McDSP has published a new user profile, featuring sound designer David Farmer. “When I'm designing new sounds, I build in premix tracks that get bussed down to auxes, and those auxes then get bussed down to a composite. I almost always have an instance of Analog Channel on those premix auxes, and often an ML4000 too.” “It's hard to put into words why McDSP products sound … [Read more...]
Sound Doodle, New Sound Manipulator by Andrew Spitz
Andrew Spitz, know as founder of Social Sound Design and blogger at { sound+design }, where he showcases a lot of cool projects, such as his latest creation, called Sound Doodle, a very cool app for experimenting with sounds in many ways. Sound Doodle is a free desktop application for Mac that takes the act of doodling, and brings it to the world of sound. The interface … [Read more...]
Inside the Waves Sound Design Suite [Pt 5] – GTR, A Powerful Sound Design Tool
Fifth article in the series dedicated to explore all the tools included in the Sound Design Suite of Waves. (Remember that you still have enough time to design some great sounds and participate in the competition.) Today I'm going to talk about a very special suite of tools; a little box of toys included in the suite called GTR. It was originally created for guitar/bass … [Read more...]
Inside the Waves Sound Design Suite [Pt 4] – Transformation Tools
Fourth article in this series dedicated to explore the plugins included in the Waves Sound Design Suite. Today's topic is transformation, featuring five effects: Doubler Doppler Morphoder SoundShifter UltraPitch Doubler, Morphoder and ShoundShifter are included in the Waves Transform bundle, so reading its description could give you a basic overview of the kind of … [Read more...]
Inside the Waves Sound Design Suite [Pt 3] – Modulation Effects
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...]
Bruce Tanis Special: Cutting Weird Things on "Fringe"
I started editing sound effects at Todd-AO back in 19.......... Something-or-other! I started working on a show called "Brooklyn Bridge" produced by Gary David Goldberg. I worked in television for a few years and then moved over to working on features. With a few brief side trips back to TV, I stayed in the feature world ever since until starting in on "Fringe" in August, … [Read more...]
Charles Deenen's Sound Design Webinar is Available for Viewing Online
Some days ago Charles Deenen gave a webinar talking abou the use Waves plugins for sound design, and also answering some questions from the attendees. The webinar is available for viewing online now! After clicking on a video link you will be prompted to sign into the webinar system. Please use the following information to view any of our previous webinar videos: Username – … [Read more...]