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Inspiration - What influences your aesthetic

So, here's something I bat around with people every now and then...and I know several people on here have discussed this in other venues. Why not bring the conversation here and se …
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How Do You Hone Your Acoustic Storytelling Skills?

I think it's safe to assume that this crowd loves a good story. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that we're the ones who vocalize all the sounds and give voices to the characters when …
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A Study in Effective Sound Design: The Terminator (1984)

So I'm flipping channels and find The Terminator on AMC. And it was just starting! It's been a while since I've seen it in its entirety, so I decided to give it my full attention. …
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Inspiration from the world of music production

Hello sound friends. This is is another 'list your top' question. Today: Which music producers do you feel created unique and inspiring sound design and in so doing made the albu …
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Accidentally Mimicking the “Pros”: Healthy?

I learned pretty much all of my film sound design and mixing techniques by (at first) imitating what I heard on DVDs and in the theaters. I still find myself taking mental notes wh …
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How do you tackle time lapsed footage?

More action to articulate, less time to do it in. What's your approach to Slo-mo's evil twin? [youtube]coWd4YHVe14[/youtube] Pitched-up, time-compressed FX have gotten me through …
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Ever have one of those projects…

... that feels like it's never going to end or that it just can't be done. Then, when you finally finish... you realize you just totally crushed it and you hear angels singing Leo …
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Unmusical Items as Instruments in Music/Design

I wanted to ask everyone what their experience is with using household items, or really any other non-instrument to either layer in, or as itself, into music and sound design. For …
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Something’s missing…

Have any of you gotten to a point where you have spent a day on a scene and you listen down to it at the end of the night and there is just something missing and you don't know wha …
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You ever get that quitting feeling?

What do you do when you're on R25 and it STILL sounds harsh or unpleasant? I'm mixing and a particular voice still sounds harsh. I'm about to throw in the towel on this one. Wha …
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How do you go about making an underwater gooey sound?

There is probably a way to blend the two sounds together like morph a goo sound into a crawling sound so it sounds like crawling underwater in goo.