Posts tagged audio

For all you AV nerds out there; A once in a lifetime trip around the conveyor system at B&H Photo in New York City.

For digital diehards, B&H is a mecca of SLR cameras, lenses, computers, editing tools, and everything you could possibly want to produce media. I’ve visited B&H many times, and spent a lot of dough. In the used equipment section is a zoom lens for $250,000.

There are few places like B&H in the world, and even the Apple Store looks anemic in comparison.

B&H is also on Tumblr

swiss-miss.com

Want Some Retro with your USB Microphone? Chikodi and I were just emailing back and forth about USB microphones to use for interviews. I came across this masterpiece. Via GeekAlerts.

Want Some Retro with your USB Microphone?

Chikodi and I were just emailing back and forth about USB microphones to use for interviews. I came across this masterpiece.

Via GeekAlerts.

Adding a Digital Voice to the Revolution

Egypt may have blocked Internet access throughout the country but a new service is helping to get spoken messages out.

Via the NY Times:

Unedited, raw, anonymous and emotional, Egyptian voices are trickling out through a new service that evades attempts by the authorities to suppress them by cutting Internet services.

There is still some cellphone service, so a new social-media link that marries Google, Twitter and SayNow, a voice-based social media platform, gives Egyptians three phone numbers to call and leave a message, which is then posted on the Internet as a recorded Twitter message. The messages are at twitter.com/speak2tweet and can also be heard by telephone.

The result is a story of a revolution unfolding in short bursts. Sometimes speaking for just several seconds, other times for more than a minute, the disembodied voices convey highly charged moments of excitement or calm declarations of what life is like in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, as it seeks to overturn the rule of its leader…

…But no Internet connection is needed for speak2tweet, and in Egypt there was some phone service. Vodafone was working for text and voice on Tuesday, while AT&T BlackBerry users said MobiNil was working. Callers in Egypt had three numbers to leave recorded messages, based in the United States (1-650-419-4196), in Italy at (39-06) 6220-7294 and in Bahrain at (973) 1619-9855.

Then the service will instantly send the recorded call as a Twitter message using the hashtag #egypt.

Copyright Friendly Audio for the Multimedia Producer The question knocking around our email is what are some copyright free and/or royalty free music resources for the multimedia journalist. The answer is in the list below. While not all encompassing, we think it a good start to get you going. ccMixter: dig.ccmixter is devoted to helping you find that great music, all of which is liberally licensed under a Creative Commons license so you already have permission to use this music in your video, podcast, school project, personal music player, or where ever. FreeSound.org: The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. Musopen: Musopen is a non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free. Jamendo: Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Library of Congress: Get that old-timey feeling from public domain works via the LOC’s American Memory project. SoundCloud: Creative Commons tagged music from this musician sharing site. Think of it as a Flickr for audio. Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project: Before their were MP3s there were CDs. Before that there were tapes and vinyl. And before that, the cylinder. UC Santa Barbara has been digitizing music from the late 1800s and early 1900s since 2002. Now free for you to use. Want a Giant Lists of Others? Check out this massive list from Wikispaces, or if you’re looking for beats and loops to create your own songs, the dmoz Open Directory Project has everything from electronica to banjo for you to sample. Have resources of your own? What would you add to the list?

Copyright Friendly Audio for the Multimedia Producer

The question knocking around our email is what are some copyright free and/or royalty free music resources for the multimedia journalist.

The answer is in the list below. While not all encompassing, we think it a good start to get you going.

  • ccMixter: dig.ccmixter is devoted to helping you find that great music, all of which is liberally licensed under a Creative Commons license so you already have permission to use this music in your video, podcast, school project, personal music player, or where ever.
  • FreeSound.org: The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.
  • Musopen: Musopen is a non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.
  • Jamendo: Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses.
  • Library of Congress: Get that old-timey feeling from public domain works via the LOC’s American Memory project.
  • SoundCloud: Creative Commons tagged music from this musician sharing site. Think of it as a Flickr for audio.
  • Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project: Before their were MP3s there were CDs. Before that there were tapes and vinyl. And before that, the cylinder. UC Santa Barbara has been digitizing music from the late 1800s and early 1900s since 2002. Now free for you to use.

Want a Giant Lists of Others?

Check out this massive list from Wikispaces, or if you’re looking for beats and loops to create your own songs, the dmoz Open Directory Project has everything from electronica to banjo for you to sample.

Have resources of your own? What would you add to the list?