review : Designing Sound

Review: iZotope Insight

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Thoughts by Ian Palmer: Anyone who knows me will know that 4 years on I am still madly in love with iZotope’s RX noise reduction package. So it…

Review of Zynaptiq’s Reverb Reduction Processor – Unveil

Thursday, March 14, 2013

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…

Review – The Hybrid Library

Thursday, February 21, 2013

There is no shortage of general sound effects libraries on the market, and they come in a number of different sizes. Pro Sound Effects is master licensor and…

Experiments with Digital Microphones

Friday, February 15, 2013

While AES42 compliant digital microphones are relatively new to the audio world, they’re not “brand-spanking” new. There have been several on the market for a few years now,…

Review – Blue Cat Audio “Multi Pack”

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

While this month has thus far been dedicated to plug-ins and their direct application to sound design, it’s important to remember that there are also tools that help…

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…

Triumph – Review (and giveaway!)

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

[The kind folks at Audiofile Engineering have put together a giveaway of apps - including Triumph. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find out how you...

Sonic Salute’s Analog Cameras

Friday, November 16, 2012

Mikkel Nielsen, founder of Sonic Salute, recently released a new library called “Analog Cameras.” In his own words: What started out as a somewhat smaller camera sound effects…

Sound Forge Pro MAC Review

Monday, November 5, 2012

A long time standard of most Windows-using audio professionals, Sound Forge Pro has finally come to Apple OS X. While there have been functional audio editors on OS…