Like many of you, I’ve been a long-time user of Cakewalk music production software. During the past few years the program’s just been getting better and better with each new release. The latest bundle, Cakewalk Pro Suite, includes Sonar 7, Project5 and the company’s two award– winning software synthesizers, Rapture and Dimension Pro.... »
There are three methods to decode Dolby Pro Logic II– encoded audio using a hardware-based workflow: with Holophone D-CODE; with an A/V receiver that has a built-in Dolby Pro Logic II... »
In this tutorial, the objective is to remove the unwanted noise without degrading the overall sound quality of the scene. Sounds that vary wildly in pitch are the most difficult to remove. Be mindful of your shooting environment and if you anticipate that a particular background noise will give you problems in post...... »
Three-time Emmy Award-winning re-recording mixer Rick Ash has joined Widget Post, Los Angeles. Ash, who won his most recent Emmy last year for his work on HBO Films’ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, arrives from Todd-AO where his credits include more than 100 feature films.
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Bertini is a veteran sound editor/mixer of numerous high-profile television shows, including all six seasons of HBO’s Sex In The City and the CW Network’s Life Is Wild. His specialty is automated dialogue replacement (ADR) and creating original sound effects.... »
Capturing the true essence of 5.1 surround sound is getting easier and less complex with each passing day. The demand for such recordings, to accompany HD music videos, is increasing as well, as virtually every home-theater receiver now enables viewers to hear the multichannel audio.... »
Groove Addicts’ new Groove Addicts Library contains unique themes that reach beyond standard genres. With more genre-within-genre specification, including a darktronica category, these tracks are available for download only.... »
Music 2 Hues has just completed a major renovation to its Web site, adding more than 1,000 music tracks and 500 SFX for instant online download in the download center’s third and final site-building phase.... »
KRK Systems launched the second generation of their industry-standard Rokit monitor. The second generation Rokit incorporates several technologies from the company’s VXT and E8B lines.... »
Recording and mixing audio on set for reality television is arguably the most challenging situations for a sound department. It takes the unpredictability of documentary shoots, multiplies that many times over with separate lines of action occurring simultaneously and then puts it all under a pressure cooker of time and budget constraints. ... »
Back in 2001, world leading studio microphone manufacturer Neumann unveiled its Solution-D generation digital microphones. These conformed to the new AES 42 data transmission protocol to allow its digital microphones to work in conjunction with digital workstations.
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Holophone, a leading manufacturer of surround microphones, has brought Dolby Pro Logic II® encoding technology and the portability of the company’s popular H4 SuperMINI to its larger mic models, the H2-PRO and H3-D, with the introduction of the Holophone N-CODE portable multi-channel encoder. ... »
The recent prolific growth of video games is drawing what some might regard as inevitable comparisons with the evolution of cinema, a putative convergence certainly reinforced by venture that just last year alone had action helmsman Jerry Bruckheimer joining forces with MTV’s games division and director John Woo collaborating with game-developer Midway to bring the Hard Boiled series from the screen to the console; a few years earlier techno-classic TRON became TRON 2.0, the game, and even Steven Spielberg has an office in Electronic Arts’ campus.... »
Blastwave FX developer of next-generation HD sound effects libraries, today announced the release of it’s flagship library, SONOPEDIA encyclopedia of HD sound effects. With 20,000 royalty-free HD sound effects ranging from Alligators to Zippers, SONOPEDIA is the first professional all-purpose HD sound effects library available to HD media producers.
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