SOUNDFIELD ST350 RECORDS LIFE ON EARTH: Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson has purchased a SoundField ST350 Portable Mic System for location recording. His first project with the ST350 is a trial not by fire, but by ice: he's spending early 2010 in Antarctica recording David Attenborough's next BBC series, The Frozen Planet. Read more...
CESAR-NOMINATED FILM SOUND ENGINEER BUYS ST350: Belgian Film Sound Engineer Philippe Vandendriessche has invested in a SoundField ST350 portable microphone for use on location. A well-known figure in the Francophone film industry for over 25 years, Vandendriessche was nominated in 2008 for a Cesar film award (the French equivalent of the Oscars) for Best Sound in French film Seraphine, on which he acted as Chief Sound Engineer. Read more...
OUTSIDE BROADCAST GOES HD IN BRAZIL WITH SOUNDFIELD: Globo TV, the longest-established TV network in Brazil, has become the first broadcaster in South America to invest in SoundField's digital surround microphone systems for high-definition broadcasting. The SoundField DSF-2/DSF-3 system has been installed in Globo's new high-definition outside broadcast unit (the largest HD OB vehicle in the Southern Hemisphere, according to Globo), which entered service in mid-January 2010. Read more...
GERMAN SPORT GETS 5.1 MAKEOVER WITH SOUNDFIELD'S UPM-1: WDR needed to ensure that the whole of Sportschau could be broadcast with a 5.1 surround soundtrack. After a intense period of testing various ways of upmixing stereo to surround, WDR turned to SoundField and acquired one of its UPM-1 Stereo-to-5.1 processors to handle the job. Read more...
SOUNDFIELD SPS200 GOES NATIVE IN SURROUND THANKS TO SEA: A SoundField SPS200 Software Controlled Microphone, supplied by German SoundField distributor SEA, has been used to capture audio for a unique sound installation at a Zurich cultural museum. NONAM, Switzerland's North American Native Museum. The new audio installation evokes the culture of the north-west coast of the continent, playing quadrophonic sounds and audio textures captured on the West Coast of British Columbia on a permanent loop inside an acoustically treated chamber. Read more...
SOUNDFIELD'S SPS200: RHAPSODY IN DEEP BLUE SOUND: SoundField has supplied further copies of the SPS200 Surround Zone plug-in to Plymouth audio and music technology college Deep Blue Sound (DBS), where their SPS200 Software Controlled Microphone has been proving popular with students since last autumn. Read more...
UPM-1 STEREO TO 5.1 CONVERTER: "This product takes an innovative approach to the concept of upmixing a stereo soundtrack to 5.1, using some seriously powerful and very clever DSP jiggery-pokery."
SPS200 SOFTWARE CONTROLLED MICROPHONE REVIEW: "The SPS200 surround microphone is an example of state-of-the-art recording technology, and is very good value. I
highly recommend it for pros who want to capture top-quality sound in the field."
LIVE HD DRAMA ON SKY WITH UPM-1: UK-based satellite broadcaster Sky made broadcasting history over the summer, transmitting completely live for the first time ever a series of weekly television plays in high definition, with a 5.1 surround soundtrack. Helping to create the 5.1 ambience during transmission of the Sky Arts channel series from Sky Studio 6 in Isleworth, London, was one of the broadcaster's eight recently acquired SoundField UPM-1 stereo-to-5.1 upmix processors. Specifically, the UPM-1 was used to process stereo spot effects, atmospheres, and pre-recorded music from the Sky audio libraries so that this content was also transmitted in full 5.1. Read more...
SOUNDFIELD IS THE ELEMENTARY CHOICE FOR HOLMES: The ST350 Portable Microphone System has recently been used on Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes film starring Robert Downey Jnr. Exterior filming began in early 2009 with 2nd Unit sound recordings being overseen by freelance Sound Mixer John Casali. Read more...
SURROUND TO GO - SOUNDFIELD'S WINDPROOF SPS200 ZEPHYX KIT: The SPS200 Zephyx Kit includes a specially manufactured version of SoundField's existing SPS200 microphone with a shorter body, known as the SPS200-SB (Short Body), which comes as standard fitted into the supplied Zephyx suspension mount. Read more...
MORE HD SURROUND FROM SKY WITH SOUNDFIELD'S UPM-1: European satellite broadcaster BSkyB, better known as Sky, has purchased eight of SoundField's stereo-to-5.1 upmix processors for live use in their studios and outside broadcast facilities. Read more...
ST350 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF OZ: The ST350 was used extensively to capture 5.1 location ambience during production of Baz Luhrmann's recent cinematic epic 'Australia', starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, and featured in one of Apple's 'Set To Screen' series of short video clips about film production. Read more...
SMP200 GAIN MATCHED MIC-PREAMP: The SMP200 is a four-channel mic preamp designed to complement SoundField's SPS200 'Software
Controlled' Microphone. Read more... (PDF - 1 170 KB)
LIVE HD DRAMA ON SKY WITH UPM-1:
