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Rycote Announces New Mini Boom Pole and Lyre Stereo Suspension
Rycote, one of the biggest names in wind protection and microphone suspension, has announced a pair of new products this week. First is their Lightwave A-3 light weight aluminum boom pole. This small pole is great for ENG work or trying to get into those…
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Sound Maps of the World
Sound designer and recordist Tim Prebble has published a great list of sound maps available in the Internet. You can find lots of interesting webistes with different sound map projects form several places of the world, including New York, UK, Spain and many others. If you’re…
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Recording of the Week: Maggots Fun by Richard Devine
Recording of the Week is a series of posts dedicated to feature a sound recording published in the community during each week, in order to promote different kinds of recordists over the web. How many recordists like the idea of submerging two H2a hydrophones into…
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Creative Challenge I: Getting Out There
Welcome to the first installment of “The Creative Challenge,” a series I am writing on overcoming creative roadblocks. The Problem All creative minds run into “writer’s block.” We are raised in a society that holds order and structure in high regard. We are trained to think “inside…
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The Sun Interviews Gordon Hempton
World-reknowned field recordist Gordon Hempton, author of “One Square Inch of Silence” (a great read) and subject of the recent documentary “Soundtracker” (a great film), was recently interviewed by The Sun on his quest for silence in the natural world. Having transformed from a commerical…
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Sound Devices USBPre 2 Announced
Sound Devices just announced a new version of their USBPre this week at IBC 2010 in Amsterdam. It boasts many beefed up features and a new standalone mode. But this is a USB device, so what does this have to do with field recording? I’ll…
