A Background to Sound in Film             When working with sound in film, there are four main aspects to consider, including atmosphere, special effects, dialogue, foley and music. These are referred to as stems and are worked on separately during the three stages of producing sound for film: Pre-production, production, and post-production.             Foley sound… Read more

Introduction This blog aims to discuss the processes and techniques involved in producing, mixing, and mastering a piece of music in the studio to a professional standard. Studio Set Up and Organisation  Cables  To keep my workspace organised, I ensured that all cables were routed to a stage box (snake) and coiled next to microphone… Read more

Introduction This blog will discuss recording techniques utilised in the recording of my originally written song for MUS2056. The aim of this project was to create two distinct mixes by applying a variety of studio techniques and microphone placements.  1.0 Preparing for a Studio Session 1.1 The Song Writing Process It is important prior to… Read more

Introduction Within the music industry, there are many practices and procedures behind live sound and performance that allow them to run smoothly and professionally. This blog post will discuss some of these methods and strategies, catered towards different audiences and venues, why they are important, and how I have applied them to performances of my… Read more

Introduction A&R (Artist and Repertoire) is a role within the music industry that involves finding new artists and songs to be used for a range of different purposes. Some of these may include an artist to be signed by a record label and release music within the industry or looking for songs to be used in commercials, films or games.… Read more

Now that the audio and video for my projects have been synched appropriately, there are a few last steps needed to clean up the projects and create clean finished products. Fades and Automation A fade refers to the volume of a track increasing from 0 to the desired level over a set amount of time,… Read more

Organising My Work While I have been working on my two projects, I have discovered it is paramount to keep all of my work organised and in order. To make the process easier, I have backed up my sound recordings on 3 different mediums and named them all descriptively in according folders. This makes it… Read more

Important Aspects of Recording When recording sound, there are multiple precautions and measures that must be put in place to achieve high quality audio, as well as many things to be aware of. These include: Room Tone, Atmosphere and Reverb Headroom and distortion Directionality and mic placement In this post I will discuss the issues… Read more

The Basics of Microphones Microphones in their basic form are devices that are responsible for converting sound into an electrical signal. This is referred to as a form of transducer. Every microphone utilises a diaphragm, which is the part of the device that sound typically hits first, starting the process of converting sound to an… Read more

Deciding On The Right Sounds For my first own recording of sound for video, I have decided to use a 3 minute clip from the film ‘Wall-e’, which I will record my own sounds for and dub these over the the clip. My task is to recreate the sounds for the full film clip using… Read more