Happy New Year from all of us here at Designing Sound! This month is going to be devoted to a lighter, slightly braoder topic of discussion...Plug-ins. This won't be an open-ended, catch-all, "any and every" discussion, though. We'll be focusing on the novel, weird and wacky side of these tools we all use in sound design. Plug-ins that create strange, esoteric and exotic … [Read more...]
Welcome to Reverb Month
Sound occupies space. Actually, sound is a wave (or set of waves) that travels through a medium. So, it's not so much that it occupies a space, but is trapped within it. Sound interacts with that space, fills it, bounces around inside it and, if it causes enough vibrations, can bleed out into adjacent spaces. The interaction between sound and the space it occupies can tell us a … [Read more...]
And November’s Theme Is…
Welcome to Ambiences month here on Designing Sound. Often referred to as Atmospheres or Backgrounds as well, this element of a program mix deserves more attention than it commonly receives. Though not as present as dialog or hard-synced sound effects, their contribution to the tone "in-the-moment" narrative is no less important. Look for the first featured article in a few … [Read more...]
Changes to the Site
We (the editors) sat down recently to talk about the site…how it's been over the past few months, what its strengths are, where it's weak, and what we need to do keep the site at its full potential. So, we're going to be rolling out some changes, and I want to give you an idea of where we're going…because this is, first and foremost, a community site. First, allow me to … [Read more...]
Sounddogs.com Launches New Site
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/26036513[/vimeo] The new site of Sounddogs.com is now live: soundeffects.sounddogs.com features a large waveform viewer and audio player that enhances the previewing of sounds before purchase. Individual channels may be selected, this is especially good for polyphonic sound recordings of guns or on-board cars, tanks and airplanes. In layman’s terms … [Read more...]
First Anniversary of Designing Sound!
Once year ago I decided to start this adventure called Designing Sound. You can see the archives starting from 2007, but that's because Designing Sound was merged with Filmsound Daily a few months ago. I started with a simple idea of a site where I can share info about sound design, and now, I see the amount of content generated by the site and the lot of time I spent on it … [Read more...]