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Washington Post covers sound design in film:
There's a nice piece by Ann Hornaday with a video in today's Washington Post here.
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How To: Minimizing noise and reverb with DIY multi-band expansion.
(EDIT: Found out that I definitely didn't invent this. Heart breaks (celery snap + cold spaghetti sauce squish + the sound of a tiny, tiny violin))
Lately it seems that a lot of …
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Pro Tools Problems?
Greetings everyone,
I'm making a Pro Tools "Community Wiki" on here since we seem to get a lot of Pro Tools related tech questions. It seems a bit unnecessary to clog this place …
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A Living Sound Effect Library
I don't know if any of you have seen this but I just found it while looking up bird songs on youtube and I was pretty amazed..
[youtube]VjE0Kdfos4Y[/youtube]
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Large Hadron Collider Sounds and Music
I found this interesting competition on the web today.
Remix Contest: Sounds from the Large Hadron Collider
What I thought was interesting is the sound samples that are presented …
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Year end sonic-mash!
Hello Everyone!
I guess most of you might have seen this post on Designing Sound. This is just a reminder to contribute a sound if you can!
If you don't know what I'm talking ab …
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Footsteps for Kontakt
Try this free footsteps patch. Give me feedback please.
Requires the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 4.2.3 or later.
http://www.signoaudiodesign.com
Thanks
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Separating Early reflections from Diffuse in an Impulse Response
How would you separate the early reflections from the diffuse in an Impulse Response?
I'm talking about before you put it into a convolution plugin.
I'd like to use only the earl …
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Christmas night SF free download!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0U8JEMT0
On Christmas night from about 4-7 pm I recorded a bunch of stuff and here it is for download.
I recorded mostly in San Francisco with a Sennh …
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Transcription of interview with Dane Davis
I interviewed Sound designer Dane Davis (The Matrix, Speed Racer, Aeon Flux...) on November 8th 2010, and posted most of it on my blog at https://studentofsound.wordpress.com/2010/ …
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Sound Design on Tribes: Ascend - Part 2
Hey Everyone,
Here are some updated gameplay videos from QuakeCon2011. I would love any and all feedback that you guys have on my sound design for this game.
http://www.youtube. …
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Furthest Distance You’ve Successfully Used a Dynamic Mic From?
Have a fun SFX recording session going down Sunday - Source is going to be about 140 - 150db, about 100m from me.
Definitely bringing some high SPL shotguns, but was considering u …
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What the best “new” large general sound library out there ??
So I know that several libraries are now over 10 years old IE : Sound ideas General 6000.
I'm looking for the best "new" library something like Blastdrive or the new Sound Ideas G …
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recording dialogue for animation
I typed this up in response to a gearslutz thread, but I figured it could find a home here as well. The question was: "what tips do you have for recording dialogue for animation?" …
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Camel Alchemy Sound Design
Hi guys,
Can you help me on this one? It's been some time that I wanted to broaden my options in sound design so I've got to the conclusion of starting with Camel Alchemy. Could y …