I started this series a year ago...well, a year ago next week...with the goal of making myself continue thinking about sound in new ways. When I was regularly writing longer pieces for this site, that was easy to do. As I stepped back into more of a background role though, I found myself missing the constant motivation to evaluate the way I approach sound. So this was all about … [Read more...]
Round 3 Winners and Next Week’s Prizes
So how did we pick this week's winners? We took the two users who asked questions that generated the most discussion, and the two users who answered the most questions (with overall reputation as a tie breaker), then randomly drew names out of a hat to assign our prizes. So here they are... BernC wins a copy of Krotos Dehumaniser II for answering 5 questions this week … [Read more...]
Managing Quality of Life (as a Manager)
We all work in creative fields doing creative work with creative people. Along with that creativity is some semblance, great or small, of technology and the requirement for us to guesstimate the length each task we do will take. Making an entertainment product, no matter the medium, has elements of reinventing the wheel and huge swaths of unknown creative territory. The … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 51 – Ornery Listener
As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… There used to be a time when I could turn off the sound editor/mixer side of my brain while consuming … [Read more...]
Round 2 Winners and Next Week’s Prizes
Congratulations to this weeks winners! This week, the staff of Designing Sound watched the activity and selected their "contributors of note." Once that was done, we randomly drew names out the hat for each prize. And the winners are... Selected by Wilfried - user mattesque for his mention of some great free plugins here. mattesque has won a copy of Sound Particles … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 50 – Being Mindful of the Present (…Sound)
As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… This week is an extension of last week's thought. It's also partly inspired by a recent re-watch of In Pursuit … [Read more...]
This Week’s Soundsnap Winners…and Next Week’s Prizes
Congrats to this week's winners! Here's how we picked them this week... Most Popular Question (by votes) - Jason (flamewhell) Most Popular Answer (by votes) - noisejockey Biggest Supporter (they who cast the most votes) - KJ22 Thank you to Soundsnap for sponsoring this week! We won't be using these methods to select winners for next week's prizes. We've got an entirely … [Read more...]