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Contract examples

Can anyone provide some basic contract examples that you work under? I am in the difficult position of exiting an internship. I am at the point where I am just doing work, not sitting in on sessions or actively learning. So I feel like I should be…
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Feedback on sound challenge webpage.

I am creating a page on my site that is designed to get people to take a sound I recorded and manipilate it into something new. Then post the new manipulated sound for others to hear. I think it would be a good way to get feedback on your work and…
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Baby voice-over

I currently work on an animation project involving 6-to-18-month-old babies. The context is a bit special because we follow the realistic evolution of several babies until they say their first word. My first attempt was to work with real babies'…
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How to approach M&E Mixing

I'm curious how other people do M&E mixing. I've never actually had to mix an M&E before as it was all done for me in the mixer routing in ProTools (I also had totally clean dialogue as the shows were all animations). Now I'm doing a live-action…
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Question of ownership

When working on a film, who owns the raw recordings that were made for that film? Since the answer to every question is "well that depends" then I will pre-emptively ask how common is it for the recordist to retain ownership versus the employer? …
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Why do microphones underperform at distances?

I recently attempted to record a meeting for a project taking place in a somewhat noisy cafeteria. Unfortunately, I discovered that phones have tremendous difficulty picking up human voice over background noise at even just 6 feet away. This…
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"Underwater" sound tricks!? How do you make it sound underwater-y

Hey folks, You can skip the italicized section if you're in a hurry - that's background for the question. I'm working on the second iteration of an art game. It's a cool project, you should check it out on my site (www.wraughk.com, navigate to…
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Finding Audio Work - where do you look?

Hey guys and gals, I was just curious to know where everyone looks for sound work online. Craigslist,Monster jobs, Linkdin, Mandy? I just signed up with this site, www.elance.com Seems very legit, people post work they need done for various…
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How are audio tracks finalized in the cinema industry?

I was wondering how exactly audio is finalized in the cinema industry. Are they rendered in stems or a in a single audio track and then imported in a video editing software (Final Cut, Premiere, Media Composer) for a final re-rendering? If yes, are…
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Automating a Dialogue/Foley Reverb

I've got a scene I'm working on where a couple characters are having a conversation and the camera is in front of them walking with them tracking them as they walk through a whole office. The scene is one shot while they talk, and they walk through…
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How to keep audio-fequency noise from my refrigerator out of my audio gear?

I recently replaced my refrigerator with a brand new LG model LTCS20220W. The fridge is silent, but when it is running, my guitar amplifier is picking up a 4,500Hz signal which is driving me crazy. I used a spectrum analyzer on the output from my…
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In general, what's a good dB level at which to normalize my audio files?

I'm a musician who extracts a very wide variety of audio samples from different sources. I then layer and arrange these samples together within music software to orchestrate songs. When I save these extracted samples, I like them to be at roughly…
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How reliable is Plural Eyes for syncing?

I'm on a documentary where we're shooting on double system. For practical reasons we're mostly not clapping, and I'm worried for the poor editor... We're shooting on a few 5Ds and I'm wondering how good of a job Plural Eyes software will do in…
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"diagonal clipping" in recent pop music productions?

Thanks to the loudness war, most modern music productions suffer from bad audio quality, distortion and clipping. However, recently I noticed that some audio productions suffer from something I would call "diagonal clipping". This kind of clipping…
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What bag do you use for your field recorder?

When I bought my Sound Devices 722 I also bought a purpose built Camrade bag for it: http://www.camrade.com/products-page/audio/other/ab-sd-01 which seems good in terms of being waterproof, but I'm planning my Samoa record trip & am wondering if…
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