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Unofficial PetaPixel Bot<p>Rode’s Parent Company Acquires Wireless Audio Brand Lectrosonics <a href="https://petapixel.com/2025/05/08/rodes-parent-company-acquires-wireless-audio-brand-lectrosonics/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petapixel.com/2025/05/08/rodes</span><span class="invisible">-parent-company-acquires-wireless-audio-brand-lectrosonics/</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/thefreedmangroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thefreedmangroup</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/wirelessaudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wirelessaudio</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/lectrosonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lectrosonics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/acquisition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acquisition</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/Industry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Industry</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/proaudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proaudio</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/merger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>merger</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>audio</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/rode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rode</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>But it also occurs to me that this is a use case where I could see value in machine learning tools</p><p>to recreate the cadence and art of the delivery cleanly from existing sources would make these much more accessible to modern audiences.</p><p>Reading King is not the same as hearing him speak. And I'm not normally one to listen to speeches.</p><p>(reposted to fix borked threading)</p><p>2/2 <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>I have a 16-disc (!) set of sermons and speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that recently I got from a library fundraising sale for like a dollar.</p><p>The audio quality in some of the early stuff especially is very poor, owing in part to the circumstances of recording and in part to the limitations of available technology.</p><p>A lot could be done with modern software to clean this up, so I'm going to give it a swing as an exercise.</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>After spending part of the last week trying to figure out a good workflow for noise reduction in problematic spoken word audio</p><p>(and documenting it here <a href="https://venya.soundslike.pro/blog/2025/05/meeting-acx-audible-standards-with-adobe-audition-and-reaper/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">venya.soundslike.pro/blog/2025</span><span class="invisible">/05/meeting-acx-audible-standards-with-adobe-audition-and-reaper/</span></a>)</p><p>I am now playing on hard mode by trying to fix up audio from an outdoor wedding recorded on a not-close Zoom H4N under a local airport flight path</p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/NoiseReduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoiseReduction</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ReaperDAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaperDAW</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>Some <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/LessonsLearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LessonsLearned</span></a> on using <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/AdobeAudition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdobeAudition</span></a> to remove background noise and make <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/AudioBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AudioBook</span></a> recordings comply with ACX standards for <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Audible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Audible</span></a></p><p>(and because that's how I roll, how to do it in <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ReaperDAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaperDAW</span></a>, too)</p><p><a href="https://venya.soundslike.pro/blog/2025/05/meeting-acx-audible-standards-with-adobe-audition-and-reaper/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">venya.soundslike.pro/blog/2025</span><span class="invisible">/05/meeting-acx-audible-standards-with-adobe-audition-and-reaper/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>When I switch to the melodic range spectrogram layer, you can see WHERE the ref mix is louder. The low end is much more powerful throughout.</p><p>But there are also some short higher pitches (xylophone, I think?) arpeggiating throughout that are much louder. It's PRETTIER, but I didn't actually like how bright they were in the ref mix.</p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/SonicVisualiser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SonicVisualiser</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>Reference mix is on top; our mix is on bottom. These are normalized to -1 dB peak, because I am specifically evaluating the mix. (If I just wanted to compare how they sounded and which I preferred, then it would make sense to normalize to perceived loudness, the default for <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ffmpeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ffmpeg</span></a>-normalize.)</p><p>Our mix has more dynamic range, prob too much. That fits _my_ tastes, but it's not what the market prefers. You can see some limiting in the ref mix, but not excessive.</p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/SonicVisualiser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SonicVisualiser</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>I need to compare a reference mix to the one that my team did in the AES student mixing competition last month. <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/SonicVisualiser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SonicVisualiser</span></a> is a great tool for this, but first I need to normalize the audio tracks so they are at roughly the same perceived loudness. ffmpeg-normalize is a quick CLI tool for this purpose.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/slhck/ffmpeg-normalize/wiki/examples" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/slhck/ffmpeg-normal</span><span class="invisible">ize/wiki/examples</span></a></p><p>(I had to install several things to get to the point I could use this, but "you need this" first messages were helpful and clear. Yay, <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a>.) <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/MusicDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MusicDev</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>I have been asked last minute to do sound for a funeral. </p><p>I did not get to test anything before it started so I'm leaning pretty heavily on the default configuration. </p><p>I have so many questions about this EQ curve but I'm not about to mess with it during a eulogy. </p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ImprovAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImprovAudio</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/LiveSound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiveSound</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>Freelance is (in this case) another word for "unemployed"</p><p>but I'm staying busy</p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Nashville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nashville</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a></p><p><a href="https://venya.soundslike.pro/blog/2025/05/freelance/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">venya.soundslike.pro/blog/2025</span><span class="invisible">/05/freelance/</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>One of the super insightful people we heard on Friday afternoon at an AES event.</p><p><a href="https://www.piperpayne.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">piperpayne.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Nashville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nashville</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/WomenInMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInMusic</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPqKe3B5QOg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=lPqKe3B5QO</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>Scheduled an interview on Thursday for a studio internship. <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Nashville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nashville</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>From <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/SoundOnSound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoundOnSound</span></a> in 2021</p><p><a href="https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/12-things-people-worry-about-too-much-when-mixing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">soundonsound.com/sound-advice/</span><span class="invisible">12-things-people-worry-about-too-much-when-mixing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/MusicProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MusicProduction</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/MusicDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MusicDev</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Mixing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mixing</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>My new sticker order arrived. I am trying out TheStickyBrand.com, which had a promo to get 100 of these (about 3"x2") vinyl holographic stickers for $25.</p><p>I like the way they turned out. There are some other designs I'd like to have lots of. I will order more. These are destined to be given to my audio nerd friends (and former instructors, one of whom inspired the design).</p><p>Which is available here, btw: <a href="https://archive.org/details/bs-meter/BS%20meter.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/bs-meter/B</span><span class="invisible">S%20meter.png</span></a></p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Inkscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inkscape</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Stickers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stickers</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>Dad will be visiting town for a few days next week. His idea of cool is similar to mine; we won't be hitting the bars on Broadway, but I am trying to line up some studio tours and/or coffee with some audio people. Ideas and contacts gratefully welcomed.</p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Nashville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nashville</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>Going to spend the day in a team mixing competition with two of my fellow recent Blackbird Academy grads up against teams from 4 or 5 of the local university and tech school audio programs. Should be fun. I am getting two t-shirts out of this.</p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/AES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AES</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Nashville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nashville</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a></p>
Unofficial PetaPixel Bot<p>Sennheiser’s New Climate-Proof Shotgun Mic Is Built for Pros <a href="https://petapixel.com/2025/04/07/sennheisers-new-climate-proof-shotgun-mic-is-built-for-pros/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petapixel.com/2025/04/07/sennh</span><span class="invisible">eisers-new-climate-proof-shotgun-mic-is-built-for-pros/</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/microphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microphone</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/sennheiser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sennheiser</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/shotgunmic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shotgunmic</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/Equipment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Equipment</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/proaudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proaudio</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/nab2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nab2025</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>audio</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/mic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mic</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/nab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nab</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>Periodic update:<br>- graduated from my studio engineering program<br>- minor medical things<br>- more background on the song we released CC-BY-SA this week</p><p><a href="https://venya.soundslike.pro/blog/2025/03/six-months/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">venya.soundslike.pro/blog/2025</span><span class="invisible">/03/six-months/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hugo</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/MusicDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MusicDev</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Nashville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nashville</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCommons</span></a></p>
Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦<p>With each diploma from the Blackbird Academy Professional School of Audio comes a Shure SM57.</p><p>There's a lesson there somewhere. </p><p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/MusicDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MusicDev</span></a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Nashville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nashville</span></a></p>
Dendrobatus Azureus<p>When bluetoothd starts to barf with cryptic messages in /var/log/syslog (which I constantly monitor on this machine) after I diagnosed horrificly low quality audio (in the flat side of the audio spectrum (which is balanced audio)) Is when I would rather have the message to be in the gracefull Norsk language with a **specific cause** for the corruption than the generic message the daemon spouted.</p><p>The fix was simple, I routed the audio as usual through an unbalanced tip/sleave cable eliminiting the BT tranceiver interface, which does introduce noise</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Balanced" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Balanced</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ProAudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProAudio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/HomeStudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeStudio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BlueTooth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlueTooth</span></a></p>