The first online school for learning how to create professional audio for video games has just announced that it is accepting applications for its first course from July to August 2012. The application deadline of Friday June 29, 2012 is rapidly approaching and is limited to ten students, so make sure to have a look at the details on their application page … [Read more...]
Izotope RX2 Tutorials for Post Production
Just doing some cross-posting from my website: I decided to put these two tutorials together to share some simple tricks that I use in Izotope RX2. They’re nothing overly complex, but they are kind of unique….and handy to boot. I just thought I’d share them and hope you find them useful. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33841688[/vimeo] The other video can be viewed in this post. … [Read more...]
SoundWizardry – Sound for Heroes of Newerth
It's great when you come across someone who is open enough to post a step-by-step brain dump of their sound design process, and especially welcomed when the audio comes married to video pulled directly from a game you can all run off and play. After digging through his spell book of secrets, it's clear that Glenn Goa (@SoundWizard) has got the sound design bug and a deep urge … [Read more...]
SFX Lab #2: Wind
[SFX Lab, the laboratory of sound effects, a place dedicated to experiment and explore sound effects libraries. The main goal is to hear what happens when sounds of a specific kind are combined, processed, and transformed in several ways.] Wind is such a great sound to work with. It's soft, it's versatile, it can sound very musical, or very noisy and aggressive, if you want. … [Read more...]
Tutorials: Dialogue Editing, Pro Tools Editing Bootcamp
Some great tutorials I've found recently. Dialogue Editing by John Purcell (via sonicskepsi) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d5XIzKlWFk[/youtube] Other parts here. Pro Tools Editing Bootcamp (4-part series) by Brent Heber [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29590577[/vimeo] Part 2 | 3 | 4 … [Read more...]
New FMOD Tutorials Available
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhFPoxo-N_g[/youtube] Firelight Technologies has been uploading new tutorials created by sound designer Stephan Schutze. Topics include multri-track events, interactive music, platform settings, car recording and more. More videos at FMOD TV. Thanks to Wit for the link. … [Read more...]
BOOM Library Releases Cinematic Trailers, Plus Tutorials, Special Offers
BOOM Library has released Cinematic Trailers, a huge package with over 2000 sound effects, including all kind of whooshes, impacts, rises, stingers, and more. As usual, BOOM offers two different packs: Construction kit: This huge 2 DVD collection contains unique recordings of all sorts movement, impact and rising sounds. We recorded a live orchestra for rises, had a big … [Read more...]