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The success of Mobile recording – Part 2

December 31, 2010

After arriving in Melbourne for another challenging mobile recording we set up and worked with what we had been given. For more info on the issues and limitations that we had to work with check this out.

The tracking days and nights went well, and after finding some curtains and carpet to throw around the large [...]

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Mobile recording, DIY recording, Live recording – The challenge

December 31, 2010

Mobile, location audio or live recording whether it be for a band, a tv show or a film is always very interesting and often quite challenging. This particular mobile audio production project was no different and I loved it! Ashleigh Southam writes fantastically eclectic soundtrack style musical compositions that would equally be at home as [...]

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Kids, Sport, TV and a whole lot of fun

October 15, 2010

Audio post production for tv and film is something that the sitting room recording studios has been doing more of in the last 2 years and I must say that I bloody love it! We were lucky enough to score the audio post production job for Push Play this year. It was heaps of fun [...]

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An Unfaithful album recording

October 15, 2010

Earthquakes don’t like country music, who knew?
The Unfaithful Ways were so close to finishing the recording and mixing of their debut album up at The Sitting Room recording studios just as the dreaded quake struck Christchurch and temporarily dampened proceedings. Four weeks on however and it appears that nothing will hold back it’s release, which [...]

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Mature Pine harvest – DIY recording success?

October 15, 2010

DIY recording success?
Pine have been one of Christchurch and New Zealand’s leaders in the indie pop revolution and a few months ago we finished up the recording and mixing of their latest album ‘Books and Magazines’.
This particular recording project was not only one of the last albums to come out of the studio (pre earthquake) [...]

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Audio Post Production – Who cares

August 16, 2010

Audio Post Production for TV and Film.. Who cares?
When you think about it as a % your movie or tv watching experience surely depends on the sound about 50% as the visuals also about 50%, right? . The finer details could be argued that either is slightly more important at given times or depending on [...]

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Audio post-production: ADR recording

August 16, 2010

ADR and Hell Pizza
Audio post production, Sound fx, the soundtrack and audio post mixing for film and TV is often under estimated and overlooked by the general public in the finished product. Often if the music and audio post production mix is done REALLY well it’s designed to not be noticed, in fact it’s [...]

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How to shoot, film edit and audio post produce: Zombie deaths

August 15, 2010

Shooting
For those who haven’t been involved in film or audio post production for film, shooting, editing and mixing this amount of footage of this calibre is no easy feat. In fact it’s a time consuming and costly process, but once again Logan and Katie have managed to ace this and the proof is simply [...]

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Deliver Me to Hell – An interactive adventure

August 5, 2010

Some of you may have seen this but I really wanted to share some thoughts on a project we’ve been involved with recently.  The hell pizza interactive online adventure involved the cream of the crop in the south islands leading up and coming film and audio post production studios and individuals.
So what is it that [...]

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What have we become? Apple’s new iProTools?

January 23, 2010

It seems as though the world is turning faster and faster, I’m hardly able to keep up. Whether it’s the latest obscure indie music video that’s storming the web, the latest iphone app or even just the latest and fastest way to get weather updates, these days one must have a full time ‘ear to [...]

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