"Mixing is a performance. You sit down at the console. You're alert, and you're playing parts in the picture: You're a robot, you're a door, you're a laser gun. And you get into it. You should be breathing hard and sweating when it's over with." -Ben Burtt … [Read more...]
Inside the Waves Sound Design Suite [Pt 2] – Renaissance and V-Series
Continuing with this series of articles dedicated to explore the Waves Sound Design Suite, now let's move to a very special plugins included in the suite. I'm talking about the amazing Renaissance and the (recently added) V-Series. The Sound Design Suite doesn't include the whole Renaissance Maxx Suite, but it includes enough tools for sound design purposes. All those … [Read more...]
Sound One Studios Tour
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/19688642[/vimeo] SoundWorks Collection has published a new video profile, featuring the creative talent of Sound One Studios talking about the story of the facilities and also about their workflow, collaboration and approach. The history and creative talent that fill the halls of Sound One is a who’s who of the New York film and audio community. Many … [Read more...]
“Secrets for Great Film Sound” Webinar Report #3 – Sound Design
[During this month, I'll be doing weekly reports about “Secret for Great Film Sound“, a new webinar series hosted by David Sonnenschein and Ric Viers.] Last week's webinar was very interesting. David talked about his methodology for enhancing story and emotion by using sound, and how to create a soundscape with good relationship with the dramatic content of the project. That … [Read more...]
Designing Sound Mailing List
By popular demand and also in an effort to give you more options for reading Designing sound, I've created a mailing list which can be used for several things, including daily, weekly or monthly subscription for the articles published on the site and also subscription for special/exclusive announcements from Designing Sound. I've done several tests to the list and everything … [Read more...]
Your Questions to Peter Albrechtsen
Now, you have the opportunity to do your own questions our special guest Peter Albrechtsen. Please read the exclusive interview first. Maybe you can find your answer there. … [Read more...]
SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of “True Grit”
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/19565316[/vimeo] SoundWorks Collection has published a fantastic video, featuring a discussion with Sound Re-recording Mixer and Supervising Sound Editor Skip Lievsay, Sound Re-recording Mixer Greg Orloff and Dialogue/ADR Editor Byron Wilson, creators of the great sound of "True Grit". “True Grit” is not your typical western movie. It is a tale about … [Read more...]