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RODE University has been updated, now offering 10 free online classes on  recording sound for film and TV , delivered by sound effects master Ric Viers . Now you don’t need to own a Rode mic to sign up to the classes. It’s free and open to everyone. These are the topics: Ep 01: Location Sound Recording (NTG-3) - This week Ric Viers, [...]

Colin Hart has published a very interesting and detailed article about the principles and techniques of boom operation. It’s more focused on location sound, but it will be an amazing read for anyone who has to deal with booms, including sound designers and recordists.

The Boom Operator: one of the most crucial parts of a sound team, if [...]

Alexandre Rocca , Dorian Darcourt and  Hugo Guiral have founded Surround Library , a new online sound effects library offering surround sounds for download, in different categories and formats. This is what they said about it:

After several months of hard work, we are pleased to announce the launch of our online surround sound effects library : Surround Library. Our website offers [...]

New month means a new special on DS. I’m very glad to announce the visit of one of my favorite sound designers out there: David Farmer . He will be sharing a lot of interesting stuff, including articles, interviews, videos, and more! I hope you enjoy it. Bio David Farmer grew up in the little town of Gladys, [...]

The guys of Game Audio Podcast have published the fifth episode of their podcast series. This time it’s a mini episode, talking about different things:

Its a mini episode, no guests, just us catching up as we get ready for another season of game audio. We talk about the rise of the indie sample libaries, the mini synth rage, projects we [...]

Wow, August just flew! Here is the final post of the Rob Nokes special, with the answers to the questions made by the readers during this month. Hope you enjoyed this month, and get ready for September! :D Designing Sound Reader: How well do you take care of your microphones? Do you leave them out in [...]

Tim Prebble has been interviewed by Ande Schurr at “The Big Idea”. The interview is really interesting and full inspiring, don’t miss it!

Sound Designer Tim Prebble is at catch for my freelance series. He has an office across the road from Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post, is a thrice finalist in this year’s Qantas Film and Television Awards for [...]

Here is an interview that Rob Nokes had some time ago, where he talks about the work on his sound effects company. Let’s read: Question: What is the quality control for sounds available for the users and customers?

Answer: A Sounddogs.com librarian will review the recordings and master them before they are imported in the web site [...]

Jayson Napolitano , from Original Sound Version has created a new section on the site called “Blast from the Past”, which will include interviews made previously in the Music4Games site (offline several months ago). He started with a great interview he had with composer Kenji Yamamoto and Retro Studios sound supervisor Scott Petersen talking about their work on “Metroid Prime [...]

Frederic Dubois is a french sound editor and sound designer, who recently worked on feature movies like “Igor”, “Transporter 3″ and “From Paris with love”. A few years ago Frederic founded ” EFX” where he wanted to sell his own sounds effects on Cds. He began to record guns (something special and very rare in europe). It was [...]

Sound designers, editors, mixers, geeks and Star Wars fans. Our day has come! Ben Burt has presented ” The Sounds of Star Wars “, a new book written with  J. W. Rinzler . Inside it you’ll find all the secrets behind the making of the sound effects of Star Wars, and also the book includes a sound module with speaker and [...]

Tim Prebble has added a forum section to the HISS and a ROAR site, a place for collaboration between HISS and a ROAR customers and contributors of the crowdsource SFX libraries, which menas that this collaboration model is working really good. Tim talked on his blog about the reasons of the forum:

1. I figure it is a better [...]

When I saw the first images of Red Dead Redemption I knew that it will be a beautiful and amazing game. Then, the gameplay confirmed me that not only the visuals were great. The sound work there was fantastic. Clean mix, great sounds, and a perfect sonic experience for any player. So, if like me, you [...]

“I’d love to record everything every time, but the most important thing is to find the sound which provides that feeling you’re looking for regardless of where it comes from.”

- Richard King

The Recordist has released ” Flying Insects “, a new sound effects library on his Soundbox HD series.

Introducing Flying Insects SoundBox HD. This collection has some crazy sounds from real live insects recorded over the last few years. Insects are really tough to record. For one, they really do not take well to trainers as they have a [...]

David Sonnenschein is officially announcing ” Sound Design for Pros “, a new site where he will be announcing his sound design webinar, which start with a new free webinar where David will make an introduction to his new 6-week webinar program.

This free Intro Webinar will give you an overview of topics essential for the creative, professional sound [...]

The SFX recording challenge on The Guardian was that the action sequences took place below and above water. My goal was to deliver a SFX library that was thick, rich and accurate. We were able to create a fantastic water sound library thanks to the work by Alex Daniels, the stunt coordinator on the film. Our [...]

I remember when we started to see all this independent companies of sound effects distribution just starting. Now I’m glad to see all the amazing packages that have been released by designers and recordists that put their heart and soul into this. For a good resume and opinions about this, I recommend you to read [...]