Lavalier microphones are useful in a lot of situations when you're in the field. Their small size makes it easy to fit them into tight spaces to record perspectives that you wouldn't normally be able to listen to. You can get very close to small objects or even insects or birds and given that they're usually omnidirectional, they are great for recording natural … [Read more...]
Escape Room Sound Design for the Battle of Britain
photo credit: Oli Harrison, Oliharrison.com Interesting description of escape room sound design, which appears to be an up and coming avenue for sound designers. Escape room sound designer Oli Harrison describes his process of creating an immersive WWII experience for an escape room, transporting the attendants into the audio world of 1940. … [Read more...]
A Trip to “One Square Inch” with Field Recordist Thomas Rex Beverly
In this blog post, Thomas Rex Beverly shares parts of his recordings, tips about keeping gear dry and lessons learned from his trip to Hoh Rain Forest. One of the recordings is a thirty-five minute take of the natural silence from "One Square Inch". Listen to the recordings and read the full post on Beverly's blog here. … [Read more...]
Our Favorite Sounds of 2017
The year 2017 has been one of many great articles, interviews, and discussions here at Designing Sound and we want to thank all of our readers for their attention, suggestions, contributions, and overwhelming support. There have been so many great films, shows, games, and events this year that we thought we would share some of our favorites for you to go back and check out in … [Read more...]
Zoom H2n Review — A Portable Storyteller
Whenever I meet someone who's keen in getting into post audio the most common thing they mention is that if they had the right tools, only then they would be able to break into the industry. While we tend to associate higher quality with higher price, this relationship is not always accurate and for sound that is no exception. It's true that expensive recorders are expected to … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 26 – The Establishing Field
As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… This week, I'm returning to the little thread of visual analogs that I had going for a while. I recently … [Read more...]
News: How to Create Horror Sound Effects
In an appropriately seasonal blog post over at A Sound Effect, Asbjoern speaks to Saro Sahihi of SoundBits, a boutique SFX library and sound design company. Saro, who has released some excellent gore SFX libraries, goes in-depth on how to achieve some truly squishy, wrenching, and disgusting gore sounds for all your horror needs. He even touches on some other horror mainstays, … [Read more...]