by Audio Academy | Jun 2, 2018 | Audio Legends, Audio Trends & Gear
Throughout history, music has been a force that has given rise to many cultural movements, spanning fashion, art and design to film and media. The punk counterculture of the mid-1970s and 1980s emerged initially out of dingy London basements and matured to a movement...
by Audio Academy | May 26, 2018 | Audio Legends
Pioneer, Sound Designer, Film Editor Multiple Academy award winner, Walter Murch is known as the Godfather of sound design. Also known for his expertise in film editing, he has won Academy awards in both categories multiple times. Murch is credited with coining the...
by Audio Academy | May 21, 2018 | Audio Trends & Gear
Movies transport us to worlds that we are not physically in, thanks largely to the Foley artists, who create an auditory experience that is brilliant. Besides the dialogue and music, everything that the audience hears during the movie are Foley and sound effects...
by Audio Academy | May 3, 2018 | Academy Success Stories
“You don’t get paid very well in this industry. You’ve got to lift and move s*** all day. And sometimes all night. It’s tough, back-breaking work, and there’s no glamour in it”. Not the words you want to hear during a job interview. And definitely not from the...
by Audio Academy | Apr 16, 2018 | Audio Trends & Gear
Movies are magical in the way they give us such a multi-sensory experience and one of the most crucial aspects in movies that can make or break our experience is sound. Almost every sound that the audience hears at the movies that isn’t dialogue or music is a...
by Audio Academy | Mar 26, 2018 | Audio Trends & Gear
Looking back in time there have been many musical genres that arose out of counter culture or social justice movements. The music of a particular era often is a peek into the history and culture of that specific period. As a large group of people became obsessed with...
by Audio Academy | Mar 12, 2018 | Audio Trends & Gear
In discussions among most sound enthusiasts on the various ways to improve the quality of audio production and audio mixes, the focus tends to be on the gear and process. However, it is just as important if not more to consider the conditions under which sound is...
by Audio Academy | Mar 2, 2018 | Audio Trends & Gear
Audio Academy’s sound engineering courses train students in every aspect of sound recording and live sound. For an average person on the street, the microphone is a device that picks up sound. However, for trainees of Audio Academy, the microphone is a transducer- a...
by Audio Academy | Feb 24, 2018 | Audio Trends & Gear
When it comes to music and its relationship to language learning, it is logical that paying close attention to pitch and rhythm gives musicians an advantage when it comes to language learning. Music and language have many similarities. Both are based on acoustic...
by Audio Academy | Feb 14, 2018 | Audio Trends & Gear
It has been many years since 2500-foot reels of magnetic tape began to be put into storage in favour of computer hard drives capable of recording music faster and cheaper than ever before. But decades after the digital revolution, the debates around whether analogue...
