Could you imagine the concept of television re-imagined for sound designers only? How would that be? How would be a Field Recording TV channel? or can you imagine a show where you can see how the sound of a recent film was done? or what about watching some channels where you can find other guys like you recording sounds outside the world? What if you could watch interviews … [Read more...]
New Look of Designing Sound and New Brother Site Coming Tomorrow
It's incredible. This year is almost over! It has been an amazing year for Designing Sound. We have grown a lot and have had the opportunity to share a lot of incredible material, learn, and create community. Designing Sound is no longer a simple blog and has become something like a full time job for me. That's why I feel a constant need to improve it each day and offer more … [Read more...]
Bottle Rocket Fx, Independent SFX Library of Bruce Bueckert
[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="secret_url=false" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/5361410"] Bruce Bueckert of Juice Studios in Santa Monica, California has started Bottle Rocket Fx, a royalty-free sound effects library. His first two releases include Drones 5.1 and Drones 2.0. Drones 2.0 ($35) - 24-Bit/96kHz – 62 Stereo Sounds – 1.59GB Download These … [Read more...]
HISS and a ROAR Releases “PRESSURE” SFX Library, Exclusive Q&A with Tim Prebble
Tim Prebble is announcing the release of "PRESSURE", the fifth sfx library released on HISS and a ROAR, a new collection that many sound designers will love. We all know sound occurs through the vibration of air molecules, but what happens when you deliberately manipulate the pressure? We’ve employed a vast range of devices for exactly that purpose: a five ton steam engine, an … [Read more...]
Sound Design Challenge #4 Announced
Shaun Farley has just published the details for the fourth sound design challenge. Let's get to work! This is a short video. And after you’ve downloaded it, you’ll see that it’s a timelapse. So how do you think I’m going to challenge you on this one? If you guessed that I will say, “No whooshes, swishes or the like…then congratulations, you guessed correctly.” Honestly, … [Read more...]
Exclusive Interview with Axel Rohrbach from BOOM Library, Creatures Available Now
The new Creatures SFX library of BOOM Library is available now, including three different packages: -- Creatures – Construction Kit – More than 9 GB of source material including more than 7300 single sounds in over 1000 files, oriented to create your own unique creatures. -- Creatures – Designed – 300 “ready to use” sounds of different creature designs, including huge and … [Read more...]
The Recordist Releases "Flying Insects 2" SFX Library
Frank Bry has released Flying Insects 2 SoundBox HD, the second package of bug recordings, including 297.4MB of material recorded at 96kHz/24-Bit. The bugs are back! Introducing Flying Insects 2 SoundBox HD. This all new collection has a ton of crazy sounds from live insects recorded at 24-Bit 96K over the last few months. This is the 2nd in a series of what I call “bugs gone … [Read more...]