Your time is greatly appreciated if you could answer this super-fast question for me to help me dislodge my design block I have right now: What are the first 2 sounds you think of …

Hi all Any chance that you can spare 5 or 10 mins to answer this survey?? It will be a great help for my current BSc Music Tech project. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HTD3L6Q A …

I live in Chicago, and lately I've been doing a fair amount of ambience recording in the various neighborhoods and downtown. So many city ambiences on SFX CDs sound like Manhattan …

I know quite a few studio recording engineers who wanted to be musicians and "fell into" the job. When I was about 15 I went to a school rock concert and was fascinated by all of …

Hi guys, I'm currently studying my Masters in Sound for the Moving Image at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. I'm doing a research paper into the commercialization of ambis …

I am interested in sounds and how they relate to our memories and I'd like to know: 1.) What are some of your favourite sounds? 2.) What are some sounds that you relate strongly w …

Update (8/15/10): the first challenge is up. UPDATE (8/7/10): It seems like Vimeo and SoundCloud are a general consensus, which doesn't surprise me at all. I've posted a bunch of …

I have a number of headphones that I use for different purposes: The obligatory Sony MDR7506s: Love these, they're like the NS-10Ms of headphones. I use them for as much as possi …

How important is musical training to a sound designer? What, if any, instruments do you play, and has this affected the way you 'compose' a design? I play the cello and piano,now …

In order of importance please list A, B, C, D below starting with the most important to you: When you are considering a job, what are the most important aspects to you: A) The pe …

Personal question time - which will actually seriously help me with a project. Can you describe in as much detail as is relevant what is, to you, a beautiful calming space. For me …

Hey folks. This is now the sixth month of the Sound Design Challenge I've been running. I've mentioned before that I'm always open to suggestions and interesting ideas. So, what ar …

Circulate a survey of different sounds and ask people to bounce their reactions onto the paper! Does anybody want to collaborate on this? Send it to some publication or does anyb …

And I'm not talking about sounds that hold some special memory, or that evoke a certain sensation. I go through little phases every now and then where I want to explore a particula …

I'm just curious to see how many sound designers here are colorblind. I am red/green colorblind, and over the years I have met quite a few sound designers and musicians that are al …