I managed to capture a few impulse responses for Altiverb while away on holiday. I haven’t gone through the recordings yet but once I have I’ll upload them and then update this post… My nephew Morris firing my .22 starter…
my remote studio
While on holiday in Takaka I set up a temporary music studio, much thanks to Gaylene Preston who loaned me her cottage & woolshed… its such a peaceful spot The woolshed was the perfect size to set up in &…
happy new year!
I finished 2006 by going on a road trip around the South Island of New Zealand. The main destination in the far south was Fiordland, quite probably the most remote spot in the whole country! I went on a boat…
Mixing a film (part 3)
Oh my god, i still dont quite believe it, but we have finished mixing! After what feels like an eternity spent in a dark occasionally LOUD room (& was probably actually 4 weeks) we have final mixed all the reels!…
why birds sing
this book looks intriging, more info on this site apparently birds sing in their sleep as well!?!
Bridge To Terabithia Trailer
The trailer for the film we are currently mixing has just been released on the internet, download quicktime (31MB) here
Sound so fast you can feel it!
I did a lot of research on land speed racers when working on The World’s Fastest Indian, but nothing quite this fast – check out the sonic boom from this ‘car’ doing 1126km/h! Of course planes can pass the sound…
mixing a film – part 2
Ok we’ve finished premixing all the FX – between the three of us cutting FX we premixed our elements down to 5.1 stems (from A -> L) which took us 6 days. Next was the foley premix, which will take…
a tidy foley studio?
All I can say on the topic of foley rooms is NEVER trust a tidy one! The best foley rooms are FULL of props and surfaces to recreate footsteps & performed sound effects, and a good foley artist knows the…
where i am
My studio is in Wellington, New Zealand – in a quiet little suburb called Miramar And a Google Earth location marker for my studio just for the record 41°18’45.59″S, 174°48’49.29″E Also in the neighbourhood is Peter Jackson’s awesome film post…
capturing the wind (part 1)
Obsessions are funny things… obviously one of mine is sound, which I appreciate is a fairly broad obsession, so to be more specific about it I love to try & capture the wind – not in a balloon or anything…
mixing a film – part 1
We have just started mixing this film at Park Road Post – Peter Jackson’s fantastic film post production facility. So I thought I might document the process a little…. For the first week or so we are mixing in two…
radio? i.choose
When I was a boy I grew up in rural Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand & as I became aware of music I began to crave more than what was dished up on mainstream radio… FWIW I…
studio tools you never knew you needed
THIS is genius! “Any experienced studio engineer or producer knows that the presence of visitors in the studio can dramatically alter the performance of singers and musicians. Sometimes the effect can be beneficial, other times it can be disastrous. Using…
subwoofer madness!
Mixing films usually involves playing with subwoofers at some point, but thats in a big room with plenty of air…..check this video clip of insane car subwooferage:
resonance
You only have to go to a gig or stand in front of a drum kit or bass amp to appreciate the physical effects of sound, but this video illustrates the effect frequency has on the natural balance between order…
Focusing your ears
How come you can shut your eyes but not your ears? A crucial skill not often discussed by people who work with sound is that of being able to focus your ears… Most people understand the idea of focusing your…
recording metallic resonance
I’ve been recording & then messing with some lovely resonant sounds generated by various bits of metal, suspended by cotton thread… the largest have been some chromatically tuned wind chimes that I just got from magnolia windchimes in nelson –…
ADR
Everyone has experienced a bad ADR session, but I have never heard an actor so eloquently insult the director as Orsen Welles does while attempting to voice this commercial!
recording vehicle FX
Its such fun to get out of the studio & do some FX recording! This a Ford Bronco V8 we recorded yesterday for our current film project: Bridge To Terabithia. We managed to track this vehicle down via TradeMe, since…