This week, iZotope is teasing the forthcoming release of Ozone 7, plus RX5 (their awesome noise reduction suite) is out now. Ever wondered what a close-up view of a needle tracking on a piece of vinyl might look like? Well,  wonder no more! Interestingly, during this video, the guy talks about a format I’d not … Continue reading "Episode 150 – Working on a movie"

This week, Rob Bettla sent me a link to an interesting product designed to augment our audio reality in real time. You can see the company website or their promo video. The quote I was trying to remember was from Benjamin Franklin… “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, … Continue reading "Episode 149 – Learning new stuff"

I have seen, over the last week or two, a couple of different references to an issue which pivots on the holy trinity of Windows 10, FAT32-formatted removable media, and files with a .wav extension. One instance was at Pro Tools Expert, and the other was at Sound-on-Sound. Seems that the issue is not affecting … Continue reading "Episode 148 – Stoic audio donkeys"

This week, I’ve just returned from a 3 week holiday in Borneo (photos are here if you’re interested). While I was there, I had a couple of interesting acoustic experiences which I ended up recording on my trusty little Tascam DR-05 handheld recorder. After I recorded the podcast, I got an e-mail back from Gunung … Continue reading "Episode 147 – The sounds of Borneo"

This week, the reasons behind the month-long break, further discussion on the pyramids, dimensions of the King’s Chamber, musical acoustics, the speed of sound, the Golden Ratio in music, part 4 of Rob’s epic e-mail concerning binaural recording and playback, the video that Rob referenced from The Verge, a discussion on the use of binaural … Continue reading "Episode 146 – Zombie binaural ears & ASMR fetish tribes"

Apologies for the late post. This whole Easter thing has got my days all mixed up! This week, Alan Blumlein honoured (somewhat belatedly) for his contributions to audio and various technologies. To this day, the Blumlein Pair is still my favourite mode for recording stereo. So, think you can tell the difference between 16 bit … Continue reading "Episode 145 – Our unbearable incredulity about the future"

This week, I start off with an apology re: the sound of the last episode, why it happened, and what I’ve done to fix it. Steve Hope sent me off to look at Jaguar Audio Design, I saw a musical instrument project on Kickstarter which I thought was an interesting twist on a few different … Continue reading "Episode 144 – The Toy on Stage Effect"

This week, Bill Vencil wrote to tell us about his tape vs digital shootout. The videos he put together are available right here. Did you hear the one about the guy who placed his iPhone inside an acoustic guitar body and shot video of the resonance of the strings? No? Well, check out the cool … Continue reading "Episode 143 – Speech-to-text conversion"

This week, fun and games on two wheels. Feedback on episode 141 from Rowan Matthews, who mentioned Cloudlifters, a DIY kit from Seventh Circle Audio called the J99, and the Warm Audio WA76 compressor/limiter. Karel Weis chimed in about voiceover recording and wanted to know my approach. This was the image that Karel sent me … Continue reading "Episode 142 – Voice recording, and hi-res mobile audio"

I’m baaaaack! This week, re-launch #2, why re-launch #1 failed, my plans for SL and recording projects in 2015, gear lust, and the yumminess of analogue hardware. Some of the gear I’m talking about it this episode: AEA R84 AEA TRP AEA RPQ API 5500 Safe Sound Audio Dynamics Toolbox (discontinued) Focusrite VoiceMaster Pro (discontinued) Drawmer 1960 … Continue reading "Episode 141 – The state of play"