Death Is Not The End Two years ago I wrote a long post about BBC Records’ sound effects albums, and no.13 in particular. I wanted to put Death & Horror Sound Effects in context as well as telling as much of its story as I could. Now, here’s another long post about Death and Horror. …
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SFX Discography 11 – Catatlogue Number Extraction pt. 2 – Simple Scanning
After a brief introduction to Regular Expressions last time it’s time to actually scan the 1985 BBC Sound Effects Catalogue and turn it into a text file. Happily, I had already photographed this whole thing in early 2022. That taught me that the OCR task was not at all easy and I put it to …
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SFX Discography Project 10 – Catatlogue No. Extraction pt. 1
What does this mean to you? The EC and NH are prefixes for Sound Effects Centre catalogue numbers, so that’s a clue. The capital letters are a complete alphabet minus the letters I and O, which is another. Expressed Purpose This is a regular expression. You don’t come across them in everyday programmes like MS …
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SFX Discography Project 9 – Ford Cortina 1600
Here’s a case study on a BBC Sound Effects record that’s on Discogs with an interesting* note. This is EC 19F, Motor Car: Ford Cortina 1600. https://www.discogs.com/release/7598199-No-Artist-Motor-Car-Ford-Cortina-1600 My interest is aroused by this note about a note. “Notes on paper sleeve from pressing plant which state “PU58, JOB 27422, 150 pressings, 4-3-75” Field recordings made …
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SFX Discography Project 8 – Matrix Revelations
Late on in the collating (see previous post) I noticed these two copies of EC 91C – English Church Bells – had different matrix numbers. And I had to sit down to absorb this information. I was rocked back on my heels by this because it means an assumption I had about dating these records …
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