Tonebenders eps 217 – Recording Animals with Mattia Cellotto & Dmitry Chernov

I had an honour to be interviewed together with Mattia Cellotto by Tonebenders Podcast for their episode #217 – Recording Animals with Mattia Cellotto & Dmitry Chernov.
Recording Guinea Pigs

One day in spring of 2021 I received a DM from a famous supervising sound editor and sound designer Jason “Jay” Jennings: “Hey Dmitry, do you have recordings of Guinea pigs or can you record them? We need single ones, pairs, groups of 10 and more.” The time frame was about a month.
Editing Audio at a Quarter Speed

While mastering sound effects with ultrasonic content and working a lot with recordings, slowed down to 50% or even 25% speed, I noticed that removing short extraneous noises in RX Spectral Editor may be much easier when the recording is slowed down.
Wolves. Chapter 4. Techniques and approaches.

My experience and thoughts on equipment, recording techniques and approach to animals during this project
Wolves. Chapter 3. The Clacking Teeth.

The scariest moment of my Wolves expedition.
Wolves. Chapter 2. Meeting the pack.

Another outstanding person and a speaker at the lectures about wolves was Anastasia Gaiduk. A fragile looking young woman of wonderful inner strength and devotion, veterinarian and the founder of the single shelter for wolves in Russia @chertogvolka. She, her husband Yaroslav and their friend Svetlana try to save each wolf that gets on their […]
Hornet – an uninvited guest.

An impromptu recording of a scary guest.
Wolves. How it started.

How did it happen that I got the opportunity to observe and record the life of a pack of wolves for a whole week? This story began with a lucky encounter that opened a whole new dimension for me.