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Preventing Plosives
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Loading ...From: digitaljuicetv - 5 tips to help prevent those painful plosives so you can record powerful, pop-free soundtracks.
Designing A Movie For Sound
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The biggest myth about composing and sound designing is that they are about creating great sounds. Not true, or at least not true enough. Recommended by Member: Uncle Bob …What is Sound Design? You may assume that it’s about fabricating neat sound effects. But that doesn’t describe very accurately what Ben Burtt [...]
The Free Sound Project
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...The Free Sound Project is a huge, collaborative database of sound clips licensed for free sampling and remixing. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs. Search for sounds or browse the tag list, which includes “water,” “tick,” “toilet,” “children,” “screaming,” “kitchen,” “subway” and “sweep” - all sounds released under a Creative Commons license. Great [...]
Finding Sound FX
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This segment explores the Digital Juice Sound FX library and show you how to find exactly what you need to finish your scene.
Selling it With Sound
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It’s not what you see, but what you HEAR that sells most scenes… And most of what you hear when you go to the movies or watch TV was created with Sound FX. Whether you need to sound out the literal, imply existence or add ambience… Sound fx are a powerful tool in the hands [...]
Worldizing: a sound design concept by Walter Murch
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Manipulating sound until it seemed to be something that existed in real space. This refers to playing back existing recordings through a speaker or speakers in real-world acoustic situations, and recording that playback with microphones so that the new recording takes on the acoustic characteristics of the place it was “re-recorded.”
Fundamentals of Sample Rate
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...From: digitaljuicetv This episode uses animations and audio examples to explain the fundamentals of sample rate and how it affects the quality of digital audio.
The man who brings movies to life
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...You may not know the name Ben Burtt, but odds are you have heard his work. Here is a great interview from the BBC with the Oscar-winning sound designer. …Star Wars, Indiana Jones, E.T. and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers - some of the most famous movies in modern film history. Ben Burtt is [...]
Editing Dialogue
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A question and answer session from FilmSound.org with many helpful tips on improving less than perfect dialogue tracks. …Ari: I’m working on a feature film and the dialogue is not that bad but not fantastic (probably not as bad as I think). There is a scene where 2 people are being filmed and the camera [...]
Skywalker Sound: The Making of a Movie Soundtrack
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Here is a great article from THX & Skywalker Sound that has been persevered by Archive.org. The article is copyrighted 1998, but still an essential guide for crafting a soundtrack. …Skywalker Sound is George Lucas’s state of the art post production company located in Marin County, California. It is a part of Lucas Digital Ltd., [...]
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