A Sound Effect

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A Sound EffectVideoHow CONTROL Resonant makes the ordinary sound strange: Behind the superb game audio What does a city sound like when otherworldly forces warp everyday life? The CONTROL Resonant audio team takes you behind the game's superb sound design in this exclusive…

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A Sound EffectVideoDROIDS: How a Lucasfilm team invented the DAW – go behind Matteo Milani’s new book (and get it for free!) Matteo Milani takes you behind his new book + shares stories behind synthesized arrows for Indiana Jones, washing-machine-sized hard disks - and how Hollywood reacted to seeing sound for the first…

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A Sound EffectVideo12 great new sound effects libraries: Cinematic explosions, barking dogs, Roman ambiences, jungles of Laos & more Explore 12 new sound effects libraries, including cinematic explosions, dogs barking across a Spanish valley, Roman ambiences, the jungles of Laos, and more.

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A Sound EffectVideoNoisevember is live on Airwiggles: Enter here for your chances to win! Don't miss your chance to take part and win glorious prizes:

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A Sound EffectVideoHorror Sound: How the Scariest Sounds in Film, TV & Games Are Made 70+ exclusive stories behind the scariest sounds in film, TV & games - plus tutorials, free SFX and tips for making your own horror sound effects:

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A Sound EffectVideoHow the finely-tuned horror sound for ‘Crystal Lake’ was made: Supervising sound editors and re-recording mixers Steve “Major” Giammaria and Nicholas Renbeck take you behind Crystal Lake's horror sound, with a special focus on episode one, in this excellent new…

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A Sound EffectVideo12 great new sound effects libraries: Western weapons, cyberpunk drones, elemental spells, cozy cooking & more Explore 12 new sound effects libraries, including Western weapons with a Gatling gun, cyberpunk drones, water and electricity spells, cozy cooking, and more:

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A Sound EffectVideoWARDOGS – a game audio deep-dive with Sean Garavan and Albin Jansson: Go behind the sound for BULKHEAD's popular tactical shooter in this massive game audio deep-dive from APA member Audio Logs:

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A Sound EffectVideoBehind The Intense Sound of ‘The Blood of Dawnwalker’: How the audio team designed sounds for bloodthirsty vampires, fantastical creatures, brutal gore and so much more - a huge game audio deep-dive awaits:

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A Sound EffectVideo7 great new sound effects libraries: Dark spells, Suzuki V-twin, tropical wildlife, grassroots football & more Explore 7 new sound effects libraries, including dark fantasy spells, a Suzuki V-twin cruiser, tropical wildlife, grassroots football, and more:

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo