Welcome to the first of a series of posts dedicated to explore the whole Sound Design Suite of Waves. Apart of my own review, I'll also include anecdotes, opinions, tips and tricks from professional sound designers that use these plugins everyday. Today I'm going to talk about several tools designed for dynamics and frequency control, including the following: L1, L2, L3 and … [Read more...]
New Sound Design Competition from Waves Audio and Designing Sound
I'm excited to announce a new sound design competition, developed in collaboration between Waves Audio and Designing Sound, with a Sound Design Suite Native (or a different Waves bundle or upgrade of equivalent value) as the prize for the winner. General Information Download the competition package that includes a clip from Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed™ (courtesy of … [Read more...]
Frank Bry Special: Sound Effects Transformation: From This to That
[Written by Frank Bry for Designing Sound] I don't often have time to mess around with the sounds I record. Between recording new sound effects and game sound design, I am just tapped out as far as time is concerned. The remainder of my available time involves cataloging new assets, editing metadata, or editing sounds for a new release. Every now and then I will wander off … [Read more...]
Waves Releases Sound Design Suite, Plus New Interviews with Charles Deenen and Scott Martin Gershin
Waves Audio has released the Sound Design Suite, a new bundle packed with 30 plugins oriented to sound design tasks. It was developed in collaboration with Charles Deenen and Scott Martin Gershin. With over 30 plugins hand-picked especially for sound designers and post production facilities, the Waves Sound Design Suite is a comprehensive and cost-effective collection of audio … [Read more...]
Sonnenschein's Webinar Report: Week II – Plugin Power
As I promised the last week, I'll be doing a weekly report of the Sound Design Webinar Series by David Sonnenschein, just to give you an idea of what is David doing on each webinar and solve any kind of doubts you have about that. In the second webinar David started reviewing some of the assignments given in the last session, and also giving more tips and great theories. For … [Read more...]
Bruce Tanis Special: Reader Questions
Sadly, the Bruce Tanis special has come to its end. This month was amazing, with a really great amount of sound effects editing master classes given by Bruce. Here are the answers to the questions made by the readers during this month. Hope you like them! Designing Sound Reader: As a student/future sound editor, I've been anxious about the fact that there is no prescribed … [Read more...]
The Sound Design of "Coraline"
Steinberg has published an interview with Steve Tushar and Ron Eng, sound designers on "Coraline". They talk about their work in the film and also the use of Nuendo for their sound work. Hello Steve, hello Ron! You’ve recently worked together on the film Coraline, which was directed by Henry Selick. What was special about the collaboration with him? Ron: The best thing about … [Read more...]