Category Archives: Audio

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SoundCloud and VeriCorder Join Forces on Sound Editing App for iPhone, iPod Touch

SoundCloud, a site for uploading music to the Web and VeriCorder, makers of advanced sound and video editors for mobile devices, have combined forces. more »

Posting Predators at Troublemaker Studios

F&V took a look inside post-production on Predators by talking to editor Dan Zimmerman and re-recording mixer/dialogue editor Brad Engleking about living up to Robert Rodriguez's mantra - at Troublemaker, filmmaking takes place "at the speed of thought." more »

Production Sound 2009

As we 2009 comes to a close, I thought it would be useful to reflect on this year's products and innovations that affected production sound, and speculate on what 2010 and beyond might bring for our corner of the industry. more »

Hot House: Clatter&Din

Location, location, location: it’s a maxim in the real estate business…but in the creative arts? If you ask Peter Barnes, a principal at Seattle-based media creation company Clatter&Din, he’ll tell you how important location is to his business. He’s not … more »

Smartsound Sonicfire Pro 5

Recently, I reviewed a needle-drop version of Sonicfire Pro 5, but I didn’t get a chance to go to far into Sonicfire’s deeper feature set. In that review I went over the basic uses of the software, such as music/score … more »

Making Glee Sing on Fox

Glee has a split personality, says supervising sound editor John Benson, who spots the show at Technicolor Sound Services with co-supervising sound editor Gary Megregian and producer Alexis Martin. "The show is a constant contrast between the fantasy of the musical performances and the reality of a high-school drama," he explains, emphasizing that the two never overlap. That makes the transitions from reality to fantasy and back as critical to the show's audio as the music itself. more »

The 2009 Emmy Awards: A New Era for Music on TV?

Gone are the bassy “wocka, wocka, wocka” soundtracks of television past, though remnants of those early guitar-driven tracks still inform the brilliant parodies scored by Flight of the Conchords creators James Bobin, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Nominees Bobin, McKenzie … more »

Q+A: Alan Ett, CEO of AECG

The jazz saxophonist and composer, who began his television musical career playing for such sitcoms as Married with Children and Who’s the Boss?, is intent on giving editors and producers as many production music options as they can handle, including … more »

Keeping Audio In Sync – Wordclock Solutions

From time to time, I get a call from a customer who recorded audio-for-picture for a concert or reality show with "prosumer" audio gear using MetaCorder and wonder why their audio drifts when post-synced to picture. This article is an attempt to explain why recording audio for picture requires a high level of accuracy, often more than is available from prosumer audio gear, and ways to achieve it. more »

Hands-on with the Lectrosonics D4 Wireless System

Last month, Lectrosonics began shipping the D4 ' an all digital wireless audio transmitter/receiver system capable of 4 channels of wireless audio, with the following breakthrough features: more »