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Tutorial: 9 Tips to Improve Editing and Mastering Sound Effects
Field recording good audio is only one of three steps to creating a great sound effect. The full process includes: recording a sound effect with microphones mastering the sound fx in editing software...
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Zoom H4 Tutorial for Absolute Beginners
This tutorial will teach you how to record sound effects using a specific field recorder, the Zoom H4. I wrote this tutorial some time ago. I recently found it tucked away in a folder. It was written...
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We mostly talk about sound effects in these parts. Today’s post is about something different: music. For a beginner, music publishing is a complex and inscrutable world. Information is hard to find....
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Sound Effects Copyright Survival Guide 1: The Basics
Copyright is a hot topic these days. Ever since content became digital, artists, creators and consumers have dragged issues like copyright, streaming, torrents and sharing into fierce debates. There’s...
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Sound Effects Copyright Survival Guide 2: How You Can Use Sound Effects
In the last article we looked at the basics of copyright, including: Why copyright exists. How copyright is applied. Copyright history. Benefits to copyright holders. Duration of copyright. Copyright...
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Sound Effects Copyright Survival Guide 3: Copyright and Your Sound Libraries
Have you spent years building a production music library? Meticulously mastered thousands of sound effects to sell on the Internet? Many field recordists and musicians want to publish, and this number...
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Sound Effects Copyright Survival Guide 4: Two Library Copyright Hazards
You are a field recordist. You’ve finally crafted a sound effects library. You’ve spent hours in the studio. You’ve wandered for days in the wilderness, capturing sound clips. You’ve tweaked,...
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Sound Effects and Copyright Survival Guide 5: Sharing Sound
We’ve reached the final article in the series of copyright and sound effects libraries. Previously we’ve looked at the basics of copyright, how copyright affects using sound libraries, how copyright...
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How to Create a Loopable Sound Effect
Do you have a sound effects collection, or are thinking of building one? A sound library is important for any sound designer or field recordist. It’s more than just a collection of tracks you’ve...
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