It's February 1st. That means it's a new month with a new featured topic. This time around, we'll be digging into the subject of loudness metering. When we refer to "loudness" we're talking about those specific documents you've been hearing more and more about over the last few years: ITU-R BS.1770, EBU-R128, and ATSC-RP A/85. Whether you know what all of that means or not, … [Read more...]
Thanks to our January Contributors
We'd like to thank our guest contributors for January's plug-in features: Charles Maynes for sharing his genius matrix idea Frank Bry for exploring the colorations that transient shapers can offer Tom Todia for presenting a way to create lots of sound variants extremely quickly The Tonebenders (Timothy Muirhead, René Coronado and Dustin Camilleri) for sharing some of their … [Read more...]
I Love Plug-ins!
Guest Contribution by Tom Todia I love Plug-Ins! There, I feel much better now. Since January is the month of the plug-in here at Designing Sound, I thought this was a great opportunity to share one of my new favorites with you. This plug-in does exactly what its name states but it has a twist that I absolutely love. If you have not yet used it then allow me to introduce … [Read more...]
Dynamics Processors = Envelope Generators
Charles Maynes' post earlier this month reminded me of an idea I had but never bothered to actually test out...using dynamics processors as envelope generators. If you've ever listened to me rant at all in the last two and a half years I've been active in this online community, you've probably at some point heard me say, "Compressors don't make things louder, make up gain … [Read more...]
Pausing Modulation in Enigma
I thought a quick video would be the more efficient way to present this one. [youtube]http://youtu.be/OJB7yDpoFAE[/youtube] … [Read more...]
A Plug-in Vector Matrix
Guest Contribution by Charles Maynes The best things in life are sort of free... Peter Gabriel once described his creative process as being an “X” and ”Y” sort of thinking- Basically trying to segregate his “artistic” thinking from his “technical” thinking. In this DAW universe we live in, we seem to be constantly flipping modes...and often times we want to be able to … [Read more...]
2013 Kicks Off with Plug-in Month
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...]