[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/37325263[/vimeo] Pretty cool blog post by Frank Bry on recording bullet passbys and impacts. There is a first time for everything and recording bullet pass bys and impacts was a first for me. I’ve always wanted to try my hand at bullet recording but never had the knowledge or association with anyone that had a permit to use a gun suppressor. During the … [Read more...]
Bottle Rocket FX Releases Impact Collection
Bottle Rocket FX has released Impact Collection. The Impact Collection is a library of 304 impacts, whooshes, swells, static, rises and zaps all designed with Trailers and Promos in mind. These sounds were designed using anything I could hit, bang, rumble and smash. In the process I destroyed a couple tools and put a healthy dent in a spare refrigerator, not to mention the … [Read more...]
Cinematic Trailers, New Library of BOOM Available for Pre-order (Save 25%)
BOOM Library has published details for their upcoming library called Cinematic Trailers, a huge collection of sources and designed sounds of whooshes, stingers, impacts, rises, and more, all of them delivered at 96kHz/24-Bit with Soundminer metadata. As usual in BOOM, there are two packages available: [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/15074712"] Construction … [Read more...]
Building Sounds with "Cinematic Metal" by BOOM Library [Review+Demo]
Some time ago, the guys at Dynamedion Sound Design Team launched his own independent sound effects company, called BOOM Library and also released Cinematic Metal, his first collection of sound effects, wich I'll review below. The package is divided into several parts (max 1,9GB each one). Everything downloaded fast and decompressed without problems. They have a really cool way … [Read more...]
Tutorial: Making Impact Sound Effects, by Jim Stout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMgovfQjxUA The Jim Stout special was two months ago, right. But it doesn't stops the Jim's interest for sharing his knowledge and techniques with Designing Sound readers, so here is a new exclusive video tutorial, this time on making impact sound effects. … [Read more...]
Boom Library, a New SFX Company from Dynamedion Sound Team
Sound Designer Axel Rohrbach sent to me some information about his new SFX Label called BOOM Library and created with his partners at Dynamedion Sound Design & Music Company. They are releasing the first title of the library, called Cinematic Metal. This is what Axel said: The concept is to provide creative sound designers source material to work with (called a Construction … [Read more...]
Charles Maynes Special: Gun Recording Thoughts for 2010
I hope you folks found some of my experiences entertaining, and more so helpful in your problem solving, so in the spirit of such fellowship I wanted to share some thoughts and experiences in my recording weapons and explosions for Films and Games. Chuck Russom, whom I consider a great sound designer, already spent some time discussing many of the logistical and creative … [Read more...]