(Picture Credit: Mindful Audio) If you are releasing a new SFX library and you would like it to be included in our recap, send us the details with our SFX Independence Submission Form. Please only notify us of libraries that were released within the last month or substantially updated. This month's SFX recap features a broad range of new and also … [Read more...]
New SFX Libraries: May Recap
If you are releasing a new SFX library and you would like it to be included in our recap, send us the details with our SFX Independence Submission Form. Please only notify us of libraries that were released within the last month or substantially updated. There was a record number of submissions last month with 21 new libraries, and two of them are free! So if … [Read more...]
Pushing the Boundary – Your Stories: SFX Creators, Part 1
If you are a sound effects or synth creator who has submitted a library to the Designing Sound monthly recaps and you would like to contribute to this series (and for some you haven't received the questionnaire -- check your spam folder), please email adriane@designingsound.org. The deadline is 14 June. When creating sound effects, how have you pushed the … [Read more...]
New SFX Libraries: March Recap
If you are releasing a new SFX library and you would like it to be included in our recap, send us the details through our SFX Independence Submission Form. However, please notify us of libraries that were released within the last month or substantially updated, since we will not include old libraries that are on sale. Last month, we had the most submissions I've seen since … [Read more...]
New SFX Libraries: February Recap
If you are releasing a new SFX library and you would like it to be included in our recap, send us the details through our SFX Independence Submission Form. https://designingsound.org/contact-2/sfx-independence-submission As many of us travel to San Francisco for GDC this week, some of our fellow sound designers won't be able treat it as a vacation with assets to create and … [Read more...]
New SFX Libraries: December Recap
If you are releasing a new SFX library and you would like it to be included in our recap, please send us the details through our SFX Independence Submission Form. Now excuse me as I mourn Alan Rickman. I know I’ve let half the month go by again without the recap, but - what can I say? - buying a new house means a lot of moving and planning and building and raking and … [Read more...]
News: How to Create Horror Sound Effects
In an appropriately seasonal blog post over at A Sound Effect, Asbjoern speaks to Saro Sahihi of SoundBits, a boutique SFX library and sound design company. Saro, who has released some excellent gore SFX libraries, goes in-depth on how to achieve some truly squishy, wrenching, and disgusting gore sounds for all your horror needs. He even touches on some other horror mainstays, … [Read more...]