Welcome to the first of a series of posts dedicated to explore the whole Sound Design Suite of Waves. Apart of my own review, I'll also include anecdotes, opinions, tips and tricks from professional sound designers that use these plugins everyday. Today I'm going to talk about several tools designed for dynamics and frequency control, including the following: L1, L2, L3 and … [Read more...]
The Recordist Releases “Ultimate Wood” SFX Library, Q&A Included
The Recordist has released another of his great "Ultimate" collections. We've seen ice, rocks, splashes, snow, mud and more. Now the turn is for Wood! Presenting the Ultimate Wood Sound Effects Library. This massive collection of 500 wood based sound effects recorded at 24-Bit 96kHz includes: gigantic trees falling, tree bark cracks, sheets of plywood ripped apart, heavy beams … [Read more...]
New Sound Design Competition from Waves Audio and Designing Sound
I'm excited to announce a new sound design competition, developed in collaboration between Waves Audio and Designing Sound, with a Sound Design Suite Native (or a different Waves bundle or upgrade of equivalent value) as the prize for the winner. General Information Download the competition package that includes a clip from Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed™ (courtesy of … [Read more...]
“Secrets for Great Film Sound” Webinar Report #2 – Production
[During this month, I'll be doing weekly reports about “Secret for Great Film Sound“, a new webinar series hosted by David Sonnenschein and Ric Viers.] Last week's webinar was fantastic. This time, Ric and David talked a lot about production stage. Ric is an expert on recording no matter if it's in the field, in the studio or on location. He explained a lot of interesting … [Read more...]
Tim Walston Special: Reader Questions
Here are the answers to the questions you made to Tim Walston during january. And stay tuned because there's one more article coming from Tim about his work on Star Trek. Designing Sound Reader: Hey Tim. Thanks for the inspiring articles! I can see you often work as editor and designer, but I'm curious about how much mixer are you? Do you think is important for an editor to … [Read more...]
Tim Walston Special: Let’s JET: Sound Design for “Stealth” (2005) and “Astro Boy” (2009)
[Written by Tim Walston for Designing Sound] Disclaimer: I am writing these articles as an independent sound designer. Any views or opinions expressed here are simply my own, and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of any company, corporate entity or anyone else. Any images or sounds presented are subject to copyright by their respective owners, and are … [Read more...]
[Review + Demo] Rabbit Ears Audio – Hydrophonic
In the past year, Rabbit Ears Audio released Hydrophonic, a new sound effects library loaded with a wide variety of underwater recordings. I just finished a new video where I worked a lot with this library, so I'd like to give you my opinions about it. As Michael Raphael (owner of REA) explains in this fantastic article on Sonic Terrain, he spent a lot of time to develop this … [Read more...]