The Walter Murch Special continues! With more sound techniques and fantastic theories by the sound master Walter Murch. Let's check two artibles of Filmsound. The first one is an interview where he talks mainly about Transitions: At the basic level, a transition is simply the process of changing from some state A to another state, B. What we should examine carefully is the … [Read more...]
The Sound FX Trampoline by Blastwave FX
Blastwave FX presented The Sound FX Trampoline, at this year's AES convention in New York, NY. So funny! Jumping on the trampoline triggers sounds from Blastwave FX high definition sound effects libraries. The higher you jump, the lower the pitch, and if you jump over twenty-five times a delay kicks in. This video shows a few brave jumpers. You can hear the sounds of a colobus … [Read more...]
Walter Murch Special: Touch Of Evil
Another amazing work by Walter Murch, with the sound and picture editing on the remake of Touch Of Evil. Really interesting techniques applied in both sound and picture. And as usual in Walter Murch articles... you can't miss this! Orson Welles' 1957 film noir masterpiece, Touch of Evil, has recently been re-edited and released to enthusiastic reviews--many revolving around … [Read more...]
Tutorial: Game Audio with Unreal 3 Engine
Richard Stevens has uploaded a tutorial map built in the Unreal 3 engine at the IASIG education working group page. The group aims to facilitate education in all things interactive audio related and we're currently developing international curriculum guidelines for the subject that we hope will prove useful to educators and also to students looking for courses. For our own … [Read more...]
New Sound Design Contest by The Hollywood Edge
Did you participate in the recent Sound Design Competition created by Blastwave FX? Did you like it? The Hollywood Edge is also announcing a new Sound Design Contest, with the re-introduction of its Community forums. For those unfamiliar, the community is simply a location for not only THE users, but for all amateur and professional musicians and sound designers to network and … [Read more...]
Walter Murch Special: Womb Tone and Dense Clarity/Clear Density
Walter Murch has created for an essay called Womb Tone as a companion to his lecture, Dense Clarity - Clear Density, published at Transom. The article is illustrated with sound and film clips, detailing all the process. Don't miss it!.. is very interesting. Womb Tone Hearing is the first of our senses to be switched on, four-and-a-half months after we are conceived. And for … [Read more...]
Sound Design Essentials: Software (I) – Database & Organization
Some people asked me about the third part of Sound Design Essentials, so here is it: Software (4 parts). Part 1: Database & Organization Part 2: Editing Software Part 3: Advanced Transformation Tools Part 4: Noise Reduction and Restoration I clarify that I'm not gonna talk about DAWs. It's something that has been discussed a lot in many different blogs, forums, etc.. … [Read more...]