Sound Particles

4 stories

Sound ParticlesAudioSpatial Talks w/ Ryan Collins & Nick Offord Three-time Emmy-nominated Re‑recording Mixer Nick Offord and Emmy-winning Sound Designer/Mixer Ryan Collins are longtime collaborators whose partnership has shaped some of television’s most sonically…

08.24

Sound ParticlesAudioHow Beat-Synced Panning Brings Rhythm to Your Mix If your mix is static, your panning probably is too. Beat Panner changes that — by locking movement directly to your tempo, it transforms the stereo field into something that actually grooves.

06.16

Sound ParticlesAudioSounds on the Wall vs Big Mono: How Distance Really Works in 3D Panning Imagine you want to create a sound that passes through the listener — starting in front, moving across, and ending behind them. Simple idea, right?

05.18

Sound ParticlesAudioAdvanced Randomization Tools in Sound Particles 3 Creating realistic, immersive soundscapes is one of the biggest challenges in audio production. Sounds in the real world are rarely uniform — raindrops, crowds, gunshots, and orchestral performances…

04.04

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