Recently, game audio industry vet Jeremy Rogers launched a new SFX library store & blog at www.thesoundkeeper.com. While the blog is still new, he's already putting out some interesting articles, including his most recent "The Top 5 Must-Have Plugins for Sound Designers". Check it out for Jeremy's plugin recommendations, as well as some brief descriptions on how he uses … [Read more...]
News: A Sound Effect Podcast Ep. 2
Asbjoern of A Sound Effect and Christian of Hzandbits return this month with the second episode of their podcast. This time around, they're speaking to the people behind the BOOM Sound Effects libraries, which have exploded in popularity recently. You can find the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, and a number of other places and formats. Head over to the A Sound Effect page for the … [Read more...]
Sweet Justice: Sweetman’s Sweet Spot
In the most recent blog post over at Sweet Justice, sound designer Chris Sweetman shares some of his decades of experience, and discusses the importance of experimentation and the use of organic sounds in modern sound design. He also discusses some of his experiences on major films, as well as his approach to tools like Izotope Iris. Head over to their blog to check it out now! … [Read more...]
Pure Data Destruction
Guest Post by Leonard J. Paul Introduction To fit in with May's theme of “destruction” at DesigningSound.org, I wanted to create a patch that demonstrated how Pd (Pure Data) could be used to create interesting sounds of “digital destruction” with a fairly minimal amount of implementation. Hopefully this patch will be helpful for those wanting to learn a bit about Pd. Just to … [Read more...]
Actors of Sound, A Foley Art Documentary, now on Kickstarter
As many of our readers know, sound design is frequently overlooked when people start talking in-depth about media production. It's no surprise, then, that we here at Designing Sound get pretty excited when we find out someone is taking a closer look at an element of the craft. In that spirit, we wanted to bring your attention to a Kickstarter for Actors of Sound: A Foley Art … [Read more...]
An Underwater Recording Adventure at Boom Box Post
In a recent blog post over at Boom Box Post, company co-owner Kate Finan discusses here recent experiments -- and successes -- in using contact microphones for underwater recording. It's a great examination of some of the alternatives available for the (sometimes expensive) commercially available hydrophones on the market. … [Read more...]
DESTROY! …with Caution
I love building things. I spent a great deal of my childhood building all kinds of creations out of LEGO and K’NEX (and I still do). Of course, one of my favorite parts of the building process was the necessary destruction of the older things to make the new. Working with sound, especially taking apart the normal, everyday sounds to build new and interesting sounds, has always … [Read more...]