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Black Friday Sale: All Book Bundles 50% off for 48hrs

2017/11/22 Filed Under: Updates

Note: the sale has now concluded. Join our free newsletter to learn about future sales. Starting today, Creative Field Recording is having an early “Black Friday” sale on our e-Book combo packs. These bundles gather books about sound effects and sharing sound for a discounted price. Today’s 48-hour sale adds an additional 50% savings on […]

Sound FX Levels and Hearing

2017/11/15 Filed Under: Gear

What sound effects can your gear capture? Last week’s post presented a chart of decibel levels for common sound effects. The article explored how equipment selections affect capturing sound subjects at different loudnesses. The chart is revealing for other reasons, too. Of course, it shows the level of sound created by things around us. It’s […]

Sound Effects Decibel Level Chart

2017/11/01 Filed Under: Gear

I recently purchased some hi-fi earbuds for recreation listening when using my iPhone. While the headphones themselves are great, what I found particularly interesting was a flyer included in the headphones packaging. The flyer includes a chart that lists the decibel level (dB) of various sound effects. We’ve seen these charts before. This one’s a […]

A New How-To Series: Discover the Soundly Metadata App

2017/10/25 Filed Under: Updates

A few months ago I was invited by the kind folks at Soundly to write about their popular metadata and cloud-fx library app. I’ve written about the app before in a “first look” review. I also used the software in a “quick-start” guide to adding metadata to sound effect libraries. That was in the summer […]

Sound File Batch Conversion App Roundup

2017/10/18 Filed Under: Curation

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 […]

Sound Devices MixPre Chat: A New Tonebenders Podcast Episode

2017/10/11 Filed Under: Interview

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Tonebenders co-host René Coronado on their excellent field recording and sound design podcast. It was the second time I had the opportunity to appear there. A few years ago I was on the show chatting about sound effects mastering and databasing. This time, René and I chatted […]