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(UK) Sidestepping into film sound... a possibility?

I've been working in audiobooks for a little over ten years and, to be frank, I've had my fill. There's also the matter of cash flow. The family pot seems to have a hole in it and my career is going nowhere! Back when I was still green, I earned a…
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552 Mixer or 702 Recorder? (Sound Devices)

Background: My main focus is sound effects recording. A very close second at the moment is onset recording (no huge productions though). I own a Fostex FR2 but it is slowly dying on me. It won't switch off unless I cut it's power supply, and it has…
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5.1 Vs. 7.2 (Surround Sound System)

I fairly learned about the 5.1 studio and how you go about mixing it, but on Tv i heard about 7.2 surround sound system and i'm wondering are the dynamics the same or is there something different about it?
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Boom op clothing

I have some possible production sound work coming up where I would be booming. What type of clothes would be the best to wear? Baggy clothes? Tight clothes? I vaguely remember going over something like that in a class back in college, but I can't…
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What do you know about people who design audio equipment?

I'm just a student trying to figure out what to do with my life. While sound design is fascinating, I'm also interested in designing the equipment that makes sound design possible. Does anybody know how one gets into that sort of thing? Are any…
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Mixing Midside Mid and Side Brands

I've seen some people say that you shouldn't mix brands when dealing with midside, but I've also seen people say it doesn't matter. I just bought an MKH30 and am looking to pick up a hyper/super cardioid for the mid. Logic would say to get the Senn…
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An Education in Storytelling

As I will be learning mixing every day from here on out, and quite possibly won't ever stop learning, I have a question regarding Sound Design and Mixing: Time and again, in most of the interviews and articles I have read, I have come across a…
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What makes a sound funny?

Title says all...
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workflow: spotting with the client

Of course every project and every client is different, but I'd like to know what tools/techniques people use when spotting projects with clients? As a general definition here, lets define spotting as watching down a video or film project with the…
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How do I make ETSI (European) dial sounds on instruments?

For example, dial tone, DTMF, busy tone, ringing tone, etc.
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Pro Tools HD 9 vs Nuendo 5

I'm building a surround mixing room over the next month and I am trying to decide between Protools HD2 and Nuendo 5. The room will primarily be for commercial work and sound design (not mixing) for indie movies and feature films. We will also have…
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Which DAW do you use?

I'm just wondering, which DAW or software is the best and cheapest for designing sound. I'm working in a studio, and we use Steinberg Nuendo on a PC. It's quite good and comfortable software. You can manipulate the events (volume, fades, you can…
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One clip becomes louder when merging clips in Adobe Audition

I have a sound recording of a Zoom meeting that I am using for a podcast. I have separate tracks for the hosts, but for this person I sadly only have the Zoom recording, which is doable but isn't great. So I would like to make it a little bit louder…
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What is the best WAV encoding and why?

I'm using Audacity to export a track, and there are just too many options to encode a .wav export: Signed 16/24/32-bit PCM Unsigned 8-bit PCM 32/64-bit float U-Law, A-Law IMA ADPCM, Microsoft ADPCM GSM 6.10 32kbs G721 ADPCM 16/24/32, NMS…
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How many samples are in a frame?

I'm trying to find out the number of samples in one frame of SMPTE, does anybody know?
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