Looking for some good sound-centric reading this summer? Paul Virostek of Creative Field Recording has collected a number of must-read lists, reviews, and resources on some of the best books focused on creative recording and sound design in a recent blog post. Included in Paul's list are some of Designing Sound's own recommendations, found here and here, but be sure to check … [Read more...]
Open AIR Library
The Open Acoustic Impulse Response (Open AIR) Library is an amazing resource for sound designers to share acoustical data, and most of the content on this site is released under Creative Commons licenses. … [Read more...]
Box of Toys, New Website Dedicated Explore Canada’s Post Production Audio Industry
Niall Collins and John-Paul Borchardt have recently launched Box of Toys, a new blog dedicated to explore the audio post industry on Canada, but also sharing a useful news, videos, articles, and all kind of general content. Box of Toys is a platform to broadcast new, exciting and nerdy audio related news to you, the surfer! From video interviews with today’s top Canadian post … [Read more...]
Jedsound Twisted SFX, Free Collection of Sound Effects by Jean-Edouard Miclot
Twisted Tools, makers of awesome Reaktor ensembles and crazy sound packs, have released Jedsound - Twisted FX, a free collection of very unique samples recorded and created by sound designer Jean-Edouard Miclot. We are excited to offer an amazing new collection of sounds by sound designer Jean-Edouard Miclot. It isn’t everday you can get your hands on unique and properly … [Read more...]
Game Audio Rewind: 2010
Damian Kastbauer, writer of the audio implementation greats series has published an insane list of game audio links that he collected during the past year. Lots of very informative articles! Now that 2010 is closed out, I just wanted to take a second and round up a batch of links to various projects that I was involved with and get them all lumped into a 'splosion of game … [Read more...]
Field Recording Blogs, Daily Recipes of Sound in the "World Wide Web"
Some days ago I was thinking about make this post, and due to the great material that is being generated in the last days, I decided to do so. The Internet has changed the way we do a lot of things, and also provides a vast amount of information everyday. Sound designers and recordist also found a way to share his experiences and recording using blogs and social … [Read more...]
New Book: "Sound for Film and Television, Third Edition" by Tomlinson Holman
Focal Press has released the third edition of the book "Sound for Film and Television" written by Tomlinson Holman, amazing audio engineer and theorist, developer of THX system and the first 10.2 system. The book is great read to people interested in sound for visual media, both in a theoretical and technical way. As Holman said: "The only text to present sound design as both … [Read more...]