It Seems that the Virtual Instruments Magazine is back to life. They have a new issue with nice content, including a great interview with Eric Persing, sound designer, composer and founder of Spectrasonics, one of the best companies in the would of virtual instruments. Check: What led you to sound design? I never really pursued being a sound designer, because at the time there … [Read more...]
Richard Devine Special: Conversation at Whole Music Club
Here are four videos of a great conversations of Richard Devine at Whole Music Club talking about some his career. It's more electronic music oriented, but have really great info about Richard, such as his first gear acquisitions, his first records, his commercial career and more. Let's see: … [Read more...]
The Sound in the Era of 3D Films
The era of 3D and super-visual films has come. So, what about sound? What could be the next step on film sound? Tim Prebble has made a great review about this topic, regarding some aspects abut the technology and the techniques that could be implemented to reach a new level on the sound for this new era of filmmaking. Let's read: Along with the hyperbolic (& in my opinion … [Read more...]
AudioMedia January Issue Now Online With More "Avatar" Sound
AudioMedia has just published the January Issue of his magazine, featuring a cool article about the sound of Avatar, about which we had already read also in Mix days ago. This time we have more info about the the main challenge of the sound team and how they work to get an amazing sound for an amazing film. You can also find nice articles about some products such as Sound … [Read more...]
Interview with Chuck Russom
George Spanos has launched a new interviews section on GameSoundDesign.com. That category started with Chuck Russom, sound designer of videogames such as God Of War, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty and more. Great talk! Game Sound Design: Taking a quick glance at your credit list, it's obvious you have a passion for sound. What motivated you to become a game sound … [Read more...]
Richard Devine Special: Experiments
One of the most active "fields" of Richard Devine is the experimentation with sound. He has a lot of really cool videos on his Vimeo account, with some experiments made on synths, virtual instruments, effects, controllers, etc. Let's see: The Ekdahl Moisturizer is a spring reverb where the springs are exposed so they can be played/hit/fiddled with. I was just playing around … [Read more...]
The Sound of "Terminator Salvation"
Supervising sound editor and designer Cameron Frankley talks about the unique work his sound crew brought to Director McG’s fourth installment of the Terminator series. See the array of sounds that were recorded to bring to life the cast of robots and cyborgs set in 2018. Vía SoundWorks Collection … [Read more...]