Filmmaker Andreas Pasvantis has sent me a very cool short film he did about the sound design of the new feature film of Johan Kramer called Johan Primero. In the video you can see Sound Supervisor Marcel Walvisch at FC Walvisch explaining how they made the sound for the film, specially the cool recording of a Citroen 2CV into the studio. Johan Primero | Andreas Pasvantis … [Read more...]
Jim Stout Special: Making Mechanical Sound Effects
Jim Stout recording and processing mechanical sounds. … [Read more...]
Audio Director Kristofor Mellroth on The Sound of "Crackdown 2"
Joystiq has published a very cool interview with Kristofor Mellroth, Audio Director of Crackdown 2. In the first game, I actually did all of the explosions, weapons, and then my teams here did all the physics stuff. And one thing that I knew I wanted to improve on this one was the fidelity and the punch. We had a very specific sound last time, and the way you would normally … [Read more...]
Rocks, New SFX Library by Chuck Russom
Chuck Russom has released a new SFX library called Rocks, recorded in the California desert and featuring 388 sounds of cement, bricks, cinderblocks, marble, and rocks of various sizes and performances such as impacts, smashes, drops, and debris. All sounds were recorded and mastered at 24bit 192K. Also included are 24bit 96K versions. Rocks is a downloadable collection of wav … [Read more...]
Jim Stout Special: Making Atmosphere Sounds
Jim Stout is back with another video tutorial, showing how to make atmospheric/wind style effects with synths and processing. Tools: Neko | Sylenth 1 | Reaktor … [Read more...]
Jim Stout Special: Making a Scary Voice Effect
Here is a new video tutorial created by Jim Stout. This time Jim is showing how to make a Poltergeist style scary voice effect using Logic (you can do the same process in any other DAW). … [Read more...]
Crowdsourcing a SFX Library, HISS and a ROAR is Looking for Recordists
Defined by Wikipedia, Crowdsourcing is "the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor to a large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call." That's the new and fantastic idea of talented Tim Prebble, owner of HISS and a ROAR. The idea consists in group 100 recordists, who would have to record 10 doors sounds (each one), … [Read more...]