The Recordist has released Mangled Metal, a collection of 715 sound effects, including metal rips, tears, dents, scrapes, folds, slides, rubs, impacts, crashes, drops and more. Being a pack-rat runs in the family so I instinctively saved all kinds of metal like my old roof, appliances, stoves, containers, steel bars, pipes, barrels, etc. Recorded with a variety of microphones … [Read more...]
Axel Rohrbach Special: Exclusive Interview
To get things started on this month's featured sound designer, here's an interview of Axel Rohrbach: Designing Sound: While we all know about BOOM Library, tell us about yourself. What got you interested in sound? Axel Rohrbach: I can not remember any day in my life without being involved in any way in audio. The reason is simple: my parents own a music-school. I started with … [Read more...]
Post Magazine: Recording ‘Mr. Popper’s’ Penguins
Quick article from Post Magazine featuring Mark Mangini, who talks about his work on"Mr. Popper's Penguins". Mangini decided to capture original penguin recordings, so he arranged to have access to the birds that were used in the film. “We couldn’t use a regular recording facility because penguins need to be in an environment that is 40 degrees or colder at all times,” he … [Read more...]
Detroit Chop Shop Video Diary – Season 2
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04uPgdICn_A[/youtube] After the great first season of the Detroit Chop Shop video diary, Ric Viers and three new interns have started to record more sounds and have more fun in a second season. You can follow the series directly from DSTV. … [Read more...]
West Texas Gun Recording
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/23313309[/vimeo] René Coronado has recently published a fantastic three-part article on gun recording, including details on pre-production, reports of the sessions, how was the editing/tagging process and more. So a little while back I packed up the mics and headed out west to record some gunfire with my friends. Not because I had a project that … [Read more...]
The Recordist Releases Ultimate Chain
Many of you already know what the "Ultimate" word means in the sfx world... More fun from The Recordist! This time the turn is for chains, featured in the new Ultimate Chain library, which includes 670 different sounds presented on 160 files recorded at 24-Bit 96kHz in WAV format. Included in this collection are a wide variety of performances with large heavy chains, medium … [Read more...]
TONSTURM Releases The Whoosh
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/23456902[/vimeo] TONSTURM has released The Whoosh, a new sfx library loaded wih 160 whoosh/pass by recordings, containing 1030 different sounds. For The Whoosh we did quiet some research. Again we wanted to come up with fresh and unique sound effects so we tested all kinds of things and build our own custom made whoosh devices. We build a wooden … [Read more...]