Article By: Frank Bry Transient enhancement plug-ins are wonderful tools to have in a sound designer’s arsenal. They can be used to soften a sound or to make it balls to the wall, hard hitting intense. Explosion sounds really benefit from this type of process. If you have recorded explosions, you may already have discovered that live is much better than tape, or should I … [Read more...]
Sound Effects for Charity
Charles Maynes and SoundDogs.com have teamed up for two very special sound effects libraries. "Sounds of Modern Conflict" is two volumes of small arms sound effects in 5.1, stereo and mono mixes. Volume 1 is 19 effects of U.S. and NATO infantry small arms weaponry. Volume 2 is 18 effects of Russian small arms weaponry. Both packs are 24 bit/96 kHz. 100% of the proceeds from … [Read more...]
Dynamics Processors = Envelope Generators
Charles Maynes' post earlier this month reminded me of an idea I had but never bothered to actually test out...using dynamics processors as envelope generators. If you've ever listened to me rant at all in the last two and a half years I've been active in this online community, you've probably at some point heard me say, "Compressors don't make things louder, make up gain … [Read more...]
Another Sound Effects Library Round-Up
Awesome new libraries continue to pop up. Here are some of the latest releases we've noticed: Echo Collective has just released a new library titled "Motion Textures." This is a design package built for drawing sonic lines and creating gently moving sonic textures. The concept is that consistent sound of friction will translate well to visual design elements that have CG and … [Read more...]
Pausing Modulation in Enigma
I thought a quick video would be the more efficient way to present this one. [youtube]http://youtu.be/OJB7yDpoFAE[/youtube] … [Read more...]
A Plug-in Vector Matrix
Guest Contribution by Charles Maynes The best things in life are sort of free... Peter Gabriel once described his creative process as being an “X” and ”Y” sort of thinking- Basically trying to segregate his “artistic” thinking from his “technical” thinking. In this DAW universe we live in, we seem to be constantly flipping modes...and often times we want to be able to … [Read more...]
2013 Kicks Off with Plug-in Month
Happy New Year from all of us here at Designing Sound! This month is going to be devoted to a lighter, slightly braoder topic of discussion...Plug-ins. This won't be an open-ended, catch-all, "any and every" discussion, though. We'll be focusing on the novel, weird and wacky side of these tools we all use in sound design. Plug-ins that create strange, esoteric and exotic … [Read more...]