As someone who occasionally uses the telephone to interview people for work, the idea of using a professional service to ensure recording quality actually sounds pretty good. Call Trunk is such a service, offering the ability to easily record phone conversations from both landlines and mobiles, and storing the recording online for easy access. More »
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What’s does being shipped sound like? A student at the Royal College of Art in London shoved a dictaphone inside a parcel and sent it off to Helsinki to find out. Here, charmingly animated, is what it heard. More »
One of the few things I learned at Uni that is actually useful in my day job is that recording a telephone conversation is only legal with the consent of all parties involved in the conversation. So there’s a lot of potential for criminal activity with this new service that records your conversation and emails you an MP3 of the call. More »
If, like me, you thought there was something a little off with the performance of John Williams’s Oscar-grabbing inauguration theme, you were right. What we heard was a recording made two days prior.
Back in April we discovered a new music recording program from Celemony Software that could potentially revolutionise the music industry. It allows recording engineers to isolate and manipulate individual notes (as opposed to an entire chord) from a performance (no matter how lame) and turn it into a flawless piece of music. Celemony has revealed new details about DNA that claim the program will be able to handle “complete mixes (rather than a simple piano progression, for example),” but stresses that the more complex the job, the less likely you are to isolate individual notes.
