Shaun Farley has announced the sound design challenge for December. This one is pretty fun! Take a look: If there’s one thing that all sound editors/designers have in common, it’s that at some point we are all reduced to speaking in onomatopoeia. There are times where it’s just more efficient to to talk or write in nonsensical gobbledy-gook to communicate about the sounds we’re … [Read more...]
Frank Bry Special: Methods of a Metadata Madman [Part 1]
[Written by Frank Bry for Designing Sound] I have a love-hate relationship with metadata. I love it because it enables me to efficiently and accurately find exactly the sounds I'm looking for. I hate it because it can be a tedious, time consuming process, one that I would like to outsource to my alien clone living on Mars (if I had one). I love it because once it's done, … [Read more...]
The Recordist Releases Ultimate Fire SFX Library
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/17806164[/vimeo] The Recordist has released Ultimate Fire Soundbox HD, an insane collection of fire recordings, including 583 sound effects recorded at 192kHz/24-Bit. At long last, here it is, after four long years and zero trips to the emergency room, what every serious sound designer needs: A professionally recorded fire sound effects library. I … [Read more...]
HISS and a ROAR Announces CrowdSource Library 2: ROOM TONES
The first crowdsource sfx library of HISS and a ROAR has been finished and Tim Prebble is ready for the second collection: Room Tones. Traditionally Room Tone referred to the recording of (near) silence on set, to help dialogue editors with filling their tracks/matching backgrounds to different camera/mic angles and/or extraneous sound. It’s also known as a buzz track … [Read more...]
"Fallout: New Vegas" – Exclusive Interview with Audio Director Scott Lawlor
I love the Fallout franchise. The gameplay style is fantastic, the technology is top notch and all the places and stories are really unique. After the success of Bethesda with the great Fallout 3, now the turn is for Obsidian, who released "Fallout: New Vegas", a new installment of the game which bring us to a journey through the world of New Vegas, a post apocalyptic … [Read more...]
10 New RODE Rage Interviews with Entertainment Audio Professionals
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4w7pGbqLMc[/youtube] As I told yesterday, RODE has started new video series called Rode Rage, where Ric Viers interviews several professionals of the entertainment audio world. Well, they have published more videos, including very cool interviews with other ten sound professionals, including: (Links to DS TV. Complete playlist … [Read more...]
More About the Sound of "TRON: Legacy"
The december's issue of AudioMedia is available online now, including an interesting article about the sound of "TRON: Legacy", featuring conversations with supervising sound editors Addison Teague and Gwen Whittle. AudioMedia - December 2010 (jump directly to the article) … [Read more...]