Guest Contribution by René Coronado I’m very proud to announce the launch of the new sister site to echo | collective - echo | collective: fields! The fields project will take me out of the comfortable confines of the studio and have me in the real world gathering ambiences and other sounds in high res surround. We launched with three libraries: pro hockey … [Read more...]
Tonebenders Ep.11 – Big Gun Design Case Study
Episode 11 starts with the hosts answering a backlog of listener questions, including inquiries on recording fire, large file transfers and more. Then we try something new as Rene builds a huge laser cannon blast on the fly while the creative process behind a sound effects is explored. Plus, we announce the first Tonebenders homework assignment... Check the podcast at … [Read more...]
Thanks to our January Contributors
We'd like to thank our guest contributors for January's plug-in features: Charles Maynes for sharing his genius matrix idea Frank Bry for exploring the colorations that transient shapers can offer Tom Todia for presenting a way to create lots of sound variants extremely quickly The Tonebenders (Timothy Muirhead, René Coronado and Dustin Camilleri) for sharing some of their … [Read more...]
Design Toolbox #2 – Kontakt
For this second post of the Design Toolbox series, I thought it would be nice to explore a sampler and it's application in sound design. Kontakt has been around for a long time and is widely used by musicians, and lately amongst more sound designers too. I haven't used it since version 2 (years ago), and my MIDI editing skills in Pro Tools are not the best. I thought it would … [Read more...]
Echo | Collective, New Independent Library Focused on Uncommon Sounds
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/31662413[/vimeo] Echo | Collective is a new independent sfx library created by sound designer Rene Coronado and composer Brad Dale, from Dallas Audio Post Group. Their focus is on uncommon sounds. Found instruments and tools that can be manipulated and recontextualized sonically into a film or music project. The project starts operations with five … [Read more...]
The Uptown Trolley Sound Library
I had been considering something like this, but Rene Coronado beat me to the punch! He's opened up a Kickstarter page to fund the chartering of an antique trolley...of course, he's going to plant it with mics in places the transit authority don't even know exist. The project page was launched today, and has already reached it's goal. That doesn't mean you can't go add to the … [Read more...]
West Texas Gun Recording
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/23313309[/vimeo] René Coronado has recently published a fantastic three-part article on gun recording, including details on pre-production, reports of the sessions, how was the editing/tagging process and more. So a little while back I packed up the mics and headed out west to record some gunfire with my friends. Not because I had a project that … [Read more...]