Full Site Index

Hey Guys and Gals,
This is a menu to all the links i have posted on my blog in some kind of order so you can find your way around. All my blogs are written in my own words from various sources from books, internet sites and videos to build up a true library for anyone interested in sound with a focus on film.

Microphones
- How do condenser microphones work?
- How do dynamic microphones work?
- How do carbon microphones work?
- Digital Microphones
- Microphone Polar Patterns

Other Equipment
- Parabolic reflectors
- Sennhieser EW 112-p G3 ENG Set Radio Mics (video demo)
- VU, PPM, Digital Meters
- What is the difference between balanced and unbalanced cables?

General Understanding and definitions
- 6 Sound Questions Answered Part 1
- Sound basics: what is Sound? Frequency? Amplitude?
- What is bit depth?
- What is sample rate?
- What are the right levels to record?
- Meta Data
- Sound Pressure Level and Decibels explained
- What is the difference between Room Tone, Ambience and Wild Sound?
- What is mAh rating on batteries?
- Reverberation time
- Refraction
- Diffraction
- Transducer
- Phasing
- Wave Interference
- Lossless compared with lossy data compression
- Dither and Quantization Error
- ADR, Looping, Dubbing…- PCM – Pulse Code Modulation

Laws and Rules
- The Inverse Square Law Of Sound- Sampling Theorem
- Ohms and Amps

General Video References
- Production Sound Mixer Interview Video Playlist
- Worldizing by Walter Murch
- The Camera That Changed The World (limited time)
- The Wilhelm Scream

History
- Oldest Recording (1860) Unearthed and Played
- Celebrating Heinrich Rudolf Hertz’s 155th Birthday

Speakers
- Difference between Dolby 5.1 and DTS 5.1 speaker systems
- What is 7.1 Surround?

Enjoy and feel free to comment on any of them,

Thanks,

Matt Price