed that many sound pros record audio for the chase: they gather sounds for a specific purpose, or to claim a technical achievement. They use their skill to preserve these sounds. And, for others, they gather audio to amplify their experience of the world around […]
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The Inspiration for Field Recording: The Science
Over a year ago I began the “A Month of Field Recording” series with the hope that it would help new field recording fans choose gear more easily. Would equipment selections from the featured field recordists share insight on how to slice through the endless kit options and choose kit more simply? Through the generosity […]
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