Handmade Parade (and Amplifiers)
This Saturday Calrec is flinging open its doors to a local hackerspace group called Bridge Rectifier to host a free electronic engineering workshop.
Hackerspaces are community-operated spaces for people with an interest in technology, electronics, computers, open source and much more. At this Calrec-sponsored workshop, participants will build a small portable audio amplifier that runs from [...]
Man Of Steel in your ears in DTS Headphone:X
The deluxe soundtrack for Man of Steel, by the legendary Hans Zimmer, was released late last week, and it’s the first album to feature DTS Headphone:X, a new audio technology which creates a surround sound experience through regular headphones.
The Man of Steel soundtrack simulates the 11.1 surround sound of Hans’s personal studio; DTS engineers created [...]
Sound Tourism
Perhaps you are having difficulty choosing where to go on holiday this year?
Cheap air travel has opened up the world to us, and the options are as limitless as your imagination. Beach holidays, city breaks, camping, backpacking in Nepal, swimming with dolphins in Puerto Vallarta, noodle weaving in Rim Tan, bird watching with Bill Oddie, they’ve [...]
What is Sound Design?
When Luigi Russolo, the Italian Futurist painter and composer, performed in front of a live audience in 1914, the performance inspired widespread audience unrest, riots, violence and a massive amount of general harumphing. The legend reads that Luigi wasn’t at all surprised by this reaction, the minx.
Exactly 100 years ago he invented a series of mechanical synthesizers, [...]
People
Eyeborg enables artist to hear colour
Due to a rare eye condition, achromatopsia, Belfast-born artist and musician Neil Harbisson, who now resides in Catalonia, is only able to see the world in black and white.
However, using a device called an “eyeborg”, a cybernetic third eye that has been strapped to his head since 2004, he is able to detect 360 [...]
Surround
Man Of Steel in your ears in DTS Headphone:X
The deluxe soundtrack for Man of Steel, by the legendary Hans Zimmer, was released late last week, and it’s the first album to feature DTS Headphone:X, a new audio technology which creates a surround sound experience through regular headphones.
The Man of Steel soundtrack simulates the 11.1 surround sound of Hans’s personal studio; DTS engineers created [...]
Education
Handmade Parade (and Amplifiers)
This Saturday Calrec is flinging open its doors to a local hackerspace group called Bridge Rectifier to host a free electronic engineering workshop.
Hackerspaces are community-operated spaces for people with an interest in technology, electronics, computers, open source and much more. At this Calrec-sponsored workshop, participants will build a small portable audio amplifier that runs from [...]
Industry News
Audio considerations in a 4K world
Amid the inevitable dominance of 4K, UltraHD (UHD) and 3-D picture talk at today’s Beyond HD Masters conference at BAFTA, issues surrounding the production, post, distribution and, even more so, delivery of audio for 4K productions have been poking through.
The different types of capture systems, techniques and microphone arrays for channel-, scene- and object-based audio. [...]
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Handmade Parade (and Amplifiers)
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Man Of Steel in your ears in DTS Headphone:X
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Sound Tourism
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What is Sound Design?
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Audio considerations in a 4K world
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Kevin:
Hi Tim, I missed that post, thank you for adding this. The Audioboo website is f -
Tim Goodyer:
It's worth looking into the Soundmaps that are run in the UK and US too. I l -
Steve Jones:
I have a veritable museum at Aerial Studios in Wrexham, charting (most of) the a -
Colin:
Newsreader on BBC Five Live just revealed that this year's Swedish Eurovision bu -
Ben Shirley:
I visited earlier this year and was given a tour and all the Atmos demos and it
