Here’s a nicely produced video that lets the viewer sit in at the Sony lot while John Elg conducts Walter Murphy’s composition.  Click through for the video.

Capturing the sound and the vibe of the locations around town where the show is shot is paramount, which means there is a heavy reliance on production sound. A number of veterans of The Wire are involved on Treme’s sound team, including supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Andy Kris, supervising sound editor/ADR chief Jennifer Ralston and [...]

Mark Kilborn likes dynamic range.  He thinks you should too.  Hit the jump and read on why he and his team tried their best to incorporate it into their latest release Singularity and avoid being a participant in the growing loudness wars in video games.

I made it out to see Predators tonight.  The soundtrack was pretty decent although the theater I was in didn’t sound the greatest.  One thing you can rest assured will be heard is updated sound design for the “preda-vision” and vocal clicks.  They did a great job at those.  After the jump I’ve posted a [...]

Develop magazine talks with Black Rock Studio’s Audio Director, Steve Emney and Audio Programmer, Andy Hutchings about their work on the explosive racer Split/Second.

Many of the creepy sounds created for Singularity are just recordings of ordinary things that are used in effective ways. Sometimes all it takes is a little player imagination to make players feel tense. For example, under the right circumstances, even the innocent bell-like music of a child’s toy can be a fearful thing. Most [...]

During this sit down with Town Hawk (what?) Trent Reznor expresses his opinion on record labels, releasing music for free and he also talks about how Kiss, Pink Floyd and Ministry influenced him to leave the corn fields of Pennsylvania to become one of the most popular industrial/electronic acts ever.   Check it out after the [...]

Over Loud (makers of Breverb) are dealing away with the iLok hardware.  Personally, I haven’t had much issues with them but that’s probably because I am an in-house designer and don’t travel to different setups often.  What is Over Loud’s solution?  Well if you connected to the internet all you have to do is enter [...]

I know it’s been a while since the last post but hey, cut me some slack, I was visiting family in Michigan over Independence Day.  Anyways, check this out!  Could this possibly be scientific evidence of a poltergeist knocking!?