Hi all,
In case you did not get the email, we have a Google group now at
http://groups.google.com/group/umassamherstaudio
James, could please add this site to the links on the right?
I have posted my (very) informal notes from the Boston AES meeting last week, and will soon make the group page look a little better than its current default state.
April 16, 2008
The BAM Audio School
BAM Audio School
Once upon a time, Audio Engineers learned their craft while working for years in studios, observing and learning from experienced Engineers, Producers, Musicians, and Technicians. These days most of the major commercial studios have closed and it is very difficult to get an opportunity to make coffee in a real studio, much less get into sessions. Add today's easy-to-afford software with easy-to-use presets and there is even less reason to actually have to learn anything about Audio Engineering other than avoiding distortion.
The BAM Audio Course is a free online Audio Course intended to save the “art” of Audio Engineering from becoming another victim in a point-and-click world. Preset sounds and settings are convenient and easy but rarely give results beyond “good enough”. Judging from the popular opinion that most of today’s music feels and sounds inferior to older music, perhaps “good enough” simply ISN’T.
The course will include text "lectures", audio files, and video clips from myself and other Engineers, Producers, Musicians and Studio Managers. The material provided here is not intended to take the place of hands-on training at a school or as a studio intern, but I certainly hope that at the very least it will show people something about how the ART of Audio Engineering can improve the ART of music on many levels.
Once upon a time, Audio Engineers learned their craft while working for years in studios, observing and learning from experienced Engineers, Producers, Musicians, and Technicians. These days most of the major commercial studios have closed and it is very difficult to get an opportunity to make coffee in a real studio, much less get into sessions. Add today's easy-to-afford software with easy-to-use presets and there is even less reason to actually have to learn anything about Audio Engineering other than avoiding distortion.
The BAM Audio Course is a free online Audio Course intended to save the “art” of Audio Engineering from becoming another victim in a point-and-click world. Preset sounds and settings are convenient and easy but rarely give results beyond “good enough”. Judging from the popular opinion that most of today’s music feels and sounds inferior to older music, perhaps “good enough” simply ISN’T.
The course will include text "lectures", audio files, and video clips from myself and other Engineers, Producers, Musicians and Studio Managers. The material provided here is not intended to take the place of hands-on training at a school or as a studio intern, but I certainly hope that at the very least it will show people something about how the ART of Audio Engineering can improve the ART of music on many levels.
April 15, 2008
Audio Electronic Kits
Chip Amp - They have a DYI power amp kit. Check it out, it's definitely a good project for the M5 audio heads!
MPJA Online - "Supplier of Industrial Electronics & Educational Electronics for over 30 years." They also have a 1 Watt amplifier kit for $4.69!
Carl's Electronics - Audio kits ranging from an Audio to Light Modulator to a Sound Effects Generator, and plenty more.
HobbyTron - "HobbyTron.com is the worlds largest supplier of the most popular RC Cars, RC Helicopters, RC Planes, RC Boats, Airsoft Guns, Magic Tricks, Science Kits...", they also have some audio kits too.
FishFive.Net DIY - More Pro Audio DYI kits.
MPJA Online - "Supplier of Industrial Electronics & Educational Electronics for over 30 years." They also have a 1 Watt amplifier kit for $4.69!
Carl's Electronics - Audio kits ranging from an Audio to Light Modulator to a Sound Effects Generator, and plenty more.
HobbyTron - "HobbyTron.com is the worlds largest supplier of the most popular RC Cars, RC Helicopters, RC Planes, RC Boats, Airsoft Guns, Magic Tricks, Science Kits...", they also have some audio kits too.
FishFive.Net DIY - More Pro Audio DYI kits.
April 4, 2008
oneminutevacation.org
one-minute vacation
Surely you can spare a minute to clean your ears? Take a one-minute vacation from the life you are living.
One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else.
April 2, 2008
Direct Note Access
Direct Note Access
the new Melodyne dimension
Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. The unique access that Melodyne affords to pitch, timing, note lengths and other parameters of melodic notes will now also be afforded to individual notes within chords.
To watch the short promotional video, go to: http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna
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