From http://jedsound.com/blog/?p=164
Tags: already posted by other sound blogs, Field recording, Sound, Studio, vidéo
août 28, 2010
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The Team
Alexandre Rocca, co-founder and Author
Dorian Darcourt, co-founder, site administrator and Author
Hugo Guiral, co-founder and in charge of localisations
The Authors
Gaël Nicolas, sound editor
Laurent Quaglio, sound editor
Bruno Guéraçague, sound editor
Yves Capus, sound recordist
If you make real surround material, and want to join the Author pool, just send us a mail, we’ll be glad to build something up with you.
Partners
Sophie Raynaud, graphism and illustration
Pierre Michalet, PHP development
Carine Gabrielli, webdesign and integration
Michaël Thomas, internal JAVA development
Special thanks to Karine Semery and Olivia Vigouroux for their support and help.
New Surround Library from French people!
By Benoit Tigeot in SoundSurround Factory, a
French business founded in 2010 by sound to picture experts working on films, sound editings, sound designs, and mixings, was created to promote multi channel sound recordings to be used by professionals in the worlds of cinema, HD TV, video games, event creating, institutional, and educational films, amongst others.
Because sound is above all a human adventure, our project aims to bring together an international community of sound engineers working with multi channel recording. Their experience and their competence are there to welcome you to different worlds of sound, with a variety of different surround recording techniques, the state of the art in sound industry.
Our Surround Library offers ambiences and sound effects in different forms: in discreet 5.1 of course, but also in ambisonic (B-format), in Double-M/S, in Double-A/B, in Double-ORTF, and so on. It goes without saying that the sounds are recorded by experienced professionals with the best available hardware (Soundfield, Schoeps, Neumann concerning microphones, and Nagra, Sonosax, Aaton, Deva or Sound Devices for the recorders and amps). The resulting sounds are then checked in our studio, edited and metadated (BWF and Soundminer) in order to guarantee their quality.
For ease of use and to permit their application in traditional productions (stereo only), the sounds are also available in a carefully reduced stereo versions set up by us. For free…
And because sound is also a question of passion and curiosity, you will find for each sound all the technical information related to it such as its Author, the recording hardware used, its format (sample frequency and bitrate), and much more. All this information is obviously present in the downloaded audio file (BWF and Soundminer metadatas).
As founders of Surround Library, we were obviously attracted to ambisonic technology because of its on-location advantages (quite small mic. array), its flexibility (4 channels only), and its power of exploitation in post production (use of specific plug-ins, perfect compatibility with different broadcast formats, from mono through 5.1 and 7.1, to 12.0, which makes it a particularly long-lasting format).
You will find here professional quality sound effects and ambiences, both on a technical and aesthetic level, articles and advices about the different systems used for our library (from the recording to its use in post production), a modern exchange platform (forum), and regular news on our activities on our Blog and on the Facebook and Twitter networks.
Surround Factory, through its network, experience and professionalism, is a first choice partner for all your audiovisual projects. We can help at the beginning of the project, as second unit during filming, or during postproduction for retakes or making particular surround sounds for the project. We can also take charge of entire post-production films using the elements often badly known by the rest of the audiovisual crew.
The whole Surround Library staff is at your disposal to answer your wishes to our best ability. You can contact us for more information at contact@surround-library.com.
Dorian Darcourt and Alexandre Rocca, founders of Surround Library.
Tags: Field recording, France, Sound, Sound Library
août 26, 2010
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Feedback
By Benoit Tigeot in SoundFirstly I would like to thank Tim Prebble for the attention it has to wrote an answer (a novel!). Few things interpellate me.
Creativity and curiosity
- « … being too judgemental BEFORE you record.«
That’s true. I think it’s just a lack of reliance. I must become again a little kid and accept to be surprised. Maybe after I will be happy of what I did?
We can also feel block by failing to get out of the technical. Always better equipement? Always follow the codes? It’s a work to reach beyond that.
- » (…) On some creative projects I go through short periods where I think the project has become worthless – it’s all bad! Why am I even trying to finish this? I guess it is a form of doubt. But I’ve learned that it is important to just delay those feelings. I tell myself: stop being judgemental and keep going! Do the next step, and the next one, and once the project is a little further developed, then stop have & see how you feel about it. And funnily enough this tactic usually works. Whatever made me feel bad was momentary, a passing mood shift or something external & short lived. Most projects of any depth take time and there will be stages that feel frustrating, but you just have to keep going and push through those feelings. (…) «
That’s what I do, but when the projects where it was difficult to finish them are repeated and where the lack of inspiration is great, you ask yourself questions. The most annoying is when these projects affect the projects on which you have invested more personally. It is difficult to separate « business projects » (where your paid for your job/passion) and personal project.
The word who is for me the most important is « persevere ». So I’ll persevere!
;)
Feeds (Twitter, Blog, Reviews…)
It’s funny because i’m using nearly the same configuration for manage all RSS but very often I’m afraid of missing something interesting. Sometimes when I go on vacation or have too much work. I’m not on my google reader for a week when I come back often I click on « Mark all as read », it’s almost good and it’s always reassuring to know that we can say stop.
I hope that everything who is written here is understandable and I don’t appear too much like a person who suffers or who is lost. I’m trying to isolate the problem to better fight it and I think i failed in time and task management.
I think I have often problems related to time management so it’s better to reflect the earliest.
août 24, 2010
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State
By Benoit Tigeot in SoundI was on holidays last week end in the south west of France. I went there with record equipment (Nagra LB, Windjamer with handgun with a cardio MBHO inside). I’ve recorded nothing…!
I’ve heard nothing different, nothing who interpellate me except a 200m tyrolean traverse rope but I didn’t have my equipment…
So i’m coming back to work with no raw material. I am a bit frustrated by this result. But it’s not all …
My passion for the sound in general is tired. I no longer composed music, I record sound effects rarely, I don’t fiddle my plug-ins. I’m feeling a bit drained. I try to understand why, but I can’t find. This is not a loss of inspiration, but more the loss of desire. I wonder if this is not the lack of constraints/impositions, or the facts that I don’t work for projects that fascinates me, the fact that I don’t learn with someone passionate. Gradually the sound work became a work before a passion, whereas before it was the opposite.
Do I have to give me more constraints/impositions? Do I have to force myself to record? To compose music?
There is also something that prompts me to discourage me (I think) is that I’m never satisfied. When I record sounds, I always find that it is not good (too much noise, not accurate, we don’t recognize enough, sounds already recorded by other people …). I think I have to learn with someone who knows his work well, or with you through this blog.
That you’re already happened? Have you any advice?
PS; who do you manage the mass of sound blog, twitter timeline, new equipment review, films…. You need to clone you if you want to follow this huge mass of information. I can’t do it anymore and I am doing an overdose!
Emplty Space by Nick Chino
août 24, 2010
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Dynamic Interference
By Benoit Tigeot in SoundThe last 5 finalist for the Sound Design Challenge #1: Starting With a Bang! are here!
For the moment the winner is
Tags: already posted by other sound blogs, blog, Dynamic Interference, SFX, Sound
août 23, 2010
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Go back to work
By Benoit Tigeot in ChillAfter 4 weeks with my broken arm and 1 week on holiday, i’m go back to work… I will write soon a post of my hollydays and the lack of inspiration I had.
août 2, 2010
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News august
By Benoit Tigeot in ChillHi everybody
Sorry, i’m not very active on the blog actualy. I broke my arm 3 weeks ago so I’m out… I working on a article of the Audio Team of Ubisoft France for the website SoundDesigners.org.
I have to clean some other sounds, like desk chair how is rolling on flooring. Not amazing sounds… I’m going on holidays in two weeks with all my audio equipement. I will post sounds here.
Thanks to all other sound blogs that I keep reading. It’s realy great to see that a lots of people who are active on the web. I saw that sometimes you post videos or articles with french. Tell me if you need translation!
See ya
My favorite of the moment.
Freud - Reflection
