News Sound Bites - RIAA Sucks?, Groove Shark Competes With Pandora, VOLTRON!!!, and More

Hey all! Some cool links for you to check out!

Relativity Media is going to take a '300' style crack at a live action Voltron! Could Robotech be far behind?

Lifehacker has the skinny on audio editor WavePad. They compare it to Audacity, which is a pretty high mark to be comparing things to.

Steve Guttenberg over at the Audiophiliac has a great editorial up about how expensive audio equipment isn't as expensive as you think.

New Media Gear takes a look at the Olympus LS-10 Portable Recorder. They seem pretty positive on it.

In the wake of internet radio imploding, GrooveShark is adding a Pandora-like player to it's P2P service.

In other "crappy music industry" news, it looks like record labels aren't happy with music being used in games. Oh sure, they're happy to reap the rewards of greater exposure for their artists, they just want more money for doing ... well ... nothing ... I guess.

And in even MORE music industry news, has the RIAA shut down Muxtape? Better stick with Mixwit for now.

Voice Over News Sound Bites - Mics, Bob Souer, Stephen Fry, SAG & AMPTP, and more...

Couple quick stories I think you'll dig...

David Houston has written a great FIVE PAGE story on getting into voice over. It's posted up at Helium. Go read it!

I've been very excited by RODE releasing the NTG-3, a $700 shotgun mic to compete against the MKH416, and Ty Ford has a CRAZY in depth comparison between the two. Does RODE have what it takes to unseat the Senny? Found via VOMicTest.

VoiceOverXtra interviews Bob "The Man" Souer (nickname mine). If you've read anything about VO blog-wise, you've probably read Bob. He's got a great out look on this business, and is quite possibly one of the most gracious writters I've ever met. Check it out for some nice insight!

I've just recently found the gloriousness which is "A Bit of Fry and Laurie", so I was mega-stoked to here that Stephen Fry has just signed on to do Fable 2. Woot!

Lastly, Hollywood Reporter has released the transcripts of the SAG/AMPTP negotiations. Interesting stuff...

News Sound Bites - Mostly VO Stuff Today...

Scott Brick is giving you an audiobook free sample! Click to hear the first chapter of Lord Foul's Bane by Stephan R. Donaldson! Scott's the man! I would listen to him narrate paint drying!

io9.com is quickly becoming one of my favorite places on the web to hang out. They're feeding my sound design obsession with this awesome mega-post of the most iconic sound effects in scifi history!

In other audiobook news, Voiceregistry has a two part interview with Alfred Molina, on his work in audiobooks, VO, and narration! Part 1 Part 2

Will text to speech software replace voice over actors? Join the discussion at VOX Daily!

I'm SO STOKED for Iron Man, it's kinda silly. Robert Downey Jr is the PERFECT pick for Tony Stark. Gaming Today has a great behind the scenes video on the making of the Iron Man video game staring Downey.
Check it out below!


Iron Man Behind the Scenes Video 2 - High
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News Sound Bites - First Week of March

Audioholics test expensive Monster cables against wire coat hanger. I wonder what sounded better?

Trent Reznor to release more music online. Still trying to figure out how to make money on the deal.

Video game revenue overtakes music revenue in the UK. No one's all that surprised...
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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...

News Sound Bites - First Batch of 2008

IGN gives Dragon Ball Z: Budokai for the Wii an A+ for voice and sound, about a C- overall. I'm currently watching the Frieza Saga just for kicks...

Voices.com has released an incredible "State of the Business" for Voice acting. Read it. Learn it. Live it.

CNet (via Reuters) wants you to host your own talk radio show, over the internet.

The voting is in, and Idolator has finally delivered us their worst album art of 2007.

Gamasutra has a great article on the challenges getting artists and coders to communicate when producing videogames.

The Voice of the London Tubes, Emma Clarke (known for telling passengers to "mind the gap"), was dropped after satirizing her Tube gig. The press surrounding the incident has boosted her profile, and she can now be heard on a popular Sat-Nav.

Yeah I decided to make the entire last story a link. What wanna fight about it?

News Sound Bites - Whole ton-o-stuff coming back from XMas

Yeah I gotta bunch, so lets jump in.

Jalopnik told me that Plantronics thinks you look stupid with that BT headset. Put it in the new Plantronics car charger when not in use.

Nokia's crushing on Apple, wants to make sweet music iTunes downloading babies.

Speakers = Sexy? AudioJunkies thinks so, has list of top 15 speaker sets with the curves to compete with your girlfriend.

Blizzard, your favorite WoW/Starcraft developers, are starting a podcast on game development.

In other BT Headset news, Engadget has the scoop on the Adtec AD-HSM10, one of tiniest headsets I've ever seen. I shall call it "the button" (instead of the nonsensical string of letters and numbers - Come on people! Consumers buy NAMES, they buy iPods and Zunes and ROKRs and Walkmans not "AD-HSM10's"! HOW DO YOU EVEN SAY THAT‽‽‽), and be mad that we'll probably never see it stateside.

FreewareGenius lets us know about Tunestor, a free Firefox plugin that automates downloading an mp3, and putting it right into iTunes. I don't use iTunes, so this is useless to me. I'm only writing about it for you, my faithful readers. I'm teh selfless!

Was my post about SpokenText not enough to sate the Text to Speech beast in you? DownloadSquad gives us another TtS to satisfy that "read it to me" urge.

Toon Zone interviews the original Speed Racer and Trixie!

ay-dee-ache-es-em-tenza ... nope still sucks... it's "the button" now ... I've decided!

News Sound Bites - high end audio, Telcos given immunity, art of audiobooks, more...

Hey lets get to it!

The Consumerist (through Slate) takes a look at high end audio systems. I think it's funny to do that as most people listen to some form of compressed audio. Even CD's (to an extent) are not full representations of the sounds we hear.

Wired's Threat Level kindly informs us that our government is getting ready to sell us out again, by offering amnesty to Telecoms that spy on us, without the involvements of the courts, on behalf of the American government. Yay! GOOOOOOO WARRANTLESS!!!!

I love reading Katherine Powers' audiobook reviews over at Book World and The Washington Post. This link is out to four more short reviews to check out.

Martin Jarvis makes this book a greater pleasure to listen to than to read, his extraordinary vocal characterizations transfusing it with life. Though one of his American accents is a mutinous mish-mash with a will of its own, its bearer is, fortunately, bumped off early on.

Ahhhh Classic!

Sound Designers, Puremagnetik has released their Technosphere toolbox. I'll let Sonicstate tell you about it:

Puremagnetik has released Technosphere, a sound design toolbox of over 100 sonic textures and composer effects. Produced from a composite of live field recordings, studio instruments and intensive effect processing, Puremagnetik say that Technosphere brings a unique palette of soundscapes, transition effects and scoring tools to the Puremagnetik catalog.

If you're looking for even more Voice and Audio news. Check out The Voice Over Times, which I believe just went live today. I've already checked it out, and they've got some decent talent writing articles, and some very helpful content. That is, go check them out AFTER you've finished reading through my archives...

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