Ric Viers Special: With The Lights Out, It’s Less Dangerous…

Thursday, March 10, 2011

[Written by Ric Viers for Designing Sound] Recording sound effects on a stage is much like eating at a fine restaurant. You know the fancy kind with fresh…

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Audio Media: Dialogue Special, Production Sound of “127 Hours”

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The March issue of Audio Media magazine is available now and, along other interesting stuff, it features an article on voice/dialog recording, ADR, voice acting, etc; and also…

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An Interview with Craig Berkey

Monday, February 28, 2011

Vancouver Sun recentlty published an article featuring Craig Berkey, sound designer and re-recording mixer on “True Grit”. When Craig Berkey quit his job at a BC Tel subsidiary…

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The New York Times: The Sound of ‘Inception’

Friday, February 18, 2011

The New York Times has published an interview with Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer Richard King and Re-Recording Mixer Gary Ryzzo and Sound Mixer Ed Novick, talking about their…

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Inside the Waves Sound Design Suite [Pt 2] – Renaissance and V-Series

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Continuing with this series of articles dedicated to explore the Waves Sound Design Suite, now let’s move to a very special plugins included in the suite. I’m talking…

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Ambivalence

Friday, February 4, 2011

Nathan Moody has published a brilliant post on his blog Noise Jockey dedicated to explore several things about ambivalence and its relationship to our creative decisions in sound….

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Tips on Audio Creation for iPhone

Thursday, February 3, 2011

More cool tips on working with audio development for the iPhone, this time from Nathan Madsen at iDevGames. Introduction Because creating audio content specially for the iPhone isn’t…

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Tim Walston Special: The Accidental Recordist

Friday, January 28, 2011

[Written by Tim Walston for Designing Sound] Disclaimer: I am writing these articles as an independent sound designer. Any views or opinions expressed here are simply my own,…

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Re-recording Mixers vs Sound Designers

Monday, January 24, 2011

Tim Prebble has published a must-read article about the relationship between sound designers and re-recording mixers, the importance of their roles, the creative challenges of each, etc. Very interesting…

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VARIETY: Music shapes sound effects

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Variety has published a very cool article on how music shapes sound effects. There’s a long history in film of finished musical scores being rushed to the final mixing…

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