Review of Zynaptiq’s Reverb Reduction Processor – Unveil

Thursday, March 14, 2013
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Reverb reduction is kind of like the Holy Grail of audio processing. Many people, myself included, have had to rely exclusively on multiband expansion to do things like…

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Thanks to our December Contributors

Monday, December 31, 2012

It’s been a great month here on Designing Sound! We took a gamble in November with the new monthly features format, and it’s been paying off in spectacular fashion….

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Analog Worldization

Monday, December 31, 2012

Guest contribution by Cormac Donnelly I am, at heart, a techno-nostalgiast and I’ve worked with tape machines of one kind or other for most of my career. When I…

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Creating the Spaces of Ambience

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Guest contribution by Michael Theiler (Kpow Audio) Situating an Ambience When creating ambiences for games (this applies equally to film), I am striving to make them blend into the…

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Recording Impulse Responses

Saturday, December 29, 2012

With growing computing power over the last decade, convolution plugins have become commonplace. Some of the most common ones include Audio Ease Altiverb, Logic’s Space Designer, Avid TL…

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New Sound Lab’s Spring Reverb

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Tor Johnson over at New Sound Lab has recently released “NSL009 Spring Reverb.” From Tor’s description: “This library features recordings created using a “Knas Ekdahl Moisturizer“, a boutique…

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Panning Reverb Returns

Monday, December 24, 2012

Guest contribution by By Douglas Murray OK, here is the ugly truth for film post, or really any surround sound work… Most reverb plug-ins do not sound natural…

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Reverb: The Science And The State-of-the-Art

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Guest Contribution by Anish Chandak In the previous article by Ian Palmer on this month’s theme of Reverb, you have already seen various creative uses of Reverb. Here…

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Rewind…Audio Implementation Greats #3: Crackdown – Realtime Worlds

Thursday, December 13, 2012

In the run-up to this month’s reverb theme, former contributor Damian Kastbauer suggested we re-run this article he put together discussing the game Crackdown for XBOX. The article…

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EMT 140 Plate Reverb

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Guest Contribution by  Elizabeth McClanahan, Assistant Mixer at Heard City  EMT 140 Plate Reverb The majority of today’s common reverb plugins contain plate reverb settings, the designs of which…

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