People often ask why I’m a sound designer and how I ended up with an active career creating sounds. It’s not something I specifically sought out but now that I’m a dozen years into doing it professionally, I’m really happy that I’m here. I actually started as a composer with the dream of scoring blockbuster Hollywood films but with the unpredictability of life, I ended up on … [Read more...]
October's Featured Sound Designer: Aaron Marks
I'm happy to announce Aaron Marks as our October's guest on Designing Sound. A multi-disciplinary audio professional with background in music composition, sound design, field recording, and more. Author of "The Complete guide to Game Audio" and teacher at The Art Institute of California. A very kind person ready to share lots of cool things with us this month. Bio Best known … [Read more...]
More About the Sound of "Crackdown 2"
The October's issue of Developer Magazine is now available in the official website. This time, our beloved "Heard About" section includes an article about the sound of Crackdown 2, with Kristofor Mellroth, who we interviewed some days ago. When Kristofor Mellroth enrolled at music recording school in 1995, he probably never dreamt that in just a few year’s time he’d be heading … [Read more...]
Chuck Russom FX Releases Dogs SFX Library
Chuck Russom has announced the release of his Dogs sound effects library, from his independent company Chuck Russom FX. The collection includes 158 sounds recorded at 192kHz. Dogs Sound Library from Chuck Russom FX features vocalizations from 14 professionally trained animal actors. This collection includes barks, whines, yelps, growls, snarls, and sounds that I can’t even … [Read more...]
David Farmer Special: Field Recording Videos
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHI0-oA9UKg[/youtube] David Farmer has published more than 20 videos taken from his field recording sessions. You'll find a very good dose of inspiration. From worldizing, to ambience recording, fails, accidents and more. It's great! Feel free to go to David Farmer's YouTube Channel and have fun! … [Read more...]
David Farmer Special: Field Recording 2010
I meant to say this in the introduction interview, but these are just my opinions and are not intended to be directions for, or judgements on how anyone else should or does work. One of the great things about working with sound is there are as many approaches to getting the job done, as there are people doing it. If I say something with some conviction that contradicts what … [Read more...]
Wired Magazine: Ben Burtt Talks "The Sounds of Star Wars" Book
Wired has published an exclusive video featuring Ben Burtt, Randy Thom and the guys behind the sound of "Star Wars: Clone Wars" (Matthew Wood and David Acord) talking about the recently announced "The Sounds of Star Wars" book from J.W Rinzler and the legacy of the Star Wars sounds. There are also several video footage of the original recording sessions that Ben and Randy had … [Read more...]