The following is a transcription of an interview Ann participated in for the BBC. It is transcribed here for your convenience. However, if you would like to listen to the interview, then I encourage you to visit Ann's site. The interview can be found on her "Credits + Talks" page under the "Radio Interviews" heading. Don't forget to sign up for the live chat with Ann, taking … [Read more...]
Pro Tools 10 at AES – Part 2
This is a follow up post to Jamie's article from last night. I spent some time at the Avid booth today to get answers to questions I developed after catching up on the press release data; and to also address some of the points that Jamie brought up in his article. Let's start out with this fancy new multiple file formats in the session. It's quite happy looking at nearly … [Read more...]
Congratulations to Judge Rice!
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29459564[/vimeo] Congratulations to Judge Rice, the winner of Sound Design Challenge #12: Lifeless Howl. It was a fantastic challenge, with so many excellent entries that I quickly lost count. His win was well earned, and it nets him a free copy of the Creatures sound effects library from Boom Library. A big thanks to Boom Library for sponsoring this … [Read more...]
Ann Kroeber Special: Sound for Games – Exclusive Interview
Don't forget to sign up for the live chat with Ann on October 29th. You've contributed to a number of very well known games and franchises in recent years. What's are some of the similarities and differences you've encountered between the game and film industries? As far as sound in these two industries, both film and game sound brings us into the picture and stirs up our … [Read more...]
Ann Kroeber on Weekend America: Recording Animals
Ann would like to share with you, an interview that she participated in with Weekend America a few years ago. The interview is about recording animals: Ann Kroeber: I don't think of myself... I'm not going out and thinking that I'm an animal expert just because I can talk to them. I think that every time I do it, it's always something new. It's like a surprise to me. You can … [Read more...]
Voting for SDC012 Now Open
Public voting for the Sound Design Challenge (#12: Lifeless Howl) is now open. Voting is currently continuing to take place at http://www.dynamicinterference.com/blog/. Head over to this post to review the finalists’ entries and cast your vote! … [Read more...]
Film Sound Discussion Group with Ann Kroeber
The Film Sound Discussion Group is back! The service we were using has updated their software, which should eliminate some of the technical difficulties we encountered with the first. What better way to reboot it than with this month's featured designer, Ann Kroeber? For this discussion, we'll be talking about some of the ways work-flow was influenced by the advent of digital … [Read more...]