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Studio Acoustics: How to Design and Treat a Recording Room
The best studios find a balance between acoustic perfection and real-world usability. Make sure your space is comfortable, inspiring, and practical for the kind of work you do. With thoughtful planning and smart treatment, you’ll create a recording room that sounds great and feels great to work in.
19-05-2025
What Is the Meaning of Sound Editing?
Sound editing elevates the experience of a film. In sound editing, technicians add, edit, and adjust the sounds and music while removing unwanted noise to improve the film quality. It is a long and laborious task that results in good quality sound for mixing, implementation in a film, or processing. Although laborious, sound editing is essential for creating immersive and emotionally engaging films
13-01-2023
Seamedu – India’s First Ableton Certified Training Center
Yes, you read it right. It is indeed official! Seamedu School of Pro-Expressionism is now the very first Ableton Certified Training Center and this spells fantastic news for all those looking for an avenue that can open the doors to the promising and exciting world of sound engineering.Apart from being proud knowledge partners to Ajeenkya DY Patil University and The North Cap University and our existing AVID accreditations (for Pro Tools) since 2008, the latest Ableton certification is a new feather in our cap.What’s more, our very own Nikhil Bejai is now an Ableton Certified Trainer (ACT). Nikhil has been associated with Seamedu since 2014 and lends a touch of genius to our illustrious faculty. Having Nikhil on board means students from our sound department have full-time access to his vast experience (in electronic music and music technology), unrivalled expertise and deep domain knowledge of the audio engineering industry. He is always available to guide and teach them as they work towards becoming trained sound engineers who are job-ready through a range of theoretical and practical assignments and projects.
27-07-2018
Breaking Barriers: Sound Engineering as a Career After 12th
The career prospects for a Sound Engineer in India are shining bright, thanks to the explosion of new digital technologies and the advent of state-of-the-art studios nationwide. The growth of the M&E (Media and entertainment) industry has further increased the requirement for qualified sound technicians and audio engineers in the film, TV, and digital media worlds.The term ‘Sound Engineering’ sounds pretty cool. It combines music and technology to complete an experience. Sound Engineers are needed everywhere audio is required. They are often overlooked by the general public while they are present, but take the Sound Engineer away and there would be a general uproar.
28-06-2017
7 Clichés About Film Careers You Shouldn’t Believe
Move over Hollywood – Indian cinema is here!Yes, you heard that right. As of 2014, Indian cinema is a bigger enterprise than Hollywood. India is the biggest producer of films with a total of 1,969 movies produced. In 2015, India had a total box office collection of US$1.6 billion. The overall revenue generated by the Indian film industry is projected to reach US$3 billion this year. In 2013, India had 12,000 single screen theaters and 1200 multiplex screens. A whopping 52 billion people watched movies screened at these theaters in 2015.
28-09-2016
Documentary Film Making – Being a Flying Elephant!
A guest lecture by Indian documentary film maker Madhavi Tangella“God is the director when it comes to shooting a documentary film,” said Madhavi when she was questioned by a student.Everyone in the packed classroom was confused and Madhavi promptly pegged in saying that most of the footage acquired by a documentary film maker is decided by God because it’s about capturing a story which is not fully in control of the film maker. This was one of the many pieces of wisdom she shared during a recently concluded guest lecture at Seamedu School of Pro-Expressionism.
02-08-2016
Masters of the Console: How to Become a Top Music Producer
You also need to change your approach in terms of how you listen to a song, and understand the techniques and approaches used in them and learn from them. Limited budgets, lack of access to the top industry talents, and a lack of studio time are all challenges that music producers face, particularly at the beginning of their careers, but facing and surmounting those very challenges will help you become more accomplished in your work. If you get the right education, build experience, and work with energy and passion, then the music industry can be very rewarding.
17-06-2016
Audio Recording Software: Then and Now
Professional audio recording software, better known as a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) has now become the norm in sound studios the world over. Whether used in sound recording, music or post-production, this best recording software is all the rage. It isn’t just a tool used by slick, professional studios either, because everywhere, from that ukulele player on YouTube to the local school’s in-house production, you will probably find a computer running audio production software to help create and edit sound in today’s digital age.Audio recording was first discovered way back in the 1800s, although the digital age began a lot more recently than that. The 1980s were crucial in recording studio software history as this was the period when MIDI or Musical Instrument Digital Interface first came into play. Soon, legendary pieces of code like Steinberg Cubase, Emagic Notator, and Cakewalk first came into being. In ’89, Digidesign created sound tools, which is the spiritual birth of audio software as we know it. The first iteration of Pro software Tools came to being in 1992, and Logic Audio and Cubase created, updated software to match its pioneering multi-track layout and notation capabilities.
28-05-2016
A Comprehensive Guide to Diverse Rewarding Careers in Filmmaking
The Indian film industry is usually synonymous with Bollywood, but this is not truly the case. While Bollywood does have a huge presence and fan following both in India and abroad, it is not the be-all and end-all of Indian cinema. There is a whole other tier to it – regional cinema.India is a country with a kaleidoscope of diverse cultures and indigenous languages, which means films, are made to cater to all this diversity as well. While they may not have as much widespread blockbuster success like their Bollywood counterparts they are still relevant in this context.That is not all, now with in the age of YouTube and Vimeo, cellphones with 4K recording capabilities and the widespread tendrils of the internet Indian cinema has a new scion – web cinema. People making movies targeted at these internet portals and all the potential viewership they serve up on a platter.
05-05-2016
