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When choosing a sound effects library, what do you look for? For people new to the industry, there are a few key questions they need to answer in order to determine what kind of sound effects library that need for their productions. To start off with, while there are a variety of sound effects library publishers, there are a few that one would consider to be the premium sound effects publishers and that have been around for quite some time, two in specific: Sound Ideas and The Hollywood Edge. Both these companies have been in the industry publishing sound effects for a very long time, and focus on high quality sound effects.Sound Ideas started by creating their first sound effects library– the Series 1000 - on reel to reel tape in 1979. Since then they have created sound effects for the past thirty years, moving from CD formats to hard drive sound effects libraries as of late. Sound Ideas has established themselves as a premium provider of sound effects by constantly innovating and creating exclusive partnerships with providers such as 20th Century Fox and Warner ... [more..]

The trend in distribution of sound effects is toward distributing sound effects collections on hard drives or USB drives. By doing this, publishers are compiling a greater variety of formats and much higher quality sound effects then in the past. An example of a hard drive collection is the Series 6,000 Hard Drive produced by long time sound effects producer Sound Ideas. The hard drive comes with more than 20,000 sound effects with all sound effects in digital broadcast WAV file format. Sound effects on the Sound Ideas Hard Drive can be selected in multiple formats such as 24 bit / 48 kHz, 16 bit/ 48 kHz, or 16 bit/ 44.1 kHz. At the same time, every WAV file is embedded with metadata (information about the file) that allows for easy searching of sound effects through asset management software such as Pro Tools or Itunes. The digital hard drive also contains enabled metadata from the Sound miner Toolset for easy searching of the productions.In summary, a collection such as this could have never been compiled on CDs or DVDs in the past as it would ... [more..]

A few years ago 5.1 surround sound DVD video players looked likely to become standard kit in every living room in the technology friendly world. So now a few years on, what has happened to the original promise of surround sound music? Well the answer to that is 'lots, but not nearly enough.' For those that don't know already, 5.1 surround sound is basically five speakers and a sub-woofer placed around your room allowing you to listen to music or a movie soundtrack literally surrounded by speakers. The film industry pioneered it for theatres and it then became available as a DVD player add-on for home entertainment systems. Now at least 100,000,000 people world-wide own systems, which can and should be used for all manner of surround sound music DVDs. I hear you say, 'but surround sound music on DVD hasn't really caught on. All that wire in my living room'. Even though the consumer can buy a DVD player and surround speaker system cheaply enough, surround sound music hasn't really caught fire yet. Why? There are reasons why we should all remain confident that surround sound music will become more ... [more..]

22 Tips to Obtain Better Sound in a High End Audio System Özhan Atalay Email: ozhan@atalay.biz   Web: http://www.nonamehifi.com     Introduction   Basically accepted thing in audiophile world is that it almost impossible to achieve the best sound by just combining only the best equipments. Much cheaper but properly selected and tweaked system may sound better than its expensive brothers. This is called system synergy in audiophile world. System synergy is not only about combining the best equipments but it is a kind of long and enjoyable way to maximize their performances.   The precautions and principles may be seen absurd and meaningless for someone who does not have solid understanding what the hi-end is. Within last twenty years, I spent considerable time, money and efforts to achieve best sound (..Or what ever the best is). I wrote a couple of important points from my own perspective. Most of these points may be known by the audiophiles anyway if not implemented. More important, below points consist of my own observations merely. There are so many known different tweaks and techniques. I avoided not including here the points that I did not ... [more..]