U.S.O has published an interesting post about the sound and music of Saving Private Ryan, a film with the sound design of our Julys's featured: Gary Rydstrom. Gary Rydstrom (an excerpt from Surround Sound, Second Edition): Since we hear all around us, while seeing only to the front, sounds have long been used to alert us to danger. In Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, … [Read more...]
More than 50 Articles/Tutorials about Sound Design, Recording and more, Plus Wooshes Sound Design
The woosh, a sound effect used very often out there. Did you know everything about them? In this tutorial, Tim Prebble, from Music of Sound explains how to record and process wooshes. The (semi/un) technical term is ‘Woosh’, or maybe ‘Whoosh’ if you are American – i’m not so I don’t know, but hey i’ve seen a few files labelled as such, so call them whatever you like but they … [Read more...]
The Sound FX Trampoline by Blastwave FX
Blastwave FX presented The Sound FX Trampoline, at this year's AES convention in New York, NY. So funny! Jumping on the trampoline triggers sounds from Blastwave FX high definition sound effects libraries. The higher you jump, the lower the pitch, and if you jump over twenty-five times a delay kicks in. This video shows a few brave jumpers. You can hear the sounds of a colobus … [Read more...]
Walter Murch Special: The Concept of Worldizing
Worldizing, an amazing sound design concept created by Walter Murch. Watch the video to know all about that process. There are at Filmsound one interesting article about Worldizing; Walter said: George (Lucas) and I took the master track of the two-hour radio show with Wolfman Jack as DJ and played it back on a Nagra in a real space - a suburban backyard. I was fifty-or-so-feet … [Read more...]
Walter Murch Special: Roadtrip Nation Video Interview
Let's begin the Walter Murch Special, with a interesting video interview at Roadtrip Nation: Fortunately for Walter, he discovered at an early age that he had a gift for sound recording, even though he didn't take his youthful experiments seriously until after he had explored other paths, including architecture and oceanography. Always eager to push things and see what … [Read more...]
Ben Burtt Special: Wall-E – Animation Sound Revolution!
This is the end of the Ben Burtt Special. In the Extras of the DVD of Wall-E there are an amazing documentary called "Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds From The Sound Up". You have to see it! Don't worry if you don't have the original DVD, I found that video on YouTube. The embed was disabled but you can see it through this links: Part 1 | Part 2. Finally, let's check … [Read more...]
10 Interesting Videos About Sound Design for Games
IPR School has posted five additional videos to his compilation of videos about creating audio for videogames. Maybe you already seen some of these here at DS, but be sure to see the rest, very interesting! Playlist 1-5 [View] Heavenly Sword Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Gears of War Dead Space Gears of War 2 Playlist 6-7 [View] Scarface Game Chronicles … [Read more...]