For some, a day at the race track usually includes either spectating, or driving a fast car. For the Sound Ideas field recording team, our day at the track is a little bit different. Instead of bringing race gear, we loaded up the car with sound recording equipment and off we went to the Canadian […]
You Can’t Get Away From Sound Design
Sound design is everywhere in our daily lives. Most people know about the more obvious mediums for sound design like TV shows, movies and video games. But sound design is actually used in much more subtle mediums as well. You know that sound your car makes when you aren’t wearing your seat belt? A sound […]
Adventures in Surround Sound
Guest Author: James Fensom Hey! My name is James, and I’m a recording engineer at Sound Ideas. For the past year, I’ve been recording ambiences in 5.1. Equipped with the DPA 5100 Mobile Surround Microphone and a Sound Devices 788T, I have travelled throughout urban, rural, indoor, outdoor, and natural environments to capture everyday ambient […]
Recap: NAB 2017
About two weeks ago, Las Vegas was once again the host city to the world’s largest annual convention encompassing the convergence of media, entertainment and technology, the National Association of Broadcasters (or NAB for short). With over 103,000 attendees from 161 countries and 1,806 companies exhibiting, this year’s show was definitely a whirlwind of activity! […]
Interview with Kevin Munro, Sound Engineer
For this week’s blog post, we wanted to give you a little insight into the day-to-day life of a Sound Ideas’ Sound Engineer. Luckily, Kevin Munro (one of the Sound Engineers at Sound Ideas) had some spare time to sit down with us to answer a few questions. SI: What drew you to the […]
How To Record Animals
Certain recording sessions go smoother than others, but in our experience we have found that any session that has animals involved is always going to be a challenge. Over the years, Sound Ideas has done quite a few sessions with animals, so drawing on our hands on experience; we have put together some tips that […]
NAB 2017 – April 22nd to 27th
It’s that time again; the NAB Show®2017 is just around the corner! This isn’t just any old tradeshow, this is the world’s largest event covering filmed entertainment and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums. This year, the Exhibits run from April 24th to 27th at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Sound Ideas […]
Recording Military Tanks
Here at Sound Ideas, you never know what is going to happen next in relation to our recording sessions. From the more mundane sessions like the sound of gift paper being unwrapped, to the more extreme sessions of recording explosions. Once you have worked here for a while, you learn to expect the unexpected. When […]
Recording Equipment – On Location Setup
To get quality sound effects you have to use quality equipment to record it. The type of equipment used depends heavily on the type of sound effect you want to record. If it is a specific solitary sound, like a glass breaking, then in order to record it you need a clean environment where no […]
Recording Destruction
We learn early on to be careful with material things that are fragile, like glass cups, or ceramic figurines. As you continue to grow up you know that to make something last you have to take care of it, make sure it doesn’t get damaged. It is so deeply ingrained into us, that when we […]