Guest Contribution by Rodney Gates Greetings! Welcome, and thanks for checking out this (TL;DR) article on the creation of the virtual instrument sample library, GuitarMonics, designed for Native Instruments’ Kontakt software. It was a long road from concept to completion, and I thought it might be a good idea to discuss some of the processes and discoveries I learned along … [Read more...]
The Dialog Re-Assign Workflow
My first exposure to noise reduction processing was with Waves X-Noise, working clip-by-clip, finding a snippet of noise in the clear, setting the noise profile, then processing the clip before moving to the next one. This offline processing method, while effective, would end up taking a lot of time, especially on long-form projects. Similarly, if you had a processed clip that … [Read more...]
Combating Noise in Plug-in Chains
This article is going to be a little less template, and a little more workflow. We all have our favorite plug-ins. We probably also all have plug-ins we'd love to use, but run into limitations that keep us from pulling them out of the tool box. For instance, I have a couple of plug-ins from Waves that can add some really cool sonic character when I'm designing a sound, but also … [Read more...]
Separating Your Signal from the Noise: The Intersection Between Bit Depth and Branding
As a sound designer, there are many different thoughts that come to mind when considering a topic such as noise. Everything from using tone generated noise, like white noise in the designing of sound effects, to a technical discussion on different types of dither algorithms, but when I kept thinking about noise, one slightly different viewpoint of the word "noise" kept coming … [Read more...]
Review of Zynaptiq’s Reverb Reduction Processor – Unveil
Reverb reduction is kind of like the Holy Grail of audio processing. Many people, myself included, have had to rely exclusively on multiband expansion to do things like increase intelligibility of poorly recorded dialog, or to make a "must use" reverberant recordings sit better in the mix. Unveil isn't brand new to the market. It first came to my attention about a year ago. … [Read more...]
Izotope RX2 Tutorials for Post Production
Just doing some cross-posting from my website: I decided to put these two tutorials together to share some simple tricks that I use in Izotope RX2. They’re nothing overly complex, but they are kind of unique….and handy to boot. I just thought I’d share them and hope you find them useful. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33841688[/vimeo] The other video can be viewed in this post. … [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...]