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Boom Box PostAudioHORROR SOUNDSCAPES: AN INTERN DESIGN CHALLENGE In the spirit of Halloween, we asked our interns, Jon Black and Lizzie Marcou, to design their own horror soundscapes!

Boom Box PostAudioToon Treasures from Trash: Recording an Old Acrylic Sheet This past summer, our interns Renata Schmult and Jennifer Bonilla were hanging new posters around the office and we found ourselves with an extra acrylic sheet from an old poster frame.

Boom Box PostAudioWhat's New At Boom Box Post: Fall 2026 We have a slew of new releases coming this fall that we’re beyond excited to share with you! It’s always one of the most rewarding times for us to see our hard work come together with the final…

Boom Box PostAudioIntroducing Lizzie Marcou & Jon Black Meet Boom Box Post’s newest interns, Jon Black & Lizzie Marcou!

Boom Box PostAudioSupport the California Post-Production Tax Credit: AB 2319 If you live in California and work in the entertainment industry, you have almost certainly noticed a precipitous decrease in film and television projects seeking staff over the last few years.

Boom Box PostAudioLooking Back On Our Summer Internships with Renata Schmult and Jennifer Bonilla Our summer interns Jennifer Bonilla and Renata Schmult have just wrapped up their time with us here at Boom Box.

Boom Box PostAudioThe 2-Pop: The Tiny Sound That Keeps Everything In Sync You’ve most likely heard it in some form or another: the tiny little beep before the start of a video production.

Boom Box PostAudioInside Sound Design: Cutting Gore on Invincible Whether you're an avid viewer of Skybound Entertainment and Prime Video’s Invincible, or haven't watched a single episode, you may have heard recent buzz around one of the most brutal fight scenes of…

Boom Box PostAudioBoom Box Post Editors' Favorite Shortcuts Boom Box Post intern, Renata Schmult, is on a mission to expand her keyboard shortcut muscle memory! She drafted up some questions for an office-wide survey to learn about each of our editors’…

Boom Box PostAudioIntern Recording Challenge: Hula Hoops! As vast as our sound effects library is here at Boom Box, we're still frequently faced with on-screen actions that can only be convincingly brought to life by recording original sounds.

Boom Box PostAudioCapturing The Sounds of Fourth of July Fireworks in LA If you've spent a Fourth of July in Los Angeles, you know the city transforms into one giant fireworks show.

Boom Box PostAudioIntroducing Jennifer Bonilla & Renata Schmult! Meet Boom Box Post’s newest interns, Jennifer Bonilla and Renata Schmult!

Boom Box PostAudioSound Effects Through The Lens of Music Terminology As sound editors, we have our own vocabulary for describing the characteristics of the sounds we use in our work.

Boom Box PostAudioCommon Sound Editorial Bad Habits That are Easy to Avoid Fair warning, I don’t want this post to come across as just another mixer rant… and I’ll do my best to keep things civil.

Boom Box PostAudioPro Tools Quick Tip: Using 'Sync Points' for Faster Editing There’s a powerful Pro Tools feature I’ve been using more and more in my editorial as of late and after chatting with other editors in the office I’ve realized it’s commonly overlooked.

Boom Box PostAudioWhat's That Sound? A Summer Crossword Challenge What’s that sound? Summer is just around the corner! To get us in the summertime spirit, we brainstormed a few of our favorite summer sounds and either recorded, designed or pulled clips from our…

Boom Box PostAudioLooking Back on Eli's Internship at Boom Box Our spring intern Eli Bahner is finishing up his time with us here at Boom Box. It’s been a pleasure working with Eli this spring and we’re excited for what the future holds for him in the sound…

Boom Box PostAudioSave Time Assembling With This Pro Tools Import Feature I recently handled a mix assembly for the first time and although on paper it’s a very straightforward process, it’s extremely detailed and can be quite time consuming.

Boom Box PostAudioSound Design From Thin Air With SOMA Laboratories' Ether ETHER is an electromagnetic field receiver — essentially a wide-band “anti-radio.” Rather than tuning to one radio station or frequency, it captures a huge swath of the electromagnetic spectrum (from…

Boom Box PostAudioBoom Box Library Spring Sale is Here! Boom Box Library is now hosting an enormous spring sale. Our entire Boom Box Library site is 50% off with code SPRING50.

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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