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What makes you think YOU’RE a sound designer?!

Although this thread has touched upon the topic, I would like to explore it further. Everybody and their brother credits themselves as a Sound Designer. But what have they done to …
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Do you make your own impulse responses?

I'm not referring to actual rooms, i'm talking more about weirdness. I've been trying to use Skanner XT in reaktor (i mean, it can be any synth for that matter) to make some custom …
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Picture editor- sound designer relationship/ workflow

I am a film editing student and I have never worked with a specialist sound designer before. I want to know about the relationship between a picture editor and a sound designer. In …
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Referring to Yourself as a “Sound Designer” When Starting Out

Hi All, A semantics question. I'm a couple of months and a large post-production project away from graduating from my film/sound program and trying to clean up my site/C.V./demo r …
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If you could tell your picture editor anything…

...what would it be? I'm doing a talk to the South African Guild of Editors. I have a good idea of what I want to talk about, but I can only speak from my context. Hearing from o …
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Artist or technician?

I find this question on some forum, so I am interested what do you think. Is Sound designer artist or technician? Some say it should be added Psychologist?
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Where are editors on the chain of command?

I have my opinion on when the sound of a film should fade in and the film editor has a different idea on it. The director is unavailable at the moment and I wanted to know your gu …