Sine Language

This episode, the guys at MIT have managed to reconstruct audio from nothing more than video footage! Infrasonic sound, what it is, how it affects us, and its use in cinema, which got me talking about Mount Yassur, Izotope have just announced the forthcoming RX4, an update to their Emmy Award-winning audio restoration software, and … Continue reading "Episode 140 – Infrasonic sound"

This episode, Tom Ferguson (who is looking to digitise his vinyl collection) wrote to ask my thoughts on 19″ rack mountable flash recorders. He’s been looking at the Gemini DRP-1, which doesn’t look too bad (from the specs), although I did have a couple of concerns. Some alternate products I suggested he look at included: … Continue reading "Episode 139 – Flash recorders and Ozone"

This episode, a long-overdue response (and apology!) to an e-mail I received from Greg Anderson a couple of months ago, Greg mentioned Dolby Atmos, and Headphone:x, I also saw this a couple of weeks back: a guy who took a slice of a tree and played it like a piece of vinyl! I also received … Continue reading "Episode 138 – Channels, channels and more channels"

This week, Sine Language is brought to you by Bill Vencil! Bill asked me to talk about Crest Factor, what is it and what is its importance? He also wanted to know my thoughts on technologies like SoundCheck, which iTunes is now using to create playback-managed volume levelling. Will technolgies like this bring about the … Continue reading "Episode 137 – Crest factor"

This week, I’ve musing over some things that crossed my radar over the last couple of weeks. Joel, one of the Broadcast Tech’s at work recently posted about the Orban Omnia 9 on his facebook timeline. The Omnia 9 is designed to undo the damage done by excessive peak limiting at the mastering stage. Probably … Continue reading "Episode 136 – Loudness"

This week, Rob Bettla opened a huge can of worms regarding the apparently never-ending quest for improved video, while almost no progress seems to be hapeening in the area of improved audio quality. This led to a discussion of (count ’em!) 22.2 channel audio reproduction systems, ultra high def TV, Occulus Rift, these strange video … Continue reading "Episode 135 – The future of audio"

Happy new year, one and all! This week, an e-mail from Carlos in Venezula, asking about the state of the pro-audio industry in Australia, more hilarity from Rob Bettla, and Karel Weis (via Facebook) asked me to discuss mid-side decoding…. what it is, when and why we’d use it, and how to do it. As … Continue reading "Episode 134 – Mid-side processing"

This week, a follow-up e-mail from Rob Bettla, a quick discussion on televsiion audio levels (plus, here’s a few useful links for those who are interested…) ITU BS.1770 EBU R128 ATSC A/85 Wikipedia article on LKFS plus a whole page of useful links. Then, I discussed the video that made the rounds over the week … Continue reading "Episode 133 – Sidechain compression"

First off, thanks for all the love! It’s good to be back! After ep #131, I received an epic e-mail from Rob Bettla, who pointed me toward (amongst other things), this awesome video of balls of red hot nickel being dropped into water. The sound it makes is fascinating! I came across an article on … Continue reading "Episode 132 – Outdoor dialogue in the studio"

Yeah baby… I’m baaack! This week, WHY I’m back, why we should stay on the bus (here’s the link that inspired this episode’s title), and an invitation for topics.   All contributions gratefully received!