Blastwave FX has a new collection out called "Heroes & Villains". It's a "collection of 1,000 high definition sound effects to save the world... or destroy it! Created at the Detroit Chop Shop and personally designed by Ric Viers (author of The Sound Effects Bible and The Location Sound Bible), these sound effects will give any production a super-powerful soundtrack. This … [Read more...]
2014 UK Music+Sound Awards Call for Entries
The 3rd Annual UK Music+Sound Awards is now accepting entries. MASA 2014 celebrates the role of music and sound design in the advertising, film, television and gaming industries. The program is open to anyone involved in the creation, composition, sourcing, licensing, briefing, or production of music and sound design for any visual media broadcast or released in the UK. … [Read more...]
Impulsonic Unity Demo
Impulsonic has recently released a Unity Demo that highlights the advanced capabilities of their Acoustect SDK in a game environment. Though best known for its use in detailed architectural acoustic modeling, the SDK provides a physically based 3D audio technology perfectly suited for game engines, providing an incredibly fast simulation of realistic sound occlusion. It allows … [Read more...]
SFX Independence – October 2013
A quick roundup of the independent sfx libraries to have hit our inbox this month. Blastwave FX - Heroes & Villains Blastwave FX have launched a competition to coincide with the release of their latest library collection, Heroes & Villains. You will need to call upon your most potent and deadly super power for a chance to win: entrants have to post a … [Read more...]
Open AIR Library
The Open Acoustic Impulse Response (Open AIR) Library is an amazing resource for sound designers to share acoustical data, and most of the content on this site is released under Creative Commons licenses. … [Read more...]
Charles Maynes on Mid-Side Recording
Sound designer and recordist Charles Maynes has written a great nuts-and-bols article about mid-side recording, posted on the field sepulchra blog a few days ago. The theory and practice of Mid-Side recording doesn't get as much attention as its rockstar cousins, A-B and X-Y stereo configurations, which is odd because Mid-Side is an efficient, logical and just useful technique … [Read more...]
AES Meetup Location Picked!
We've got a location! We'll be meeting at Alfie's at 8:30PM Thursday night. Alfie's can be found at 800 9th Ave. between 53rd and 54th. The nearest subway station is "50th St." on the A, C and E line, but it might be just as fast to walk (from the Javits Center that is). It takes about a 20 minutes on foot from the Javits Center (map below), but they have craft beers and a … [Read more...]