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Codemasters Turns To Shure
GAMES PUBLISHER Codemasters turned to a variety of Shure microphones to help capture the sounds of over 50 classic racing vehicles for track racer GRID 2. On GRID 2 every sound heard
after the vehicle selection has been made is derived from recordings made using that actual car, from the slam of the doors, the sound of the ignition, and the roar of the exhaust to the many possible permutations of the alteration in the engine noise. On beginning the recording
sessions for GRID 2, Christopher Jojo, a former Studio Recording Engineer and now the Senior Sound Designer on Codemasters’ Racing Audio team, as well as the company’s Principal Car Recordist, wanted the team to take a new, more detailed approach to audio capture, as he explained: “In the past, the Racing Audio team relied on only three microphone models. I felt that we had no real diversity in terms of choice in directivity, dynamic range, character/frequency response, and sensitivity. In approaching GRID 2, I wanted to home in on specific areas of the car’s engine, transmission, and exhaust by introducing a set of more directional mics, and capturing
>>> EDUCATION VDT Seminar To Take Place
At Belgium’s Galaxy Studios A VDT seminar will take place in the newly inaugurated AuroTorium at Galaxy Studios in Mol, Belgium, on 5-6 October. It will deal with recording and mixing techniques for three-dimensional sound reproduction and discuss how to create the best sounding 3D experience. The focus of the first day is the
introduction of height as the most important factor in the 3D listening experience. Concept, vision, and requirements for the next generation sound formats will be presented and the trends and innovations in sport, music and movie production explained. The second day will concentrate on
the Auro-3D format, conceptual fundamentals, workflow-related questions and solutions, an introduction to 3D recording and
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mixing techniques, up-mixing, down- mixing, and distribution of content. Bert van Daele (CTO, Auro Technologies), Patrick Lemmings (Tonmeister, Galaxy Studios) and Wilfried van Baelen (CEO, Auro Technologies and Galaxy Studios) will conduct the seminar.
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specific attributes, such as the mid- range bite and rasp, the low-end chunk, and the transient detonations of an exhaust note or the resonant growl of an air-box at induction. To this end, I became interested in percussion and guitar mics. Cars are very musical in nature; motor-sports engines and exhausts are rich in harmonics and percussive transients, and the overrun pops and detonations aren’t too far removed from the wallop of a snare hit or the punch of a kick-drum beater. The search ultimately led me to Shure.” After some experimentation, the
best results were obtained from the Beta 181S instrument mic, the Beta 98A tom mic, the SM11 lavalier and the VP89 shotgun mic for more distant capture of cars passing from the side of the track.
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