Showing posts with label bootleg recording. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bootleg recording. Show all posts

Friday, January 4, 2008

News Sound Bites

Blu-Ray BD profile 1.1, any good? Only two players can use it right now anyway...

Sony sees the light, and drops DRM, is the last major label to do so!

Sirius denied merger, in the red $1.3 billion, subscribers up 38%, good year?

Chuck D wants Def Jam, has 4 point plan to fix it!

Variety: Hollywood discovers Voice Acting more than just "talking"...

CNet slams Washington Post for not correcting RIAA story.

Guardian delivers HUGE collection of niche music sites!

Upgrading your computer monitor might cause DRM conflict in Vista, block Netflix, invalidate other legitimate purchases, only bother paying customers...

Deaf Porn? (via Wired, links on following site might be NSFW)

Avoid "Red Sauce" on your iTunes, buy the real thing instead...

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Sound Design tips from Create Digital Music

FOLEY IS FUN!

Create Digital Music has some great sound design tips up on their site. What's great is they also include some pictures, so you can see what's involved in getting sounds for media. Pretty funny stuff too.

It's all really crazy, and is some of my favorite recording. We all know the basics, punching a steak for realistic body hits, breaking celery for bone and tissue damage, but I had to come up with some fun ones for my last animation project. Sound effects rule!

Here are just a few.

A slinky and a dollar store toy microphone made great high tension lines and steel cabling.







Slamming a bottle of juice into our apartment's stove became the footsteps of a giant killer robot (and pissed off the neighbors).





Our old ink jet printer/scanner became the motors and servos of the killer robot (think robocop).







And of course there's our in house space alien:
hangin of the edge


Check out Create Digital Music's article for even more great sound design tips!

Thanks D4Dirty!

Monday, September 3, 2007

Rare Final Lennon and McCartney Recording Session (Bootleg MP3)



IS THIS SERIOUS!?!?!

Ok I'm not a huge Beatles fan. Huge appreciation for their work, but seriously the only albums I enjoy are Abbey Road and Sgt Pepper. I had never heard of this though...



"A Toot and a Snore in '74 is a rare bootleg album of the final recording session in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney played together, which gained wider prominence when McCartney made reference to the session in a 1997 interview. This is the only known post-Beatles recording of Lennon and McCartney, it has become something of a collector’s item..."
Click on the READ MORE link to check out Licorice Pizza's write up, Wikipedia article, and links to the actual recordings.



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I'm downloading NOW!