Just wondering if any of you have any tried and true techniques or suggestions for designing lava and/or volcano sounds (anything from volcanic eruption, flowing lava, molten volca …

Hello all! i'm not new to sound, but new to this site and i must say this place is a dream come true! amazing things on here! So my Q is a little long, but plz bare with me. als …

I was looking for any posts on waves S360 and R360 used together for room emulation and couldn't find anything... I'm using them on a feature right now and I'm really thrown off b …

This may be a noob question but when exporting clips out of Pro Tools, say with fades and what not, does anyone know if the sound card is engaged at all? The reason I ask is I hav …

hello! my boyfriend is graduating in a few weeks and will soon apply to a sound design program. i want to get him a basic starter kit with different tools he can use as he works o …

When I import an OMF into Pro Tools they enter as two mono tracks, panned left and right as opposed to one stereo track - any ideas as to why this is the case?

Hello, I've got a quick question that i wonder if someone could help me with. Now i'm fairly comfortable with most interface/menu/hud sounds, however there is one in particular th …

It's spring here and the birds are singing - but sometimes you just don't want them in your recordings ... so my question to you is what are your tricks for getting rid of those bi …

Any suggestions on how to achieve an "Anonymous Vocal Disguise" Effect? Along the lines of: "Ransom Phone Calls" or "Anonymous TV Interviewee". I haven't started to experiment yet …

Hi all, Just wondered if anyone knew of a simple bit of software that can add an audio 'watermark' ident onto an audio file easily, for OSX? Something that I can mix to a certain …

So, this isn't news, but ProTools keeping the door welded shut on 3rd party controllers which haven't kissed the ring is .. frustrating. After spending a week experimenting with c …

So I just started work on a 23.976fps project that has some scenes that were accidentally shot in 24fps (of course, these scenes are sprinkled throughout every reel...). Sound was …

The short is about a coach who's trying to teach his players how to play baseball. All of the players are wearing vans in the scenes and the surfaces range from the dirt on a baseb …

Hey Guys, So I've recorded some ADR, (I wasn't able to do it outdoors at the time) and now I need it to sound outdoors. In the past I've ran the signal through a speaker outside ( …

Hi, my friends. let me explain my problem (please do not pay atention in my english, i don't speak very well) i'm a dj and starting to produce house music, but, the videos or the …

Hi, What is the main purpose of recording an impulse response? Is it just to have an idea of the kind of reflections of the room you're recording on? When to do it in a producti …

hi, i'm looking for a low noise HQ setup which i can use in the field. i'd prefer omni mics like he mkh8020, but am distracted by the usual setup, i.e. a tripod, mic clamps, rycote …

I'm working on a film that takes place on a passenger jet that is modified to fly at high altitudes. black ops kind of thing. in the script, the pilot fights off a cockpit invasion …

Hello I started with music about 4 years ago and then took it more seriously. I started to learn music theory, i play guitar and started reading some books about sound synthesis, d …

Back when I'm still studying in high school I remembered I have this very weird problem, but have no one to turn to at that time. I played music games on my computer a lot. One day …

In your normal work routine as a sound engineer is there anything to look out for? I began to fear about my hearing ability. I don't even know that right now am I hearing the same …

At least for me it was first introduced in the Transformer movies, but it has now found its way also into game titles such as Mass Effect series and Injustice. Now I know this ques …

I'm trying to figure out a better workflow for designing more complex effects with multiple layers of heavily-processed sounds. So far I've just been using AudioSuite for processin …

Hi all, I've been lurking for a while and have seen similar questions but not exactly the feedback I'm hoping to solicit. I'm transitioning over to the world of audio for film and …

I want to ask to see when people feel its an appropriate time to record room tone on set. I typically wait until the end of the day to get all of my room tone recordings, even if I …

I'm wondering if anyone has any simple methods for convolving two audio files? This used to be very simple with Audition 3.0, but they have removed the feature in CS6 (very happy …

There is a short film I'm working on that has a 6 year-old child in a forest that's supposed to sound a little magical (not extremely magical, but the amount of magic you thought f …

I do audiobook editing for a local library. I am using sound forge currently. Are there any recommendations for other editors? I get a lot of pops and lip smacking. It seems to tak …

I need to convert a normal voice to a more interesting sounding high tech Science Fiction computer voice. I suppose there are dedicated tools for this task that go beyond a simple …

I've come upon my second project for which I need a somewhat hyper-real popcorn popping sound and I would like to improve on my previous attempt. The closest I could get was pitch …

i have no sound card, it is posibal proper installation with out sound card for windowes 7. plz reply me asap. thanks Nitin

Outshone some of the acting in my opinion... Drone sounds were so powerful, functional, also had such an air of menace... Brilliant work. Anywhere I can read about this? Kind of …

Hello, I am experiencing some issues with my Avantone CK-1. Whenever I connect it for the first time in the session it gets a static noise that doesn't disappear until I unscrew …

So I just picked up a record at my local record shop called "Environments." It was recorded by field recordist Irving Solomon Teible. I came to find out that this was a whole serie …

hello, i am considering shifting my career path towards working in acoustics. in particular architectural acoustics, environmental acoustics and noise control. however, my academ …

Hi, I have recently prototyped a sound spatialisation tool using max/msp as part of a university project. It allows you to load a sound and animate it in a virtual 3d space to add …

Hi community, I'm doing the audio post for a short film. It's a graduation film project. I want to record a TV set while a soap opera is broadcasted to use it as background sound …

I learned that in computer there is a limit of amplitude that you can store of a sample. (0 dB) If you boost the sound past that point then clipping occurs. In my game I have 1 BG …

Hello, Does anyone have experience here? I know that i can connect to the nagra with a bannana to 1/4 adapter...but will the quality suffer?

Hello everyone, I am a soon to be graduate from BA Film. For my final year I have decided to work as a sound designer (my second year I did this as I have a musical background an …

This question has been asked in various forms but not yet completely in my view. I'm trying to find a good mastering chain for a sound effects library using say Waves plugins in p …

I must have got some concept of how computer audio pipeline works WRONG for sure, so please point me out! I'm not an audio enginner but I'm trying to balance sounds for my game. T …

Hello, I need to make a sound for the 'intro' of various characters. I posted a link to 'The Snatch' where there is no sound (just music) but explains well the kind of reference …

Hey guys (and gals!), My first 'straight to DVD' mix is approaching and thought I'd do some research on the delivery spec for DVD. Because it's not for a broadcaster, and there is …

I'm working on a suite of around 25 interface sounds for a Facebook game, and wondering what kind of level to bounce the sounds out. There is no musical or ambient bed to mix the s …

I watch a lot of tv series and, sometimes, I focus on their sound design. I have to say that GoT have some great stuff! At the beginning I didn't liked the baby dragons voices, but …

Just joined this site, so thought I'd give my first question - which I'll try and keep short! I've done Sound Design in theatre for a few years now and am looking to working in fi …

Hi, a lot of debate on plug ins / software for sound design. But what hardware does everyone love, for creating sounds - tearing recorded sounds apart - manipulating etc. Thanks …

Anyone know of a current library that caters to more smartphone tones? In a pinch and wish I had the time to work up my own. Thanks!

Not interested in switchcraft or bittree (nice but out of budget) Looking for soem advice and suggestions on lower end market bays - specifically from those with experience with t …