Check out the great new AES tutorial on Large Room Acoustics By Diemer de Vries at the Audio Engineering Society website. Note, you must be an AES member - if you're not JOIN, it's a great group!

For more tutorial see the AES Tutorials page

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Earl Vickers
The Sound Guy, Inc.
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PayPerNote 1.0

Saratoga, CA - April 1, 2009 The Sound Guy, Inc. has announced the release of PayPerNote 1.0, an advanced note management program.

PayPerNote analyzes audio or MIDI inputs and allows performers to view exactly how much they're getting paid on a per-note basis.

Recent postings in a sound design group point out examples of great sound design in television commercials. Here are some of my favorites:

If you haven't heard, Paul Davis and friends have just released the second version of Ardour - a free open-source multitrack recorder for Linux and now for OSX. The intro on the site gives a good summary:

"Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it."

The technical quality of most vlogs and podcasts today can be vastly improved. I often run into production values in podcasts and vlogs (Scoble POV) that are not up to snuff. Many are riddled with distortion, clipping and uneven volume levels. The social and cultural message is the driving force on the web today. So, why ruin your show with fundamental problems? What Bites Today? Rabbit Bites. Most of their shows are riddled with audio distortion and volume levels that dramatically change from scene to scene -- so much that it ruins the entire production. The viewer gravitates to the errors not the message. Heck, sometimes the volume is so low you can't hear those precious bunnies put down their prey in their cute high-pitched voices. Ever hear of a "pop filter"? Some advice: