Lots of cool sound effects released in just one week! Today, The Recordist is announcing the release of Snowfall HD, a fantastic library of snow falling sounds recorded at North Idaho. Included in this collection are a wide variety of snow falling sounds recorded in some seriously freezing weather conditions. I recorded dozens of takes of snow falling off trees, numerous powder … [Read more...]
Rabbit Ears Audio Releases Metal Machines SFX Library, Q&A Included
Michael Raphael, owner at Rabbit Ears Audio, has finally released his fourth library, called Metal Machines, featuring recordings of 11 incredible machines from a vintage train repair facility. Shake, Rattle, and Rumble. Those are just a few of the sounds that heavy machinery makes when it is fired up and put into action. The age of the steam locomotive has long faded in the … [Read more...]
Winter Wind Sound Effects and Avalanche Sound Design on The Recordist
The Recordist has released Winter Wind HD, a new sfx library loaded with three different Winter blizzards recorded at 96kHz and 24-Bit. This collection includes wicked cold wind ambience from three seperate snow storms in North Idaho. Recorded at 24Bit 96kHz in 2008 and 2010, these blizzards from the great white north swept in and completely froze everything in its path. The … [Read more...]
BOOM Releases Multi-Channel Guns SFX Library, 10% Discount for DS Readers
BOOM Library has released a new sound effects library called GUNS. They're offering two fantastic packages, as usual: GUNS Construction Kit - €149 | 17 guns | 96kHz and 24-Bit | 12 channel multitrack recording | Over 1050 files | Soundminer metadata ready Get the first multichannel source recording weapon library in the world! This Construction Kit ships as a complete 2 DVD … [Read more...]
Secrets for Great Film Sound, Complimentary Webinar by David Sonnenschein and Ric Viers
David Sonnenschein and Ric Viers are announcing a new complementary webinar (1 hour) on film sound. Here is the official information: Learn from the Experts how to Solve Audio Challenges and Boost Creativity in Sound Recording, Editing and Design Learn the essential tools and techniques from the best in the business! How do you talk to the producer to get the gig in the … [Read more...]
Coming Soon in the Independent SFX World: Metal Machines, Electricity and Guns (Updated with more)
I'm still impressed of how fast the SFX independence scene has grown since the last year. This is just the first month of 2011 and there are already several great SFX libraries coming from different independent companies: Rabbit Ears Audio - Metal Machines Michael Raphael is ready for the release of another wonderful package of sound effects in Rabbit Ears Audio. This time he … [Read more...]
Game Audio Rewind: 2010
Damian Kastbauer, writer of the audio implementation greats series has published an insane list of game audio links that he collected during the past year. Lots of very informative articles! Now that 2010 is closed out, I just wanted to take a second and round up a batch of links to various projects that I was involved with and get them all lumped into a 'splosion of game … [Read more...]