[Article written by Frank Bry about his new library Ultimate Destruction, a collection of+600 destruction sounds recorded over a five year period at 24-Bit 96kHz in a multitude of dirty, dusty, smelly, noisy, dangerous and physically grueling locations. Available at The Recordist] [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/43366731" iframe="true" /] The Idea Where do I … [Read more...]
Interview with Nick Wiswell, Audio director of Turn 10 Part 2
David Nichols, of the Track Time Audio blog, has posted a second part of his interview with Nick Wiswell, the Audio Director at Turn 10 and audio overseer of the Forza Motorsport games. In this part, Nick discusses how his team used FMOD to implement the audio, how they sourced rarer vehicles, the complexity of Racing audio, and working with Lance Hayes on the UI sounds and … [Read more...]
iZotope Iris
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzUxOojmoiY[/youtube] If you already like the spectral tools on iZotope RX, you'll love this new tool, called Iris. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMWUFLN7_SU[/youtube] More info: iZotope | Pro Tools Expert … [Read more...]
Spanner
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yEDKE6hV7E[/youtube] We don't use to talk so much about plugin news, but this fantastic. spanner is a powerful surround channel manager, panner, remapper and folddown plugin for AVID Pro Tools. it is the result of years of personal frustration with the Pro Tools panner and bussing setup and solves many of the common complaints about … [Read more...]
John Kassab on “Childhood of a Circle”
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/38799240[/vimeo] Motionographer has published an interview with sound designer John Kassab, talking about his work on the short film "Childhood of a Circle" As I was being transported back to my youth watching Childhood of a Circle, I noticed a thread lining several recent posts here… Melbourne-based audio designer & deep sea diver John Kassab has … [Read more...]
Clocks, New Library by TONSTURM
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/40173441[/vimeo] The guys at Tonsturm have released their sixth library, called Clocks. With this sound pack you get a huge variety of ticking and chiming clock sound effects, recorded from various type of clocks: Old tower clockworks, wall clocks, cuckoo clocks, antique grandfather clocks and many more.... [soundcloud … [Read more...]
Creating the sound for LA Noire
Kpow, the folks behind the audio design of 2011 hit LA Noire, have published an insightful analysis of the audio systems created in FMOD Designer and used in the game, illustrated by picture maps. The post also discusses how the team pursued the 1940's aesthetic, and the care and attention used to construct the in-game reverb definitions. The whole article can be viewed here … [Read more...]