Two new ambience libraries are on the way. HISSandaROAR Beaches: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32247477[/vimeo] and TONSTURM Mountain Air: http://vimeo.com/32139444 Rabbit Ears Audio has an Animal Bells Library on the way, "for sheep, goats, cows, elephants, or sound designers". [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32374039[/vimeo] Chuck Russom FX has released Drones sound library, … [Read more...]
The Sound of “The Muppets”
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32188511[/vimeo] On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage The … [Read more...]
Harry Cohen Special: Sound Design Moments Re-visited
[Written by Harry Cohen] I wanted to write a different kind of article, one that indulges my more geeky-tech side. While the main source for material remains great recordings, there are lots of times when we find solutions to problems in processing; these days that mainly means plug-ins, but that was not always so. Sometimes, looking back, I see creative sound design moments … [Read more...]
SoundWizardry – Sound for Heroes of Newerth
It's great when you come across someone who is open enough to post a step-by-step brain dump of their sound design process, and especially welcomed when the audio comes married to video pulled directly from a game you can all run off and play. After digging through his spell book of secrets, it's clear that Glenn Goa (@SoundWizard) has got the sound design bug and a deep urge … [Read more...]
SFX Lab #3: On Transformation
[SFX Lab, the laboratory of sound effects, a place dedicated to experiment and explore sound libraries. The main goal is to hear what happens when sounds of a specific kind are combined, processed, and transformed in several ways.] Over the years, transformation of sound has become a giant field that barely touches the infinite. Sounds can be manipulated in a lot of … [Read more...]
Twisted Tools Releases Transform, New Library by Jean-Edouard Miclot
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7L5w_Ljgs[/youtube] Twisted Tools has released Transform, a new sound design library created by Jean-Edouard Miclot, french sound designer from Vancouver, Canada.. TRANSFORM is an extensive collection of field recordings, sound effects and designed sounds developed by sound designer Jean-Edouard Miclot (a.k.a. JEDSOUND). Bundled with … [Read more...]
Film Sound Discussion Group: Cast Away (2000)
For the next Film Sound Discussion Group, we'll be taking a look at the film Cast Away (2000)...directed by Robert Zemeckis, with sound design by Randy Thom. This session is going to be different from the previous two, we aren't going to have any special or central presenters. This is going to be a moderated free form discussion to take a look at the use of sound and effects in … [Read more...]