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Radio Drama Anyone?

I've made reference to this before, but I'm surprised to find that I haven't asked directly, anybody here into radio drama? or, I suppose, more accurately these days, audio drama? I'm ramping up to start recording my first ever full-scale production…
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Doin' It Stereo in the Field

In terms of your stereo image, do you prefer the fixed perspective of something like an NT-4, H4N, or D-50, or do you prefer the variable perspective of a pair of shotguns? I personally prefer the weaker center of a spaced-pair, which has to added…
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Tablet for Location or Live Audio

Hey Guys, So I am starting to do more live sound gigs, traveling the world-over. I am going to be leaving my MacBook Pro at home from now on because I have seen a lot of them get bashed up on the road and I want something both easier to fit in a…
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iZotope RX vs RX 2 vs RX 2 Advanced?

Hi everyone, I've been using iZotope RX (Version 1) for some time. I'm a big fan of the declipper especially, and the denoiser is fantastic in certain situations. I'm considering upgrading to Version 2 but after comparing the versions I don't…
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Ambisonic Sound for Film

Just starting my reserach paper for my masters degree and i'm interested to hear from anyone who has ever mixed sound in ambisonics - whether it was using B-format recordings or placing tracks into the ambisonic surround field. How easily did you…
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SAMPLERS: What are you using?

Lots to choose from out there… I've found the integration between ProTools and Structure very smooth; it's easy to wrap my head around and actually produce some decent sounding patches in a short amount of time, which is really important to me since…
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How to deal with a bad film?

So I am in a situation in which I agreed to do "sound design" for a short film a year ago. It came to my desk and they had me rush a pre dub out in one week to send off to sun dance 2010. Well now they have made many many edit changes and it is…
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Dialog Editing Compression?

Just wondering if any of the dialog editors out there use any compression while editing dialog? I normally edit with the dialog flat, but was thinking that slapping a compressor might make make any subtle clicks or mouth noise "pop" a bit more.…
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Ear Protection While Cycling

Ahoy Matees, After a long and arduously soppy spring up here in Canada, summer has at long last descended on us with it's iron fist of sweaty retribution. That means it's bicycle season! Yesterday, in my enthusiasm, I hopped on the duo-ped and…
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How do you 'cleanse the pallet'?

Hello all, So I'm just finishing up the last of a children's series, and getting ready to move on to a cool little indie feature. My question is this: What tricks/techniques do you use to clear your mind of one project and get it ready for the…
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Animal Sounds Libraries

Does anyone know any CD recordings or royalty-free sites that contain quality animal sounds of various types? (ie: North American, African, Asian, Australian animal sounds). The key to this question is quality sounds. I have found several sites…
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Looking for dream sequence references

Hello I am in early pre prod for a fantasy type film where a girl jumps from reality to dream world, the dream world is a "golden desert" type, I was just wondering what films I could look at that have dream sequences with interesting uses of sound?…
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Timecode irregularity post

So the editor of this period drama says to me last week, the sync is out, and also commented that the 2nd unit recordist was as much as 5 frames out of sync.... now first of all let's says there's a 2 frame offset.. that still leaves 3 frames…
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What are your favourite sounds?

I am interested in sounds and how they relate to our memories and I'd like to know: 1.) What are some of your favourite sounds? 2.) What are some sounds that you relate strongly with memories of your childhood? 3.) What are some sounds that, in your…
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Zoom H2 Frequency Response - 70hz?

I'm most likely going to buy a Zoom H2 recorder to keep with me. I'm always hearing awesome sounds, but I don't carry my 744 with me (for obvious reasons), so I either have to remember where they are and make a special effort to record them later,…
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