I got a very cheap wired/wireless mic from Wish.com. I plan was to have a cheap “disposable” microphone for uses where I don’t want risking the more expensive microphone. Basically the product looks OK. The construction is plastic, but till feels acceptable for the price (less than 10 Euros on sale). If I get this →
This is how you remake a Hollywood blockbuster with zero budget (or almost). Studio 188 is a group of people that are creating low cost movie trailers. They say they have have is imagination. They have made several quite funny versions of well known movie trailers and posted the results to YouTube to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX3q2gub8M8NVVu4bCNIQ2g →
Today there are festivals in more parts of the world than ever before–and ticket prices are higher than ever before. Why are music festivals so expensive? The reason is that big stars maximise their take from tours. Besides getting the start to the festival, there is lots of technology on those festivals and many safety →
I have had for a long time an AKG D60 S microphone. The AKG D60S is advertised as an unidirectional semiprofessional dynamic microphone with smooth frequency response, a rugged all-metal body, an on/off switch, and removable wire-mesh grill. It was proven to be a decent semiprofessional all-round microphone with hypercardioid polar pattern. Hypercardioid microphones are →
https://www.boredpanda.com/photography-reality-behind-the-scenes-calob-castellon/ We are mesmerized by the beauty and quality of some Instagram photographs. And it often leaves us wondering if all these people have personal professional photographers and a free pass to a fancy studio. It appears that is not always the case… This article probes that quite unexpected everyday places can create an out-of-this-world →
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/may/16/jason-shulman-films-condensed-into-a-single-photo-frame-in-pictures Jason Shulman photographs entire movies with ultra-long exposures, creating impressionist photo masterpieces in the process. →
Here are some links on transporting audio signals over twisted pair wiring: Digital PreSonus eliminates the snake with a single CAT5 cable #105 – Audinate AVIO Dante Audio Adapter: First Look & Review Analog #89 – SoundTools CAT Box Snake & SuperCAT CAT5e Review Using Cat5 cable for analog, AES3 and ClearCom signals with →
Here are some audio and video trends for 2019: The global Hi-Fi Systems market was valued at million US$ in 2018 and is expected to grow. EISA Awards has selected Hi-Fi product category winners, but I did not see anything really fancy new innovations that would excite me there. The Hi-Fi speaker market has seen considerable →
Decades old MIDI is going to advance with new major specification change. https://www.midi.org/articles-old/the-midi-manufacturers-association-mma-and-the-association-of-music-electronics-industry-amei-announce-midi-2-0tm-prototyping The MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) and the Association of Music Electronics Industry (AMEI) announce MIDI 2.0TM Prototyping The MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) and AMEI (the Japanese MIDI association) have finalized the core features and name for the next generation MIDI protocol: MIDI →
For some time it seems that analogue video has seemed die in many applications when digital technologies have replaced the analog video technology. For example the trend in video surveillance systems that old legacy analogue composite video systems are replaces with digital camera interfaces that range from SDI to IP video. In normal video systems →