Frank Bry has released Rifle Actions HD, a new library of gun foley, including 398 sounds (66 files) recorded at 96kHz/24-Bit. Here's what Frank says about it: Presenting Guns: Rifle Actions HD, the first in a series of gun foley action sound effects libraries. Included are 6 rifles, old and new: PTR-91 Semi-automatic Rifle (based on the Heckler & Koch G3/HK91), … [Read more...]
David Farmer on McDSP Plugins
McDSP has published a new user profile, featuring sound designer David Farmer. “When I'm designing new sounds, I build in premix tracks that get bussed down to auxes, and those auxes then get bussed down to a composite. I almost always have an instance of Analog Channel on those premix auxes, and often an ML4000 too.” “It's hard to put into words why McDSP products sound … [Read more...]
June’s Featured Sound Designer: Coll Anderson
I'm pleased to announce a new special guest on Designing Sound: Coll Anderson. About Coll Anderson has been working with sound for 24 years. His work includes recording, editing, designing and mixing, and spans indie art house classics, award-winning documentaries, and many studio films. From Documentaries including Errol Morrisʼ Oscar winning “The Fog of War”, Sundance Grand … [Read more...]
The Sound of “The Tree of Life”
New article of Mix Magazine featuring sound designers Craig Berkey and Erik Aadahl talking about his work on "The Tree of Life". Pity the poor journalist who has to write an article about a Terrence Malick film before it’s released. The notoriously publicity-shy director isn’t talking, the official synopsis is tantalizing but sketchy, the actors are purposefully vague in … [Read more...]
GameSoundCon Announces Los Angeles 2011 Game Audio Seminar
New GameSoundCon seminar announced. Here's the official info: April 28, 2011 Seattle, WA – SoundCon, LLC announces the addition of Los Angeles, CA to its list of 2011 locations for GameSoundCon, conference on game music composition and game sound design. GameSoundCon 2011 LA is an intensive full-day seminar for composers, sound designers, recording engineers and other audio … [Read more...]
Marie Ebbing and Jonathon Stevens on Noise Removal
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/24230801[/vimeo] New video of SoundWorks Collection featuring Marie Ebbing and Jonathon Stevens who talk about their work on removing noise from recordings. Marie Ebbing & Jonathon Stevens offer advanced noise removal services for music and film post production using a suite of tools by the software developer Algorithmix. These noise removal tools … [Read more...]
Scott Morton on Combat Audio for “Star Wars: The Old Republic”
New article at the official website of "Star Wars: The Old Republic", featuring sound designer Scott Morton. Hi, my name’s Scott Morton, and I’m one of the audio designers who helps create the soundscape for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. I spend half my time coming up with new sounds for different parts of the game (explosions!), and the other half conceptualizing … [Read more...]