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  • Sonic Terrain’s Bookshelf: +200 Books on Sound

    As researchers, artists, institutions and individuals in general get more interested on sound studies and practices in its plurality of fields and perspectives, it becomes important to find ways of not only inter-connecting our ideas and processes but also to organizing…

  • OpenAIR, A Collective Library of Impulse Responses

    OpenAIR, A Collective Library of Impulse Responses

    There are many libraries featuring impulse responses online, both free as the great EchoThief and commercial, such as those impressive recordings Audio Ease has been doing for the Altiverb reverb plugin. But there is something actually beyond all these options,…

  • World’s Largest Natural Sound Archive Available Online

    World’s Largest Natural Sound Archive Available Online

    Cornell University has launched a fascinating (and huge) online library of nature sounds, which can be listened at MacaulayLibrary.org “This is one of the greatest research and conservation resources at the Cornell Lab,” said Budney. “And through its digitization we’ve swung…

  • Recording Ultimate Foliage

    Recording Ultimate Foliage

    Frank Bry has published a very nice post about the recording process of his newly released sfx library called Ultimate Foliage. I’ve been asked a few times, “You’re recording leaves? Why?” My short answer was because they are there. The…

  • Making of HISS and a ROAR PRESSURE SFX Library, by Tim Prebble

    Making of HISS and a ROAR PRESSURE SFX Library, by Tim Prebble

    [Sound designer and recordist Tim Prebble is releasing “PRESSURE“, a new sound effects library (from his company HISS and a ROAR) loaded with more than 2,700 sounds recorded from different pressure devices. We’ve invited him to talk about the recording process…

  • Recording Insects: What is that buzzing sound in my head?

    Recording Insects: What is that buzzing sound in my head?

    Sound designer and recordist Frank Bry is releasing the second package of the Insects HD SFX series, packed with amazing bug recordings. We invited him to do an exclusive article about the making of the library and how he recorded the…