Space Shuttle Launch Recorded for TV, Video Games, and Radio
Stereo shotgun microphone captures the recent Space Shuttle launch for multimedia company. 
Florida-based multimedia company Road Kill Creative (RKC) captures high-fidelity sound for use in radio, TV, video games, and sound effects libraries. When asked to deliver a hi-fi recording of a space shuttle launch, they were shocked to learn that, although NASA now captures each launch in full HD video, the audio system at the Kennedy Space Center traces back to the (monaural) Apollo days! After six months of negotiations with NASA, RKC engineer Chris Pendl recorded the launch of space shuttles Atlantis and Discovery in stereo using a Sennheiser MKH 418 M/S stereo shotgun microphone.
The MKH 418 endured sound pressures in excess of...read more
Florida-based multimedia company Road Kill Creative (RKC) captures high-fidelity sound for use in radio, TV, video games, and sound effects libraries. When asked to deliver a hi-fi recording of a space shuttle launch, they were shocked to learn that, although NASA now captures each launch in full HD video, the audio system at the Kennedy Space Center traces back to the (monaural) Apollo days! After six months of negotiations with NASA, RKC engineer Chris Pendl recorded the launch of space shuttles Atlantis and Discovery in stereo using a Sennheiser MKH 418 M/S stereo shotgun microphone.
The MKH 418 endured sound pressures in excess of...read more
Posted by Bruce at 18 Jan 2010 
Categories: Technology, Engineering at Work
Tags: space shuttle sound effects audio
Categories: Technology, Engineering at Work
Tags: space shuttle sound effects audio
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