MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

it is possible that the microphone could be damaged, most microphones use a very thin sheet of plastic (i think its plastic usually) called a diapgragm to pick up the sound, this can be very delicate and can be damaged by high sound pressure levels. If its a built in camcorder mic it might use a dif...

What? what is a music library matching program?

I use GPO and EWQL both regularly and I recommend them both.

I was wrong about finale, its overture that comes free with GPO.

Is the hum caused by the actual motion of the tape machine ? or is it electrical hum from the mains ? if its electrical from the mains - it may be possible to filter or EQ out the hum. If youre in America i think the frequency to filter out would be 60hz (is that the mains freq in the US ? i may be ...

Good Point Matt. Same applies with sample rates, CD quality is 44,100 Hz. But professional recording equipment can record up to 192,000 Hz. Technically any sample rate higher than 40,000 Hz will not give any audible improvement (to human ears) But Ive always wondered if higher sample rates make it e...

There are a few (relatively) cheap sampled orchestras which are easy to use. The two most popular; Garritan Personal Orchestra - http://www.garritan.com/GPO.html East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Silver Edition - http://www.soundsonline.com/sophtml/details.phtml?sku=EW-161 They work with Mi...