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Table Of Contents
 The History of SFX Wrapped Up in One
Company: The BBC
A PML Market Check: Chicago
SmartSound Partners With Megatrax
for New Collection
FirstCom Puts Up New Flash
Site
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Library
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What's New
The History of SFX Wrapped Up
in One Company: The BBC
Hey, what's with you guys? We take one issue of The
Sampler off from our interminable SFX history and the first email I
get is, "Liked the story on Frank Serafine, but where's the SFX
history?" Aren't you the people who slept through history in high
school? Weren't you busy thinking about taking radios apart when
everyone else was studying the Battle of Hastings? (That's England,
silly, not upstate New York.) OK, this issue's installment isn't,
strictly speaking, another SFX history lesson, but it does deal with an
organization that has been a driving force in the field forever,
it seems, and whose archive does span the entire recorded history of
SFX. I'm talking, of course, about the BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The BBC's legendary sound archive includes effects, voices, and music
that date back to very beginnings of recorded sound at the end of the
19th century. Through its deep involvement with the production of
television programming over the past several decades, the BBC has also
been at the forefront of creative effects generation. Though we in
America often think of English television as somehow staid and
conservative, the opposite is true: The BBC has produced a number of
programs through the years that have employed very creative sound
elements, and all of that has become part of the BBC archives, as well.
To read the rest of this article, click here.
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Inside Info
A PML Market Check:
Chicago
In our ongoing, highly informal, and completely
non-scientific survey of which production music libraries are being
used
most by leading commercial post facilities, we thought it would be fun
to head out to Chicago—long the Midwest's center for radio and
television production—and check in with a few studio there. There
are certainly a zillion to choose from, and business appears to be
brisk
through the region these days.
Our first call was to CRC (Chicago Recording Company) which has been
a leading facility in the area for many years in numerous aspects of
recording and post. When I reached studio manager Chris Shepherd and
asked him which PMLs are getting heavy usage at CRC, he chuckled and
noted, "You have to understand, we use dozens and dozens; we have a
basement just filled with them and we also now have lots of hard drives
filled with them. We try to keep it all accessible on a central sever
because it makes it easier for our guys to catalog and everything, but
it comes in so fast and there's so much of it, sometimes we don't even
get it up on our server before it's already in use." To read the
rest
of this article, click here.
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Music Library/Sound Effects News
SmartSound Partners With
Megatrax for New Collection
At NAB earlier in the month, SmartSound
Software, one of the leading providers of soundtrack creation
technology for visual content creators (profiled in The Sampler recently), and Megatrax, one of
Hollywood 's premier production music libraries for film, television,
advertising, and multimedia, announced a partnership to bring a new
music library to the high-end film and video market. The Scene
will launch in June, and combines Megatrax's high-quality needle-drop
music library with SmartSound's innovative technology. To read the
rest of this article, click here.
FirstCom Puts Up New Flash
Site
Also at NAB, PML giant FirstCom Music, which was mentioned in the Chicago
story above, announced the launch of its all new, Flash-based website.
According to the company, the site is designed for professional
producers who are into more time for producing and less time looking
for
the right music. "The new FirstCom site makes browsing and searching
our
vast catalog totally intuitive," says Ken Nelson, VP/executive
producer,
FirstCom Music. "You have the option of scanning CDs as you would in
your own library, or using a powerful new MusiQuick interface and
drilling down your search to very specific keywords and descriptions.
Best of all, details and downloads are easily accessible from anywhere
on the site." To read the rest of this article, click here.
Got some news about your production music or sound
effects library company you want to share with our readers? Send them
to
me, your humble and subservient editor/work slave, Blair Jackson: blair@blairjackson.com.
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