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Table Of Contents
 Online SFX: The Biggest Keeps Getting
Bigger
Music Grows in the Production
Garden
Star Wars SFX: Mixing
a Masterpiece
Search
Millimeter's Music Library
What's New
Online SFX: The Biggest Keeps
Getting Bigger
Last time, we profiled the BBC's impressive and
wide-ranging SFX collection and mentioned that one of the places online
where those sounds could be auditioned and purchased was sound-effects-library.com. Well, scouring the
website got me curious about that outfit, so I dialed the company's
London headquarters and talked to managing director Lloyd Billing to
find out more.
"Actually, the company is much more than just the online sound effects,
though that's certainly a big part of it," Billing says. "We're owned
by
a company called The Tape Gallery, which specializes in soundtracks
for TV, cinema, and radio commercials. We have a large audio
post-production facility in Soho [London] with five studios." The
facility's post spaces offer a plethora of state-of-the-art gear,
including mixing desks such as the AMS Neve Logic 2; the Soundtracs DS3 and SSL Omnimix models; hard disk
recording systems like the Audiofile, Synclavier, and NED PostPro; and a wide selection
of
top outboard gear. To read the rest of this article, click here.
Inside Info
Music Grows in the Production
Garden
The San Antonio, Texas-based library company Production Garden
Music got its start nearly two decades ago when a radio production
and management veteran named Mel Taylor came along. "[I] looked at what
was around and decided there was a need for a quality, affordable
production music library," Taylor says. "In those days there weren't as
many [libraries] as there are today, and a lot of what was out there
was
in this sort of dull 'canned music' style. So we came out with The
Production Garden, which was a small package of six discs, and we
had a very good response to that. Then we kept adding volumes and grew
from there.
"Obviously the industry has matured a lot since then and offers more
serious music, much of it centered around the sorts of music that you'd
hear in films and in mainstream media," Taylor continues. "The quality
and diversity has improved tremendously, and there are more outlets
that
need music than ever before. People are using so many forms of media
now—there are more broadcast and cable channels, more radio
stations; more of everything. People are using music on the Web, of
course, and even the world of corporate video production has changed
dramatically: It used to just be bigger corporations that would [make
films and videos], but now that putting together a non-linear digital
editing studio is a fraction of the cost a decade ago, more and more
smaller companies are plugging in some kind of audio/video department,
and we're tapping into those places and into private video producers."
To read the rest of this article, click here.
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Hollywood Inspiration
 Star Wars SFX: Mixing a
Masterpiece
So, here I sit in my office, wearing my vintage C-3PO
T-shirt and Admiral Akbar boxer shorts (he's the guy who looks like a
space trout), reeking of Chewbacca after-shave and drinking margaritas
from a mug shaped like Darth Vader's helmet. I've been told I look like
a cross between Brad Pitt and Jabba the Hutt, but I'm trying not let it
go to my head. Anyway, here's an exclusive scoop for Sampler
readers only: There's going to be a new Star Wars film opening
next week! They've tried to keep the news under wraps—absolutely no
publicity!—but somehow the information leaked out to me! Can't
anyone keep a secret anymore?
But I'm not here to make cheap, cynical jokes. Or maybe I am, but I
also
have another point: I truly want to salute the Star Wars series
for the endlessly creative SFX work of the sound crew, headed by Ben
Burtt, over the course of the past quarter of a century. The original
Star Wars, and its five sequels, changed the way we hear movies
and influenced and inspired at least two generations of audio
professionals. To read the rest of this article, click here.
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