You can watch today's webinar here on Designing Sound, or...if you'd like to ask questions...you can join us over on Google Hangouts to participate more directly. If you'd like to ask some follow up questions, please reach out to us through our contact page, ping me on twitter or drop a comment below. Additional media used during the presentation after the break. … [Read more...]
It’s All in Your Head…
Have you ever stopped to consider the fact that all of the sounds we hear in our life are actually the result of post-processing in our brains? That what you hear might not actually be what the person next to you hears? The combination and coordination of organs that goes into the interpretation of fluctuations in atmospheric pressure is truly a marvel. We've given ourselves a … [Read more...]
New Research Initiative Will Dig Deep Into All Things Reverb
A project funded by the EU is taking on the challenge of modelling, synthesizing and analysing acoustic reverberation. The DREAMS (Dereverberation, Reverberation of Audio, Music and Speech) project began in February 2013 and is expected to run for three years. The research initiative is being led by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), and will focus on four areas seen … [Read more...]
Panning Reverb Returns
Guest contribution by By Douglas Murray OK, here is the ugly truth for film post, or really any surround sound work… Most reverb plug-ins do not sound natural for applications using greater than 1 or 2 speakers. What you don’t want: a reverb that jumps to completely different speakers from the source. What you do want: a reverb that spreads out from the sound and helps localize … [Read more...]
Psychoacoustics: Faking the Space
When building the space that sounds occupy, it may sometimes seem like overkill to load up those DSP hungry (though wonderful) reverb plug-ins. They can be a pretty big load when it comes to even the mildest amount of spatialization, and it can also be time consuming to configure one to emulate an outdoor space. I thought it would be worth sharing a trick of mine for both … [Read more...]
David Sonnenschein Special: Sound Spheres Pt. 2
Following up on David's previous post, the excerpt from his Sound Sphere article, he and I had a conversation over the phone to go into a little more detail. Here's the full transcript. David Sonnenschein: So, I know you read the excerpt that was posted for Designing Sound, but have you read the whole article as well? [ed. full article appears in "The New Soundtrack" volume 1, … [Read more...]
David Sonnenschein Special: Sound Spheres
David has offered up an excerpt of his article, "Sound Spheres: A Model of Psychoacoustic Space in Cinema," to our little community. The full article appears in the Volume 1.1 of The New Soundtrack, available through Edinburgh University Press (an excellent journal that I highly recommend). David and I will be having a phone discussion on Friday about this new model of his, to … [Read more...]