With a $68.2 million opening weekend and a beautiful story, UP has become one of the most representative Pixar's movies. Here we have grouped some information about the music and sound of the film. Staff Directors. Pete Docter and Bob Peterson Music Mixing - Michael Semanick Effects Mixing & Sound Design - Tom Myers Sound Supervising - Michael Silvers Sound Mix: SDDS … [Read more...]
GameSoundcon, the First Conference Dedicated to the Learning of Games Sound and Music
GameSoundCon is the first conference to game audio developers and audio professionals who want to learn the necessary skills to be successful in the game industry. An intensive two-day seminar for composers, sound designers and audio professionals, teaching the unique creative, technical and business challenges essential to work in the game music and game sound industry. … [Read more...]
Sound Design Essentials: Websites
Everything have a start point. Here is the first part of a series of essential resources, sites, tutorials, and tools related with this funny thing called sound design. I begin with 30 websites for learning sound design for games, film and interactive media. General purpose KVR Audio - The Internet's number one news and information resource for open standard audio plug-ins. … [Read more...]
"Star Trek" – Exclusive Interview with Supervising Sound Editor Mark Stoeckinger
On May 8th J.J. Abrams boldly went where 10 men have gone before by directing a Star Trek film. In his reboot of the waning franchise, Abrams re-recruited a lot of sound folk he used on his past feature efforts. "Star Trek" dubbed at Fox Studios crediting four re-recording mixers with their services, Paul Massey and Andy Nelson on dialog/music with Dave Giammarco and Anna … [Read more...]
Crank 2: Hight Voltage – Exclusive Interview with Production Mixer Robert Sharman
What do a grip of prosumer HD cameras, a high voltage film star, and a greenlight to follow up a successful action film have in common? They all converged to produce, “Crank 2: High Voltage” which quickened audience's heart rate's April 17th. Re-recording mixers Joe Dzuban and Bob Beemer set up shop at Todd-AO's Hollywood local while Sounddelux's Scott Martin Gershin served as … [Read more...]
"Observe and Report" – Exclusive Interview with Composer Joseph Stephens
Giving audiences a peek at the day-to-day of Mall Cop Ronnie Barnhardt, "Observe and Report" opened in theaters April 10th. Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer Terry Rodman brought along re-recording mixer Steve Pederson for an old-fashioned mixing stake out on dub 12 at the WB lot. The newly redesigned stage is put through a "normal morning" of prep, HERE. Production sound … [Read more...]
"Monsters vs. Aliens" – Exclusive Interview with Sound Supervisor Erik Aadahl
"Monster's vs. Aliens" went to war in theaters March 27th. Though, on screen Dreamworks Animation introduced audiences to a new cast of characters, behind the scenes boasted a familiar band of sound craftsmen. Following their work on last year's "Kung Fu Panda", re-recording mixers and Dreamworks Animation darlings Andy Nelson and Anna Behlmer once again rolled their chairs up … [Read more...]