By Mark Camperell - Founder / Creative Director at Empty Sea Audio Services THE MISSION DR0NE is a high-concept, sci-fi web series that is exclusive to YOMYOMFnetwork, a new professional YouTube channel. The series is executive produced by Justin Lin (Fast and Furious, Fast Five) and directed by Robert Glickert. DR0NE stars Lance Reddick (The Wire, Lost and Fringe) and … [Read more...]
Making of Videos for The Zombie Apocalypse Library
If you've been busy with work...or just had your head under a rock...you may not have noticed that there's a new library coming out from BlastwaveFX; The Zombie Apocalypse Library. There's a series of four "Making of" videos that are going to be released leading up to the library's launch on Halloween. In the meantime, here's a little teaser video for … [Read more...]
Mid-Side Explanations (Part 1)
Last week we featured a post by Rene Cornado about Quad Miking Dual MS. Well Mychal Herron has a great post on his blog explaining Mid-Side recording: Well what is Mid-Side? Surprisingly, the M-S technique is one of the oldest stereo recording methods. The theoretical basis for it appears in Alan Blumlein’s seminal 1934 patent, although it wasn’t until the stereo experiments … [Read more...]
CINESONIKA 3: Call for Submissions
The Third International Film and Video Festival of Sound Design is open to submissions: CINESONIKA 3: The Third International Film and Video Festival of Sound Design - Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, February 2013. Call for submissions Deadline: Nov. 15th 2012 €15 entry fee The third annual Cinesonika festival will showcase international works of film and video with … [Read more...]
TeeVegas: A Sound Designer’s Toolbox for Sony Vegas
Johan Althoff, former Lead Sound Designer at Starbreeze Studios, has released a suite of scripts for Sony Vegas, specifically tailored for use in music production and sound design. TeeVegas includes a flexible batch renderer, utilities for creating and arranging regions and markers, as well as helpers for speeding up the workflow of sound designers. From Johan … [Read more...]
Sound Forge Pro Mac Now Avaliable
Sony put out this press release this morning: SOUND FORGE™ PRO MAC NOW AVAILABLEMiddleton, Wis. - Oct 3, 2012 - Sony Creative Software, a leading global provider of professional editing and authoring solutions, today released Sound Forge Pro Mac 1.0software, the newest addition to its line of award-winning video and audio production software products. This audio … [Read more...]
Thinking Before Design
With news of a new plugin or new software feature every other week, it is easy to get lost in a myriad of technological ‘solutions’. It is easy to get lost in the "What plugins can I use?" thought. It is easy to forget that sound design is more about communication. It might be interesting and rewarding to take a step back from the computer to … [Read more...]