You’re excited. You’ve returned home after days of recording long, evocative field recordings. But… what’s next? How do you perfect these raw sound effects? How do you record and edit hours of field recordings? What’s the best way to edit the sounds you’ve retrieved from the wilderness? How do you organize your sound clips, and […]
Continue Reading Dutch software company Audio Ease has updated some of their popular software. Over the past two months I’ve received invitations to download latest versions of Barbabatch, Snapper, and Altiverb. In most cases, this brings MacOS Catalina 64-bit compatibility to the apps. However, there are some intriguing changes and new features.
Continue Reading Vehicle sound effects are some of the most difficult field recordings to pull off. Doing so requires having an iron grip on the location, operating (and maintaining) dozens of microphones and recorders, a pro driver, and of course impeccable technique. It’s a tricky balancing act and equipment trouble, interruptions, engine failure, and intrusive sounds are […]
Continue Reading To some degree, the craft of field recording has become easier in the past decade. Technology has become so refined that recording any sound with reasonably good quality is a simple matter of flicking a switch and pressing a button. Is your cat groaning strangely? Hear a thunderstorm approaching? Both can be captured with very […]
Continue Reading Field recording is often thought only as audio itself. It can be more, though. Many field recordists add context to the sound they capture to bring more meaning to just the audio alone. One elegant example is the World Sounds website. The home to field recordist Colin Hunter’s international soundscapes, World Sounds pairs pristine field […]
Continue Reading Flight times and making connections. Baggage allowance. Security check. Jet lag. There are enough hassles with travel itself. Compound that by adding audio recorders, microphones, memory cards, and powering strategies, and it would be understandable for any field recordist to want to keep things simple while capturing world sounds and field recording. Pablo Valverde has […]
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