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Daan Hendricks: Black River Sweden Field Recording Trip

July 10, 2018 by Adriane Kuzminski

In this blog post, field recordist Daan Hendricks shares some of the sights and sounds he captured during the Black River Sweden recording trip in April. Hear the strange calls and powerful wing flaps of beautiful capercaillies and lush active ambiences filled with black grouse, loons, bitterns, frogs, and more of the country's fascinating wildlife. If it inspires you to … [Read more...]

Hilarity in Unexpected Places

September 25, 2017 by Isabella Ness

Let the Libraries Laugh! Curating and organizing libraries is a part of this discipline that I love. Previewing, testing, merging into databases, updating master caches, and of course, designing. Libraries are just...fun. For this month’s theme I wanted to embrace that wilier side of this more clerical end of our work. I always like to stumble across sounds that take me by … [Read more...]

Pushing the Boundary – Your Stories: SFX Creators, Part 5

June 20, 2016 by Adriane Kuzminski

If you are a sound effects or synth creator who has submitted a library to the Designing Sound monthly recaps and you would like to contribute to this series (and for some you haven't received the questionnaire—check your spam folder), please email [email protected].   In this fifth installment about how SFX creators have pushed artistic and professional … [Read more...]

New SFX Libraries: May Recap

June 9, 2016 by Adriane Kuzminski

Men stand outside a van recording the rainforest ambience of Papua New Guinea.

If you are releasing a new SFX library and you would like it to be included in our recap, send us the details with our SFX Independence Submission Form. Please only notify us of libraries that were released within the last month or substantially updated.   There was a record number of submissions last month with 21 new libraries, and two of them are free! So if … [Read more...]

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