Chuck Russom has announced the release of a limited edition of Rain, a new sound effects library loaded with over 20 minutes of rain recording. December Rain is a “Limited Edition” mini-sound library. Available until December 31, 2010. This library features over 20 mins of rain recorded at 24bit 96K. Each recording is between :40 and 1:45 long. Includes 12 files, total library … [Read more...]
The Sound Collectors’ Club – December’s Theme: Night and Day
The Sound Collectors' Club has announced the theme for December's recordings: Night and Day. “On the topic of the next theme. Maybe something like ‘Five minutes outside your front door’. Then you’d get a good range of sounds, countryside/city/people, etc. And then maybe they could record twice, one day/one night, more useful that way. Give people the opportunity of work or … [Read more...]
The Recordist Announces Ultimate Fire SFX Library
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/17402320[/vimeo] The Recordist has announced Ultimate Fire SFX Library, a new huge SoundBox Pro SFX Library loaded with over 700 fire sound effects. It's coming December 15, 2010. Here is my teaser video for my next Ultimate SFX library. This video was really a gas to make (No pun intended). I re-lived all those scorching hot moments standing within 4 … [Read more...]
Introducing Designing Sound TV, Television for Sound Designers
Could you imagine the concept of television re-imagined for sound designers only? How would that be? How would be a Field Recording TV channel? or can you imagine a show where you can see how the sound of a recent film was done? or what about watching some channels where you can find other guys like you recording sounds outside the world? What if you could watch interviews … [Read more...]
December's Featured Sound Designer: Frank Bry
Let's get started with this amazing month. This time the guest is our good friend Frank Bry, sound designer and recordist who will share with us a lot of incredible stuff. Hope you enjoy it! Bio Frank Bry founded Creative Sound Design aka: The Recordist in 1986 with digital sound sound libraries for Sampling Keyboards. The company evolved from Frank Bry’s beginnings as a … [Read more...]
New Look of Designing Sound and New Brother Site Coming Tomorrow
It's incredible. This year is almost over! It has been an amazing year for Designing Sound. We have grown a lot and have had the opportunity to share a lot of incredible material, learn, and create community. Designing Sound is no longer a simple blog and has become something like a full time job for me. That's why I feel a constant need to improve it each day and offer more … [Read more...]
Jamey Scott Special: Reader Questions
Here are the questions made by the readers and answered by our special guest Jamey Scott. Designing Sound Reader: You said you enjoy building scenes from scratch. Where do you like to start? Background to foreground? Foreground to background? Jamey Scott: I prefer background to foreground. Frequently background stuff gets discarded as mixes get bigger, but I like to have it to … [Read more...]