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 [...]

I have to say I was a little inspired after posting the dated video of Ben Burtt.  Seeing him sitting behind an analog console, playing back source material for the Millennium Falcon from a tape machine made me think of all the great material that hasn’t been cataloged or talked about in the past.  With [...]

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 [...]