While playing at Prauge’s Výstaviště Holešovice Exhibition Hall, Radiohead handed out 50 Flip cameras to audience members to capture the show. The result is an edited concert film pieced together from the fans’ multiple angles. The film is currently available as a free download on their website now. Downloads range from HD quality to smaller more compressed formats and if you wish, you can can watch it on YouTube. I’ve posted one of the videos after the jump.
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Game Informer has posted a nice video with Rocksteady’s in house composer, Nick Arundel. He plays some of the pieces live and talks about other arrangements for the upcoming title. Check out the video after the jump.
What does it take to have a product be THX certified? I was reading over Engadget today and noticed a 2.1 Logitech system will be released for $150 and it has the THX certification badge. It made me completely skeptical. I’ll be honest, it boils down to my previous experiences with cheap Logitech products. So what does it take to get certified?
In an era where recording studio after recording studio is closing down, Electric Lady is doing well and historic engineer Eddie Kramer explains why. Jump through for a link to the New York Times article and an excerpt from the piece.
The super quiet Prius is adding an under the hood speaker to project audio that pitches based on speed. This will be an $150 option that can be toggled on and off to warn pedestrians about an approaching vehicle. Check out the video and take a listen. Mario’s in there too, picking up coins.
In this video you’ll hear Burtt get grilled by Attractions Magazine while he was in Florida attending Star Wars Celebration V. They’ll ask tough questions like whether he considers himself a Sith or Jedi. Or what about a Ewok or a Wookie? Who will he choose!? He also talks about Wall-E and reusing sound effects across multiple films.
This is scaring the shit out of me. Synthtopia has posted a video they found of a sing along Barbie head being circuit bended. Check out the video after the jump if you’re into Barbie with a splash of Satan.
AudioOrchard has added their toolset to the cloud and is letting users take pre-existing loops to compose songs. It’s super simple and fun to mess around with if you enjoy programs like Abelton or FL Studio.
The special edition Halo Reach console will ship with two unique sounds supposedly from the upcoming game. One sound will play when you eject the disc tray and the other will play when you power the console on. What are these sounds? Hit the jump to take a listen.
There have been a bunch of rumors floating around now about new interfaces that Avid will be announcing today. After the jump you can see pictures of some of them. There is also a new saturation plug-in called Heat being released.
The guys over at Gamespot have a discussion up with Russell Brower, Audio Director on Blizzard’s Starcraft 2. I’m acutally surprised with how long the interview is considering it’s just audio. Take the jump and have a read.
I got out to see Scott Pilgrim this weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you’re a video game/comic book nerd like I am you’ll probably feel the same way. Other than just plane sounding good, the soundtrack is filled with tons of subtle little audio gems like nostalgic sounds from Zelda and other 8-bit classic video games. Check out the film profile after the jump.
Universal Studios in Hollywood has given us a new attraction this summer in King Kong 360 3-D. A new ride that was developed with guidance from Peter Jackson and his famous New Zealand crew. Hit the jump for a video of the audio team discussing their efforts.
I’ll be on campus at Full Sail University this Friday the 13th talking with students about my experience in the industry. If you’re in the Winter Park/Orlando area come on by and chat with me and the development team from High Moon Studios.
A microphone was placed close upstream of the LHC collimator. Downstream of the collimator was the beam dump. The jaw of the collimator was moved into the path of the extracted LHC-type SPS beam. Once extracted, the full beam intensity was put onto one collimator jaw with transverse impact parameters between 1 mm and 5 mm. Such a test of robustness against shock beam impact was …
The Super 55 Special Edition Vocal Microphone features a satin black die-cast body, supercardioid polar pattern, vibrant red foam, and tailored frequency response for natural vocals and speech. Integrated, swivel stand mount is included. The Special Edition design and color scheme, combined with Shure durability and smooth audio quality, make this microphone ideal for any musician, collector, or audio enthusiast.
Editor’s Guild magazine has an article up talking with the world’s most interesting man, Randy Thom about his work on The Last Airbender. He talks about his mixing process and what M. Night Shyamalan wanted for the soundtrack. You can also read a little bio about his career near the end of the article.
Steven Guttenberg over at Audiophiliac has an article up where he pings Audyssey’s CTO and founder, Chris Kyriakakis about the proper way to use automated calibration setups for you’re home theater systems.
Synth Gear have got their hands on some really awesome pictures showing off Hans Zimmer’s home studio. Click on the images for larger versions. Me. Want. Now.
Since his propulsive start in the genre with such scores as “The Hunted,” “Timeline” and “Paparazzi,” Tyler’s innovative brand of adrenalin has been catching fire in Hollywood. It’s an ability to play every style of mayhem from swordfights to car chases and gut-busting punches, than scale up that excitement like one of those relentless musical builds to the big bang- or in Tyler’s case the furiously frenetic scores to three “Fast and Furious” pictures…
Howard Scarr, synth programmer for Inception talks about his recent work with Hans Zimmer and programming for the Access Virus, Roland V-Synth, Waldorf, U-He Zebra2. It’s refreshing to hear how modest he is towards his work and process.
The guys over at OSV have an interview up with the composers from Super Mario Galaxy 2.
In the following videos, Charles Scott talks about the synths he uses while working as the “resident music guy” for Bad Robot, J.J. Abrams’ production company.
Gordon Hempton is an Emmy Award-winning sound recordist who has spent the last 30 years trying to find and record the vanishing sounds of nature in an attempt to capture a disappearing sensory experience.
Each speaker horn has a conical flare and is 13 feet deep. The mouth of each front horn is 8 feet x 8 feet. At the throat, a JBL mid-range exponential horn with a pair of 2440 compression drivers delivers sound between 400 Hz and 6 kHz. An array of 30 Cerwin-Vega tweeters reproduces sound from 6 kHz to 20 kHz. Behind the mid-range horn are two 16-inch Empire woofers covering 15 Hz to 400 Hz. The left front and right front horns each …
I’ll be moving this week among other things so you’ll probably not find many updates until next Monday. I have a nice interview with David Stone (Predator, Gremlins, Spawn, Top Gun…and the list goes on) that I’m waiting to post until Designing Sound releases theirs. It’s a new feature I’ll be trying to publish however for this first one we happened to fall upon the weird coincidence that we both pinged the same historic sound editor at the same time. So there are some cross referencing questions …
Hey, guys! My name's Mike Niederquell and I established The Sonic Spread in February of 2010. Hopefully here you can find some neat articles you might have overlooked or missed throughout the audio community.
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