Welcome to the third part of this series of articles dedicated to explore the sound design suite of Waves. Today the turn is for five powerful modulation-featured plugins included in the bundle: Enigma H-Delay MetaFlanger MondoMod SuperTap "These plug-ins make up what I like to call my "Audio Mangler Gang of Toys." I use all of them because of their ability to modulate … [Read more...]
Inside the Waves Sound Design Suite [Pt 2] – Renaissance and V-Series
Continuing with this series of articles dedicated to explore the Waves Sound Design Suite, now let's move to a very special plugins included in the suite. I'm talking about the amazing Renaissance and the (recently added) V-Series. The Sound Design Suite doesn't include the whole Renaissance Maxx Suite, but it includes enough tools for sound design purposes. All those … [Read more...]
Inside the Waves Sound Design Suite [Pt 1] – Frequency and Dynamics Control
Welcome to the first of a series of posts dedicated to explore the whole Sound Design Suite of Waves. Apart of my own review, I'll also include anecdotes, opinions, tips and tricks from professional sound designers that use these plugins everyday. Today I'm going to talk about several tools designed for dynamics and frequency control, including the following: L1, L2, L3 and … [Read more...]
“UDK Sound Explorations”, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks on Implementing Sound in UDK
UDK Sound Explorations is a new and promising blog created by sound designer Graham Gatheral with the goal of sharing his finds and tricks on implementing sound with UDK. I've started recording and editing sound for a game built in UDK, so in order to get up to speed on the implementation side of things, I've made a basic level which I can use like a sandbox environment. When I … [Read more...]
New FMOD Video Tutorials Available
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIil0OFtqxc[/youtube] The FMOD team have posted several video tutorials on their new YouTube channel. Videos include all kind of stuff. From introduction/basics to advanced techniques. FMOD TV on YouTube. … [Read more...]
Frank Bry Special: Sound Effects Transformation: From This to That
[Written by Frank Bry for Designing Sound] I don't often have time to mess around with the sounds I record. Between recording new sound effects and game sound design, I am just tapped out as far as time is concerned. The remainder of my available time involves cataloging new assets, editing metadata, or editing sounds for a new release. Every now and then I will wander off … [Read more...]
Jamey Scott Special: Stem Workflow [Video Tutorial]
Jamey Scott has created a fantastic 15min long video tutorial on stem workflow. He showcases several Pro Tools templates he uses on sound design and mixing, giving details of the tracks, Aux/FX routing, stem organization, groups, etc. … [Read more...]