Ben Affleck stayed firmly planted in Boston area after his freshman directorial effort, "Gone Baby Gone". This time adapting author Chuck Hogan’s book "Prince of Thieves" about bank robbers in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown with "The Town". Sound supervisors Aaron Glascock and Curt Schulkey answer some questions about their time on the film below. (Designing Sound) … [Read more...]
Making Sci-Fi Weapons with Fireworks Library [Review + Demo]
It's time for another review and demo of a HISS and ROAR library. Now is the turn for an amazing library: Fireworks, recorded by Tim Prebble with other three recordists. The Library The library includes several kinds of fireworks and different performances for each one. Also, they recorded the library in multi-channel 192kHz WAV format, so you can find several takes from each … [Read more...]
Soundscalpel's Interviews with Ric Viers and JR Fountain
The guys at Soundscalpel have published two interviews on their articles section, one with Ric Viers (The Sound Effects Bible, Blastwave FX, The Detroit Chop Shop) and other with JR Fountain (Big Room Sound). Some sounds must be very difficult to record/create. Are there any particular sound effects you have had to make that stand out as problematic and what was involved in … [Read more...]
David Farmer Special: Field Recording Videos
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHI0-oA9UKg[/youtube] David Farmer has published more than 20 videos taken from his field recording sessions. You'll find a very good dose of inspiration. From worldizing, to ambience recording, fails, accidents and more. It's great! Feel free to go to David Farmer's YouTube Channel and have fun! … [Read more...]
Ultimate Snow, New SFX Library from The Recordist
Frank Bry has released a new sound effects library called Ultimate Snow, which includes 300 different snow recordings at 96kHz/24-Bit. The Ultimate Snow Sound Effects Library contains 300 of my best snow sounds recorded at 24-Bit 96kHz over the last 4 years during some of the most frigid and snow-packed North Idaho winters I have ever seen. Included are snowball impacts, large … [Read more...]
Associations
"It’s all about the emotional associations of sounds. It’s not about whether they’re really technically correct or not. It’s about whether they’re scary or relaxing or threatening or whatever helps tell the story." - Dane A. Davis … [Read more...]
Having Fun with Ultimate SFX Libraries by The Recordist [Review & Video]
As you have seen, I love to support independent libraries. Why? Simply because the guys behind those projects are good friends making amazing stuff, putting their soul and heart on each release. Now the turn is for The Recordist, a sound effects company founded by sound designer/recordist Frank Bry. There, he releases all kind of sound effects in downloadable packages, … [Read more...]