Field recordists need to stomp out dozens of problems in the wild: buzzing fridges, off-stage chatter, gear quirks, and much more. For those gathering sounds worldwide, there are other challenges, too. Asking directions to a state park to record birdsong isn’t easy if you don’t share a common language. I’ve picked up some language as […]
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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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Slating Metadata in the Cloud
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.
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Soundly Releases v2.1: New Metadata, Revised SRC, Easier Searching, More
Free metadata app Soundly continues to impress with their latest release, Soundly 2.1. Not long ago the folks at Soundly offered version 2.0 with a revamped design, online store, workflow, Pro Tools spotting, and shortcuts. It also added cloud support for library sharing, and more sounds for its in-app library. That was in October, 2017. […]
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The Reaper Blog: How to Use Metadata in Reaper
The Reaper Blog is well known as the go-to source for information about the popular editing app, Reaper. Reaper is complex software. It has a lot of power. Like any other sophisticated app, it takes a bit of time to understand well. I’ll admit being a bit overwhelmed when I first opened the app myself. […]
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Sound File Batch Conversion App Roundup
I’ve been experimenting with a new field recording technique lately: recording four audio tracks to a MixPre-6 with a bonus summed stereo mix paired with a few handheld portable recorders thrown in as backup. The result of these multi-channel field recording sessions? My external hard drive is running out of space. It’s true storage is […]
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