Charles Maynes' post earlier this month reminded me of an idea I had but never bothered to actually test out...using dynamics processors as envelope generators. If you've ever listened to me rant at all in the last two and a half years I've been active in this online community, you've probably at some point heard me say, "Compressors don't make things louder, make up gain … [Read more...]
Design Toolbox #1 – Flangers
[This was originally posted a year ago and has been republished because it fits in with this month's theme - Varun] Inspired by Miguel's 'SFX Lab' series, I thought it would be nice to start a series on using conventional plugins to design sounds. With many of us primarily working off DAWs with a mouse pointer and plugin windows, there isn't much room for 'hands-on' … [Read more...]
Bruce Tanis Special: Using Default Audio Suite Plugins in Pro Tools
I gave up a quasi-staff position nearly a decade ago in order to pursue a career as a freelance sound effects editor. Certainly, there are positives and negatives to both of these paths but, at the time, I was being offered a one-film job at a different facility from the company where I'd been working for a few years. I had pretty much reached the highest plateau available to … [Read more...]