Waves Post Production

Waves has been a big-name for audio processing plugin for years. Their plugins are widely used in music production, and also in audio post-production. Waves has just released 2 new plugins designed for post production in the new series, Waves Post Production. Let’s have a look at these two plugins.

Waves Noise Suppressor and LoAir are interesting for Sound Design. Here’s what Waves said about their 2 new post-production weapons.

WNS Waves Noise Suppressor is a real-time multiband processor for fast and effective broadband noise suppression on dialog tracks.

For years, sound design and post production professionals have been waiting for a subharmonic synthesizer plug-in that delivers the earthshaking sound of hardware. The wait is over. [LoAir]

Waves Noise Suppressor

This is clear for what they can do. What WNS interests me the word “Real-Time”. Normally, noise reduction plugin needs high degree of calculation which comes latency. Waves said WNS use low CPU and zero latency. It must be a very useful plugin when working with on-location dialog.

Waves LoAir

For LoAir, as Waves said, we’ve been looked for a subharmonic synthesizer for long time. Low-end rumble is always needed in sound design. Personally, I really like the copy writing for LoAir, Get Ready to Rumble. Wil Waves release Michael Buffer Collections soon?

Links :

• Waves Noise Suppressor : http://waves.com/Content.aspx?id=9943
• Waves LoAir : http://waves.com/Content.aspx?id=9939

Image credit : http://waves.com/

Norah Jones – The Fall

Norah Jones : The Fall

Her beautiful voice in “Don’t know why” is still in my head. Norah Jones’ new album will release next week (Nov 17,2009) and now we can listen to “Chasing Pirates” from NorahJones.com. Let’s have a look at the audio player on the website, there’s something interesting.

Today, spreading something out on the internet is a no-brainer way to promote anything you want, no matter how famous it is; from the home-video shot from mobile phone to the blockbuster flick. In the audio world, there is no Youtube-liked service for audio so far. SoundCloud is good, but not completely free as Youtube.

Pet Shop Boys posted the preview of their latest album, Yes, on the homepage of their website (http://www.petshopboys.co.uk). I think this is a good idea but lacking of embed code to embed this preview on blogs or other social media is a serious limitation. Let’s get back to look at Norah Jones’ new album, The Fall. The single posted on her website is ready be shared via many many social network, and embed code is ready for blogs.

Audio player is ready to be shared

This is another example of using internet technology for marketing. Even the big name like Norah Jones applies this trend into her marketing strategy.

Unfortunately, WordPress.com isn’t available in the share option of this audio player

Link : http://norahjones.com/

Sound Design Book List by @timprebble

Tim Prebble (@timprebble , musicofsound.co.nz) recommended books on the subject of film sound design. Thanks Tim, this is a very useful list. Though It’s not easy for me to read English book because my language skill isn’t that good, there’s no way to study sound design if I don’t read English book.

Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema by David Sonnenschein is another book I thought it’d be included in this list. I’m reading it and will pick up the next one from Tim’s list.

Link : http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/sound-design-book-list

Gibson Les Paul wallpaper

I googled around to find nice pic for my desktop background today, and I found this website when I used “Gibson Wallpaper” as keyword for image search. I like this collection of Les Paul images and now I’m using one of them as background.

Link : http://bbs.espguitars.com/showthread.php?t=38911

Movie Trailer : Prince of Persia – The Sands of Time

No need to say much about this title, Prince of Persia. I’ve heard of it since the DOS day until today, the day of Next-Gen game consoles. But this video is not a debut trailer of the new game in Prince of Persia series, it’s a movie trailer. Hitting to theater soon.