The guys at BOOM Library have announced a new sound effects collection, called Creatures, featuring three different libraries: Creatures - Construction Kit - More than 9 GB of source material including more than 6000 single sounds in over 1000 files, oriented to create your own unique creatures. Creatures - Designed - 250 “ready to use” sounds of different creature designs, … [Read more...]
October's Featured Sound Designer: Aaron Marks
I'm happy to announce Aaron Marks as our October's guest on Designing Sound. A multi-disciplinary audio professional with background in music composition, sound design, field recording, and more. Author of "The Complete guide to Game Audio" and teacher at The Art Institute of California. A very kind person ready to share lots of cool things with us this month. Bio Best known … [Read more...]
More About the Sound of "Crackdown 2"
The October's issue of Developer Magazine is now available in the official website. This time, our beloved "Heard About" section includes an article about the sound of Crackdown 2, with Kristofor Mellroth, who we interviewed some days ago. When Kristofor Mellroth enrolled at music recording school in 1995, he probably never dreamt that in just a few year’s time he’d be heading … [Read more...]
David Farmer Special: Reader Questions
Here are answers to the questions you sent to David. Many thanks for the amazing support during this month! It was awesome! Designing Reader: I have lots of questions. David is a hero of mine. How do you organize your editing sessions? In what way do you find is the best way to organize your tracks – i.e. do you use track naming conventions, track colors, region colors, etc. … [Read more...]
David Farmer Special: The Lord of the Rings [Exclusive Interview]
Here is the final article of the great David Farmer Special, an interview we had with him, talking about his work on LOTR. I tried to ask for the stuff you can't find detailed in other interviews or the BTS of the DVDs, so... Hope you enjoy it! Designing Sound: When did you start on the films and how what were initial conversations with Peter Jackson and company like? David … [Read more...]
Making Orcs with Chuck Russom FX's Dogs Library [Video + Review]
Some days ago, my friend Chuck Russom sent me an amazing library for beta testing and for doing a demo/review in the same day of the release, which is today. So here we go! The Library The library is called Dogs, and includes 158 sounds at 192kHz/24-Bit, recorded from 14 different trained dogs. The sounds are really great, include all kind performances and have a pretty good … [Read more...]
Chuck Russom FX Releases Dogs SFX Library
Chuck Russom has announced the release of his Dogs sound effects library, from his independent company Chuck Russom FX. The collection includes 158 sounds recorded at 192kHz. Dogs Sound Library from Chuck Russom FX features vocalizations from 14 professionally trained animal actors. This collection includes barks, whines, yelps, growls, snarls, and sounds that I can’t even … [Read more...]