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Making a bee line to field recording
When I was approached about doing this review, I was a bit unsure as to whether I was the right person. After all, I'm a film and TV composer who rarely ventures beyond the womb-like confines of my studio to do anything, much less record outside.
But I also live and work in Topanga Canyon, home to hundreds of species of interesting natural sounds - from birds to mudslides. Having always had a secret desire to incorporate some of these sounds into my scores, and being stymied by my lack of a decent way to record them, I realized the 702T might provide me with a chance to finally see if this concept that I heard in my head would work in the mix.
(OUT) SOURCING
I was beginning work on the season-ending episode of Cold Case, and searching for a musical sound design element to serve as a mysteriously threatening thread that could tie a number of investigative scenes together. I kept envisioning a kind of throbbing sustained sound with a lot of menacing activity but no distinctive individual events. I suddenly realized what it...