The judging has ended, and we have our finalists. Congratulations to Andre Albino, Chris Fox, Hugo Haas, Saro Sahihi and Peter Veres on their selection to the community vote. Of course, they are still vying for your individual votes to take the prize offered up by Colin Hart and Hart FX. Head over to Dynamicinterference.com to review their entries and cast your vote. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
Izotope RX2 Tutorials for Post Production
Just doing some cross-posting from my website: I decided to put these two tutorials together to share some simple tricks that I use in Izotope RX2. They’re nothing overly complex, but they are kind of unique….and handy to boot. I just thought I’d share them and hope you find them useful. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33841688[/vimeo] The other video can be viewed in this post. … [Read more...]
Cast Away Discussion with Randy Thom: Recording now Available
We had a great time discussing the sound of Cast Away with Randy Thom this morning, and the recording is now available. I have to apologize though, I screwed up on starting the recording...and it's missing the first minute of the discussion. Here's a recap. I asked Randy to describe the goals of the sound design for the film. He started by describing how the director, Robert … [Read more...]
Sound Effects Bible LE and New Holiday Package
Ric Viers has announced some new stuff at The Sound Effects Bible: There's a new version of the hard drive, The Sound Effects Bible LE, available at $299: The Sound Effects Bible Library LE is a collection of 5,000 sound effects recorded by Ric Viers and his team at the Detroit Chop Shop including close to 2,000 new and previously unreleased sound effects. All of the sounds … [Read more...]
HISS and a ROAR Releases SPRINGS
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33684021[/vimeo] SPRINGS is a diverse new library of sound design source material released by HISSandaROAR and recorded by Tim Prebble. Traversing from literal & very powerful trampoline springs & impacts through very strange bowed & manipulated extention springs all the way to abused outboard hardware (AKG BX5, Vermona Retroverb, Doepfer … [Read more...]
Year End Sonic-mash!
I've been developing a generative sound-scape app in Max/MSP - drop in a bunch of files, specify a few values and it will spit out a sound scape which can run for......ever..... Since it is that time of the year when most people are going to be celebrating/holidaying/having-a-good-time in some form or the other, I thought it would a good idea if we could create a sonic-mash of … [Read more...]
Echo | Collective, New Independent Library Focused on Uncommon Sounds
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/31662413[/vimeo] Echo | Collective is a new independent sfx library created by sound designer Rene Coronado and composer Brad Dale, from Dallas Audio Post Group. Their focus is on uncommon sounds. Found instruments and tools that can be manipulated and recontextualized sonically into a film or music project. The project starts operations with five … [Read more...]