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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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’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 [...]

Observing a star up close (putting aside for a moment how you’d get there or withstand its heat) is probably like sitting beside an enormous silent fire. Sounds—which are simply pressure variations in a medium such as air or water—can’t propagate in the vacuum of space, so the roiling surface of a star would make [...]

Create Digital Music has a nice post about the Lego NXT-606 drum machine that was created by a hobbyist who goes by the call sign of…Peter.  After the jump you can see a video of the device and a link to CDM’s site where they have a quick interview with the creator.

Scientists assembled chains of spheres into an array and precompressed them so that an acoustic signal traveling through them with a fixed phase incident would experience specific amounts of phase delay at certain points. This way, the waves traveling through each chain could be directed to convene at a particular point and form a powerful [...]

I personally have never succumbed to the terror and warm presence that this theoretical experience could potentially bring.  It’s an interesting theory however I have never actually heard of anyone losing control.  I’ve only felt somewhat nauseous and received headaches from prolonged experiences.