Tim Prebble has announced the first remix competition of HISS and a ROAR: After playing with the sounds in the Tortured Piano library over the last few weeks, I’ve become fascinated as to the ways these sounds can be processed, altered & recontextualised… But I am even more so interested in what other people might do with the sounds…. So I’ve just released the FREE version … [Read more...]
Sound Design Challenge…Changes Coming
As I mentioned in the winner announcement for June's Challenge, I've got some info to share regarding our little competitions. First off, let me get the least interesting bit of news out of the way. In the course of running these for nearly a year now, it's become apparent to me that I can't keep up the once a month schedule (at least, not the way I'd like to). This thing on … [Read more...]
Making of “Mangled Metal”, The New SFX Library of The Recordist
The Recordist has released Mangled Metal, a collection of 715 sound effects, including metal rips, tears, dents, scrapes, folds, slides, rubs, impacts, crashes, drops and more. Being a pack-rat runs in the family so I instinctively saved all kinds of metal like my old roof, appliances, stoves, containers, steel bars, pipes, barrels, etc. Recorded with a variety of microphones … [Read more...]
Axel Rohrbach Special: Exclusive Interview
To get things started on this month's featured sound designer, here's an interview of Axel Rohrbach: Designing Sound: While we all know about BOOM Library, tell us about yourself. What got you interested in sound? Axel Rohrbach: I can not remember any day in my life without being involved in any way in audio. The reason is simple: my parents own a music-school. I started with … [Read more...]
Sounddogs.com Launches New Site
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/26036513[/vimeo] The new site of Sounddogs.com is now live: soundeffects.sounddogs.com features a large waveform viewer and audio player that enhances the previewing of sounds before purchase. Individual channels may be selected, this is especially good for polyphonic sound recordings of guns or on-board cars, tanks and airplanes. In layman’s terms … [Read more...]
The Uptown Trolley Sound Library
I had been considering something like this, but Rene Coronado beat me to the punch! He's opened up a Kickstarter page to fund the chartering of an antique trolley...of course, he's going to plant it with mics in places the transit authority don't even know exist. The project page was launched today, and has already reached it's goal. That doesn't mean you can't go add to the … [Read more...]
July’s Featured Sound Designer: Axel Rohrbach
Axel Rohrbach is the lead sound designer of Dynamedion, an audio production studio based in Germany and focused on video games content. He's also co-founder and creative director of BOOM Library. This month we have the honor of feature him as our special guest, so let's get started! Bio Born 1981 in Frechen near Cologne, Germany. Parents got a music school, started with … [Read more...]