Friday, May 25, 2007

Noisy Office


Visited an office at Nottingham City Council this week. The office in question is extremely reverberant due to the high ceiling, bare plastered walls and lack of any absorption. The two options were either to reduce the volume by installing some kind of suspended ceiling or to increase the room's absorption characteristics. The latter option was favoured as the room itself is very ornate with detailed coving surrounding the ceiling, so it would be a shame to get rid of this.

As a result, I came up with a prototype absorption panel (based on Paul White's design) to be built and tested. If a satisfactory result is obtained the final solution will be to fix half a dozen or so around the office walls with high resolution photographs of Nottingham screen printed on to the fabric covering.

Friday, May 04, 2007

Text book anyone?

Have been in contact with Focal Press about me writing a text book on Audio Production / Technology / Post Production type bits. I want to create a "one stop" solution for people new to the world of audio, from background theory (but not too technical) to providing lots of hands on tutorials with accompanying CD/DVD. I have written lots of handouts / handbooks during the past few years and I now think it's time to try and get them out there.

There's lots of excellent books in the Focal Press range, but I want one which covers bits of everything and one which hopefully will enable students to see the importance of learning the theory as well as the practical.

Session

Feeling very good at the moment to actually be using the studio. A new song which we have recently started is really starting to take shape and it's so good just to be able to send people to the vocal booth and to obtain extremely clean recordings without the usual PC fan noise in the background.....

On a separate note, just about to put an order in for Final Cut Studio 2. Having never really used Final Cut / DVD Studio etc., properly before, it is going to be nice to have a play with them. The new COLOUR package looks awesome for giving signature colour grading to projects (I especially like the look of Top Gear at the moment). It also contains Soundtrack Pro - not sure what that's like?