Ric Viers, author "The Sound Effects Bible: How to Create and Record Hollywood Style Sound Effects" and David Sonnenschein, author "Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema" have joined forces and are announcing "Secrets for Great Film Sound, a new webinar series that will start in the next week, with an introductory webinar: Get essential … [Read more...]
Having Fun with Small Motors SFX Library from Rabbit Ears Audio [Review & Demo]
Michael Raphael recently released Small motors on Rabbit Ears Audio. This package is terrific sfx collection full all kind of little motorized devices, including appliances, broken devices, and also a really cool robot: the Maker Bot 3D Printer. This library maintains the same great sounding stuff from the first Rockets library. It's recorded at 96kHz/24-Bit and comes tagged … [Read more...]
The Industrial Madness of Hart FX [Review & Demo]
Hart FX is the new company that enters this great world of sound effects independence. Is run by Colin Hart, a very good friend of mine, and also co-editor on Sonic Terrain. This library is huge. Colin is literally giving this thing as a gift. I can tell you that $99 is a really low price for this amazing collection. It was recorded at 192kHz/24-Bit, with the sound designer in … [Read more...]
Aaron Marks Special: Reader Questions
This month has been awesome! Aaron Marks made a terrific special, which sadly ends today. Thanks to all the readers who sent his questions. Below are the answers to them. Designing Sound Reader: How often do you use your musical background in sound designing a film or video game? Do you pitch certain hard FX or drones to musical notes to strike emotional chords in … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial: Using Battery for Sound Design
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/16202070[/vimeo] Enrik Anton sent me a very cool video tutorial, where he shows how to use Native Instruments Battery for sound design. He show several things about building a palette of sounds in the sampler, grouping sounds, tweaking them, assigning different trigger options, layering, etc. He also put some kind words there: This is a demonstration of … [Read more...]
The Recordist Releases Pigs HD Sound Effects Library (Special Offer)
Frank Bry (The Recordist) has released SoundBox HD - Pigs at only $10 until November 15th. I know November is usually the time of year that Turkey is on everyone’s mind but a fox came in and killed all the wild turkeys on my ranch earlier this year so I had to settle for recording some pigs. Oh well. Pigs. Until 11-15-10 get this collection of pigs sound effects for … [Read more...]
Sound Ideas Announces General HD Sound Effects Library
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2eMfeEae7A[/youtube] Sound Ideas is announcing the new General HD Sound Effects Library, a new collection of over 20,000 sound effects recorded at 24-Bit/96kHz. Will be available soon at $3,995 (2,995 at pre-release) Available on Hard Drive - we started from scratch with state-of-the-art recording equipment and the best in microphones … [Read more...]