Don't Torrent that Music From iTunes

Well don't Torrent music from anywhere really, because it's prolly not legal...

Just a friendly reminder from TUAW.com, the new higher quality, DRM- free tunes on iTunes will be watermarked with your user info. That means if this music is traded/torrented/ shared/ whatever, Apple will have a much easier time finding out who gave it up.

This, IMHO is a MUCH better plan than locking content down. Are you really concerned with stopping "piracy" (hell yes I put it in quotes), then stop treating the paying customers like criminals, AND FIND THE ACTUAL "PIRATES"!

Read the article here.
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Analyzing Music's Downward Spiral...

Two interesting articles for you.

First is an examination of the trends facing the music industry at large over at the Wall Street Journal (sample up but subscription needed). Like all "know it all" articles some of the analysis is a little flawed, but with as complicated a market as music, what analysis ISNT going to be a little flawed.


Second is a response to the WSJ over at Business Week, which I think is much more apt at explaining the current trend. Paraphrasing for Aaron Pressman, We buy a lot of shit. A LOT! There just isn't enough time in the day to actually watch/listen/read/play all the shit we buy. Eventually we learn this lesson and buy less shit. Done.

Check out his article here.
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I'm Gonna Buy an Album JUST BECAUSE I CAN: iTunes DRM free ready to go next week?

Apparently EMI is ready to go.
I might actually have to buy something from iTunes. That just feels weird...

"The seeming delay for introducing the new tier of content has been primarily attributed to a desire to offer the entire catalog at once in the unprotected format rather than a gradual rollout. The companies' technicians are simply in the later stages of encoding and hosting the files before they go live, the contact says."


Read the rest here.
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Where I wont go with my Voice: Radiodaddy edition

What a silly reactionary response to the popularity of podcasting...

I'll just let the "Radio Daddy" explain in his own words:

"For years the licensed broadcasters on RadioDaddy have complained about the kids and unprofessional people that run podcasts and internet stations. While there are many exceptions to this, for the most part they were right. So before a flame war begins, let me just say that I have a lot of internet stations on some podcasters whom are friends and they produce highly professional products and services. Unfortunatly with the ease of producing low quality podcasts and internet stations, children and the feable minded have become the majority operators of these. Thus, we have created VoiceDaddy.com as a haven for traditional broadcasters to come and hang out and share their work together."

I've left the misspellings in, "feable minded" indeed.
See folks it's this kind of "you can't play on our playground" kind of mentality that really sparks content consumers up. Traditional media has been in such decline, why not alienate even MORE of the audience. Do they think they're eliminating competition maybe?

Also, such arrogance over a medium they didn't create.

You can read the rest here.
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THIS POST HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AUDIO AT ALL

I took a picture of a bird!

I MET A LIVING LEGEND!!!: Norman Corwin Edition

Yup he's 97, and as sharp as ever.

I got to go hang out at the the Museum of Television and Radio yesterday. AFTRA was wrapping up this years mentoring program by having college students perform a radio play, complete with live sound effects. Of course I'm a sucker for this and had to be there. It was only after RSVP-ing that I realized the play they were performing was an unpublished work from Norman Corwin, and that he would be in attendance. To be honest I only had a cursory understanding of who Corwin was, but I knew enough to know that this was a pretty big deal.

I showed up 90 minutes early.

The play was a funny little romp called "The Strange Affliction", and dealt with a woman who couldn't stop speaking in rhyme, and the students had a fun time performing it. After the play we were then treated to the Academy Award winning documentary about the life of Corwin called "A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin".

As it was also so close to his birthday, a reception was held with a cake and refreshments. My favorite moment was Corwin's proclamation post blowing out the candle on his cake, that he couldn't enjoy the cake because of dietary restrictions, but that it was sweet enough knowing there were only some 500 days left for Bush.

It was a great way to spend an afternoon.

For those not as familiar with Corwin's work, first up, check out these Youtube clips of him speaking, the link should direct you to search results.
Then check out his web page here. It has tons of clips of his work in radio.


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Voice Actors Making a Living

Ya know it's so rare that I read an article that actually gets VO right. All to often I read about how easy it is, or why voices actors are over paid, or some other such nonsense. Just running auditions, I have people jumping around, screaming their guts out, working up a sweat, confiding their darkest secrets, or ripping their hearts out to try and get a laugh. It's not back breaking labor, but it is physically and emotionally exhausting.

The Seattle Times has a really good article by Jack Broom about voice acting today.

"With a dozen people listening in the control room, Carey Bolden is reading a sample script for a cosmetics commercial. She's supposed to sound authoritative, friendly and relaxed — all at the same time — while breezing through terms like "bio-performance intensive clarifying essence" as if she says them every day.

As her sighs and grimaces indicate, this is hard work, but instructor Kathy Levin offers no apology. "If it were easy," says Levin, "everybody could do it."

If you think you have what it takes, go read the rest here!
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Learning Another Language: Lifehacker Edition

Man I LOVE Lifehacker. One of the best blogs on teh intarwebs.

I'm just going to link to their post here about find foreign language podcasts (through Open Culture). I've already put 2 gig worth of Spanish, German, and Italian on my Nano.

Good times!

Go ahead, learn another language, take your pick...
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BUY DIZ WHITE'S BOOK!

Following up on a previous post

Diz White was kind enough to send me a copy and it's a great read. I will be writing up a full review as soon as I'm done with it (SLOWEST READER EVER), but being about two thirds through I have to say it's chock full of excellent info.

Audiobooks Are Getting Hip!

Two quick stories for ya'll in this post.

The first is from Business Week, about the Netflix of audiobooks, Simply Audiobooks.

"Today, the 47-employee Toronto-based company is the most successful independent player in the online audiobook rental market. That market consists of about 10 independent players, including booksfree.com and jiggerbug.com, that compete with mainstream book publishers like Random House as well as offline mom-and-pops operating in brick-and-mortar locations."

Check it out here.

The second is from Open Culture about audiobook pricing becoming more sensible.
"Until recently, the book world applied an irrational logic to downloadable audiobooks and podcasts. As we noted back in February, the paper version of the bestselling business book, The Long Tail, ran consumers $16.47 on Amazon. And yet the cheaper-to-produce audio version implausibly amounted to $31.95 on iTunes and $27.99 on Audible. Did it make sense? Hardly!"
Check it out here.
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Music is becoming DRM free, but what video?

Shelly Palmer asks this question in an opinion write up at Yahoo News.
Now that companies like Amazon and iTunes seem to be in a rush to abandon DRM on music, a lot of people are asking "what about movies?

Shelly writes up some interesting points, but ultimately boils the whole issue down to one of use. She says (and MAN am I paraphrasing here) is that because we listen to music with only partial focus (which I disagree with) and movies take our full attention, that the two formats will continue to be treated differently. Music files equal small and easy to transfer, movies equal big and harder to transfer.

I know she's just bringing up discussion points, but I really don't like it when DRM discussions are over simplified.

Because of simplistic "point boiling" I have a really hard time talking to actors about their work. Quite a few truly believe that 15 year olds downloading files are why there are fewer sales, and they keep calling that "piracy" (thats a whole other nuther post though). No one seems willing to consider that over charging for physical media (and there aren't a lot of options for getting this entertainment) might be one culprit. I would say that paying as much as $20 for a CD is probably what sparked the original Napster, and yet still, immediately following the creation of the original Napster we saw an increase in music sales (before Metallic started suing fans at least). No one seems to think that continual increases in entertainment costs (for the same level of entertainment "quality") might cause someone to consider alternative avenues for acquiring entertainment (both legal and illegal). Lastly I for one am completely fed up with being treated like a criminal for purchasing content, and because I know my way around a computer (you can't imagine the arguments I've had over file sharing, p2p is a distribution method not guaranteed theft, and saying otherwise is just trying to stifle technological advance).

It doesn't matter what the file is.
It doesn't matter how big the file is.
It doesn't matter what format the file is.

The movie industry is making the same mistake the music industry made. It will cost studios, productions, actors, and consumers a lot of money to realize that they are making the same mistakes the music industry made.

I think as soon as companies stop trying to lock consumers out of content (and consider something really smart like watermarking to find exactly WHO is spreading stuff), the sooner we all start making A LOT MORE MONEY!

Read Shelly's article here...
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Bout Time the Unions Got Pissed! FIX RESIDUALS!!!

I know, they're technically "guilds"...

Out of the Hollywood Reporter yesterday, Borys Kit writes up a quick article about the WGA possibly hooking up with SAG and the DGA. I've been hearing grumblings of possible strikes happening, but lately it seems that the heat might be turning up soon.
While it would suck for the company I currently work with, I can't say I blame the unions.
Writers, as well as Actors and Directors, were hosed on home video, cable, DVD, interactive, and look to be getting screwed on VOD and "new media". I'm actually surprised that they didn't consider working together sooner...

"Unwilling to go on record for fear of staking out positions that haven't been officially sanctioned by the guild, a number of writers agreed to step forward on the condition of anonymity. Many already are getting their financial houses in order, others are writing furiously to finish scripts for companies that are stockpiling. But one theme comes through loud and clear, and it's a heated paraphrase of the great writer Paddy Chayefsky: Scribes are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it anymore."I think writers in general are getting sick of being kicked around. There's a lot of fury out there," says one screenwriter who writes for A-listers.
The big issue is money -- specifically, money as it relates to new technology such as Internet downloads and VOD."The model for Internet downloads shouldn't be any different than the model for pay-per-view, or the model for DVDs, or any other means of watching entertainment. What the fuck is the difference how someone watches it? If they're watching it and I've written it, I should get paid for it," the writer says."

Read the rest Here!
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Todd Stashwick Short on Funny or Die

Actually Todd Stashwick tall on Funny or Die, bah-dump-bum. Thanks, I'll be here all week.
This post actually has NOTHING to do with voice over or audio, except for the loose connection that I've recorded Todd, and he does the best damn Bill Murray I've ever heard, EVER.

Todd, as you may know, is currently on 'The Riches' which you should be watching (Eddie Izzard, COME ON!).

SO, without further ado, here's Todd's short 'Cynical Dreamer'....


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Trent Reznor on latest album, "true fans", piracy

I post a lot about Reznor. I'm a pretty big NIN fan, and have been since Downward Spiral. I also really dig on his politics, and really appreciate how forward thinking he can be. Just looking at the recent usb drive debacle/brilliant marketing strategy shows me that he's keeping himself abreast of the market, and trying to find value in it.
Simply put he makes good music, and seems to have a knack for making money.

But even he needs to bow to labels and market forces. Doesn't mean he's happy about it.

In true Reznor fashion, he's surprising/refreshingly candid about the business that pays him.

Taken from the NIN website:

"Posted on [05_13_2007]

As the climate grows more and more desperate for record labels, their answer to their mostly self-inflicted wounds seems to be to screw the consumer over even more. A couple of examples that quickly come to mind:

* The ABSURD retail pricing of Year Zero in Australia. Shame on you, UMG. Year Zero is selling for $34.99 Australian dollars ($29.10 US). No wonder people steal music. Avril Lavigne's record in the same store was $21.99 ($18.21 US).
By the way, when I asked a label rep about this his response was: "It's because we know you have a real core audience that will pay whatever it costs when you put something out - you know, true fans. It's the pop stuff we have to discount to get people to buy."
So... I guess as a reward for being a "true fan" you get ripped off.

* The dreaded EURO Maxi-single. Nothing but a consumer rip-off that I've been talked into my whole career. No more.

The point is, I am trying my best to make sure the music and items NIN puts in the marketplace have value, substance and are worth you considering purchasing. I am not allowing Capital G to be repackaged into several configurations that result in you getting ripped off.

We are planning a full-length remix collection of substance that will be announced soon."


I just plain DIG that!
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The Princesses of Shrek 3

And boy are they funny!

A fun little article out of the Washington Post, where the four "Princesses" of Shrek 3 were supposed to be interviewed by William Booth, but with Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Cheri Oteri, and Amy Sedaris (my fave) all in the same room, Billy-Boy didn't stand a chance.

Really they're supposed to be talking about their voice work in the film, but not much really gets accomplished, and Bill ends up just transcribing his recordings of the "interview". Still, it is a fun read from four very funny women totally taking a piss.

"You're such a guy," Poehler says, looking at your correspondent.

"You'll always find what you're looking for," Sedaris says.

"And Bill found porn," Rudolph says.

"Animated porn," Oteri chirps. "The best kind."

This goes on for a while.

Okay, so what is the movie, which is, of course, totally harmless and rated G, about?

"About 90 minutes," Rudolph says."

Not too shabby...

Read the rest here!

Maggie's voice wasn't Liz Taylor???

I guess I just don't understand.
According to this little zeenews article, Liz Taylor's voice was too sexy to use for Maggie.

Does anyone know more about this?

“She was to play little Maggie, saying her first word. We did 24 takes, but they were always too sexual,” a New York daily quoted Groening, as saying."

Really? Thats ... odd...
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Liam Neeson set to star in ... FALLOUT 3!

First off, when was someone going to tell ME there was going to be a Fallout 3!?!? I'm so farggin behind... sigh...

So yeah, exciting news I think. If you never played a Fallout, then you're missing out. Hopefully '3' maintains the quirky, dark anachronistic charm of the first two (wasn't a big fan of tactics). This would be the game to get me back into role playing games (and wasting hours and hours of my life, Mrs AudioGuy will be thrilled).

legitimate writers to consider gaming. The better the writing, maybe the better the direction. Eventually there will HAVE to be heavy cross over between animation and interactive projects.Again, I'm still hoping against hope, that eventually the video game contract will get re-worked for it to be more favorable to performers. The more A-listers getting in will hopefully more Really, this just means more money for EVERYONE, as gaming is taken more seriously by producers and consumers alike.

Liam Neeson is a perfect actor to help with that...

From Fragland!



****UPDATE****

I dont know what the heck happened up there. Partly the fact that I wrote it at midnight, and had flown that evening, and that I most probably f@hked the formatting with this "teh awwsome" pic of Neeson, but I think the point still comes across, so friggen deal. I'm some AUDIO guy, not some "perfect document formatting never make mistakes punching out my blog thing" guy.


Geez...

COOL FREE PROGRAM! Sonic Visualizer! Free!

Holy crap this one is good.
I know I've become impatient when loading Sound Forge is inconvenient for a quick analysis of a sound.

This product seeks to eliminate that.

I've just loaded it up, and thrown some voice work in. It's quick. It's clean. It does just what I need, and also has the ability to load plugins.

From their site:

"Sonic Visualiser is Free Software distributed under the GNU General Public License. The 1.0 release is available now in source code form or as binaries for Linux, OS/X, and Windows."

Pick it up here!
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Listen to your ipod and DIE!!!

If you have a pacemaker that is.

And, well, maybe not even then.

So I guess the title of this post could be a little misleading. I guess...

Already kinda old news on teh intarwebs, and I'm kinda confused as to why the ipod is being singled out here. I'm not a big Mac fan, but I do use a first gen Nano, and it's nice. Though I cant help but think that as gadgets become more and more "fashionable", wont we just plain be seeing more and more interference, not just with medical equipment, but with ... well ... everything?

Anywho, I'm curious to see what would happen with a Zune, or an iRiver, or a Creative, or a Sandisk, or a Rio, or a Toshiba, or a....

Read the story Here!

I'm on Vacation!

FOR A WHOLE WEEKEND!
Spending the next two days in Albuquerque, and gorging myself on the food here.

So much chili (red or green baby)!

So Good!

FREE PLUGIN VST!!! Sound Like a Dalek!

So yeah,

If you've been reading, you'd know that a couple days ago, I expressed a concern over not being able to make myself sound like a Dalek.

I have now corrected this.

NDC Plugs have a great freebie ring modulator to play with (called "The Modulator 2"), and with a little simple tweaking (and judicious use of a good compressor) YOU TOO can sound like a Dalek.

SCHWEET!

Go get the kit here!













Just make sure you clip your breath and room noise out before compression...
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And We Shall Mourn its Passing: Cassette Tape Edition

Curry's in the UK is calling it quits on the cassette tape.

It's done.

I find it odd that I will actually miss the format. My first albums were on tape (I'm just young enough to have missed Vinyl and 8-Track). Crafting mix tapes took some skill. And, I had to want to listen to the music I was collecting, had to have some patience.

On tape, I would only listen to my favorite albums.
On CD, I would only listen to my favorite songs.
On MP3, I only listen to my favorite parts of songs.

From The Telegraph:

"The day of the audio cassette is over, it was announced today by Currys, one of Britain’s biggest retail electrical stores which said it would stop selling blank tapes when existing stocks are exhausted.

Peter Keenan, managing director of Currys, which has more than 500 stores in the UK, expressed nostalgia for the passing of an evocative piece of technology but insisted that the audio cassette had been overtaken by the digital age.

“For today’s MP3 generation, it’s just a few clicks of the mouse to achieve what’s arguably a better outcome,” he maintained."

Read the rest here!
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Brice Carrington Releases HAWT SFX, but are they his?

Following up on a recent posting I made about Carrington, a commenter (hey SteveLee) alerted me to the fact that Carrington has misrepresented himself and his work before.

I tend to not endorse products, so much as alert people to their existence, but this was enough for me to amend my previous posting.

I must state that I have absolutely no reason to think that there is any misrepresentation of work in this collection, but it just further serves to warn sound designers to watch their creations like a hawk.

From a previous incident (which you can read about here), here was Carrington's explanation:

"I am Brice Carrington. I am writing this note to address comments made about me and to state some facts about my work. All the statements made that say directly that I have NEVER worked on a film or have won an academy award for sound is absolutely true. I have never worked on a motion picture nor have I ever won an academy award. The fact is, I am a sound designer, and I make recreations of sounds found in films and sell them to the public through a brand called Ultimate FX. I am completely responsible for all the misleading or incorrect statements made about me in the press. My effort was to create press for the brand Ultimate FX, which I am the author. I did this foolishly. This is a library where I have made my OWN versions of movie sounds. I have no association with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. I commemorate the Oscars by creating a version of the main characters in films that win Oscars. Like in Jurassic Park, we make a T-Rex using hogs in water, lion growls, a lawn mower and elephant roars. That is My version. I sell this and other sounds complete with the stems to consumers. This is a lawful enterprise, but misleading the public or allowing mis-characterizations is wrong. I am issuing an apology for making all of the misleading or mischaracterizations of my work. I apologize to those in the sound industry and the makers of the original works and studios that distribute them for this offense. To correct this, I will ask for retractions were appropriate in the press. I will also refrain from any further public comments and allow the brand and the product to speak for itself through traditional means of sales and marketing. To those in the sound industry and those specifically I have offended, you have a right to be upset, and I offer my sincere apology. I am sorry that you had to spend one minute of your time addressing this. b"

Spidey 3...

So we just go back from it.

It's ok. I can't say I loved it, but if you haven't seen it yet, it is worth a matinee. I wont bore you with a review. There are plenty of those out there.

As this is a blog about sound, I guess I should talk about that.

The sound was good was good, but I can't say I loved it.

Really everything kinda felt generic or sloppy. Sandman was nothing special, just 'sand sifting' sounds. Music and explosions were cool, but I have to say when it came to Venom I was SEVERELY disappointed. Topher is cool and all, but he's just NOT dark enough ... AT ALL. Venom as a character is the melding of the symbiote AND Eddie, two identities working together. They refer to themselves as a 'they' or 'we'. Do they use that for any cool effect? Nope. They tweak his voice, but it's barely noticeable.

I hate to say it, but the voice from the cartoon was MUCH better. Chorusing, pitch shifting, a little reverb and flange to spice it up, made for a great "dual consciousness" kinda sound.
Topher needed a little help there.

So yeah, again it was OK.

But I can't say I loved it...

THIS IS SPINAL TAP! FREE!!!

This is why I LOVE "teh intarwebs".

I wont blabble, go watch the short. It's a "sequel" to the original 'Tap', and it's being hosted on MSN.

Enjoy!

Nothing Compares 2 U

No really.
Nothing.

I actually really like this song. I think it's one of the most vulnerable and powerful pieces of modern music ever recorded.
Here's a great article on the song's technical creation.

I loved seeing that they did the recording on an AKG414, which has become one of my favorite mics of late.
AKG C 414 B-XL II Condenser Microphone
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Doctor Who Rules!

So Mrs. AudioGuy and I just finished season two of Dr. Who, and man is it a great show. I sobbed like a little girl for the K-9 episode.
One of the fun things about this revival for me though is seeing the show maintain it's tongue in cheek roots, while also modernizing. Seeing the updates to the Daleks and Cybermen has been really interesting, and of course after every episode I try to make myself sound like one of the villains.

I've gotten pretty good at cybermen. Pitch drop, EQ, Flange, and smooth it out. Bam! Cyberman! I'm actually having a spot of trouble with the Daleks. I know there is some upper end EQ, and some ring modulation, but I can't figure out the doses. Also there might just be more performance involved too. Cybermen are pretty flat.

I'm thinking about holding a contest for best monster/sci-fi/etc editing here on this blog. Just always been one of my favorite things to do, and it seems like it would be a lot of fun.

So for you Doctor Who fans, here's a great older article about the shows sounds, and here's a link to a page full of awesome sounds (I use quite a few on my 6700, good times).

Have fun!
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Not a big fan of his films, but damned if his toys don't rule

There are only a few organizations I would kill to work for (Google! Start using Sound!), and Skywalker Sound is most certainly one of them.

My gear lust has risen to an all new height though, when I saw that they've nabbed themselves a DFC Gemini.

"The Academy Award-winning DFC Gemini was the first full-scale multi-operator Digital Film Console. It has rapidly established itself as the premier choice in Hollywood, often with the vast majority of the top-grossing films of the year internationally being mixed on it. Some filmmakers are so impressed with the console's performance that they give it an end credit in the movie. From the outset, the DFC Gemini was designed for optimum mix performance. At the heart of the DFC Gemini is the world's most powerful DSP mix engine, capable of delivering the legendary Neve sound across 1,000 audio signal paths at 96 kHz/24-bit in a single, high-resolution DFC signal-processing tower. No other digital film console can offer the sheer power required to handle the demands of tomorrow's blockbusters. The DFC Gemini is laden with features that take film sound to a new level. They include TFT Channel display, the Encore Plus automation system, Neve EQ, Dynamics and Bass Enhancement plug-ins with linked dynamics, expanded 12 Stem Mixing, and complete integrated machine control."


1000 AUDIO SIGNALS!!! Really?!?! WHY?!?!

I WANT THAT!

HOW THE HECK DID I MISS THIS!?!? - Academy of Motion Pictures Edition

Damn it!
I'm seriously pissed. The Academy does an examination of sound effects throughout film history, highlighting films that have had serious impact on the way we watch (listen to) movies, AND I FIND OUT JUST IN TIME FOR TOTAL RECALL!?!?!

So if you're uber slow like me then you've already missed 'The French Connection' and 'Jaws'. BOO! I know! It DOES suck!

Anywho, I'm hoping to salvage this a bit by catching this:

"The “Sound, Camera, Action!” series will culminate on May 17 with “The Sound behind the Image,” a program, hosted by Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt and 19-time Academy Award-nominated sound mixer and Academy governor Kevin O’Connell.

“The Sound behind the Image” will explore the extraordinary impact of sound in the history of the action-adventure genre and pay tribute to the sound design of the 1977 Oscar-winning classic “Star Wars.” A panel discussion with key members of the “Star Wars” sound crew will be moderated by O’Connell."

For $5, how can you go wrong?

Check it out, maybe you'll see me there.

Dont laugh.

I've been working out...

Sound Like Hendrix?

With a piece of software? Really?
Kinda reminds me of that old joke "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"

With all of the mic and amp modeling packages out there, I guess I don't understand why anyone would pay almost $400 on a 1/4" to USB adapter and some amp modeling software.


"The combination of AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix(TM) and StealthPlug represents a huge step forward in guitar technology allowing, for the first time, every guitarist to easily plug into their computer and hear the classic sounds that inspired one of the most influential guitarists of all time, Jimi Hendrix."

Oh...
I guess that ... explains(?) it ...

Read the rest here if you're interested.
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Brice Carrington Releases HAWT SFX

Super hawt yo!
Since my early days doing sound for college theater, I've never been a huge fan of canned SFX. I've trolled through CD after CD of crappy SFX compilations, that most (9 for 10) times I give up, and record my own.

That being said, every now and then you find a gem. This collection looks like it could be one of those gems.

"Carrington has always wanted to make professional sound effects you hear at the movies available to consumers and independent filmmakers, at an affordable price. This is not a new concept, but our approach to it is. It may not be popular to some, but recreating the sounds heard in movies and making them available to consumers makes sense. To show consumers how to make their own sound effects with the click of a mouse is a natural progression in amateur movie making and could be a great asset to the independent film maker."

Check out the full article here!

Quick Follow up to My Last Post...

Sound Forge 9 is good. VERY good.
But if you've already got SF8, and say a good sequencer like Acid, then I'm not really sure it's worth the upgrade price.
Here's what's frustrating. I've already spent money on 8, and the noise removal plugin. Upgrading to 9 only gives me multi track.
I can't really justify that cost, though I really want to have that latest and greatest.

If you don't have SF8, GO GET THIS NOW!