A sound design tutorial by Paul Virostek Why Record for Perspective? I remember a time I first began editing when I was struggling to make a car door slam match the picture on film. I shifted the sound earlier, later, added and removed elements and it still didn’t fit. The editor who was mentoring me […]
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Using Sound Effects within music composition and production for increased overall effect
Excuse Me, You’ve Got Some Sound Effects in My Music About using sound effects in music production and how the line between sound effects and music is blurring by Kole Hicks The use of certain elements we consider “Sound Effects” in Music is much more common than we may think. Whether it’s nature ambiances heard […]
Three Ways to Build a Sound Library
by Paul Virostek What’s the best way for a new field recordist to begin building a sound library? How can a sound designer grow a folders of scattered samples into a collection with heft and weight? Huge sound clip libraries roam the Web. Some have tens of thousands of sound effects. New sound pros are […]
Working with audio in Sony Vegas® – Part Two – Adding FX, Mixing & Rendering Audio Files
by Simon Power In this series of articles we will be offering fundamental help and advice to amateur and semi-pro audio/visual producers who use Sony Vegas and want to incorporate music, voice overs and SFX in their productions. Introduction In part one of this tutorial, we looked at importing and timestretching audio files […]
Working with audio in Sony Vegas® – Part One – Importing & Timestretching audio files
In this series of articles we will be offering fundamental help and advice to amateur and semi-pro audio/visual producers who use Sony Vegas and want to incorporate music, voice overs and SFX in their productions. Introduction Sony’s Vegas Pro® is an excellent creative tool for audio/visual work. It’s intuitive and powerful, and especially good when […]
Using Reverb to enhance your productions
by John Radford Reverb in productions is probably for most composers the first ‘go to’ plug in and after effect, yet just as reverb can add a great professional quality and depth to your music, and can just as quickly ruin the production and make it sound ‘over produced’ and unprofessional. Reverb can often make […]
Sound for Picture – Faking it
by Terry Wilson As a sound editor and designer, the most important thing is re-enforcing the visual landscape presented to the audience; providing an audible focus, and creating sonic cues to match the pictures. The vast majority of low and mid budget film & TV productions are set in the real world, or in everyday […]
Review: Samson Zoom H4 Handy Recorder
By Paul Virostek Introduction For decades it seemed professional sound recording was limited to cumbersome tape-based Nagra machines or DAT recorders that required agonizing real-time transfers. I have been recording Hollywood sound effects for over 13 years. Often I’ve heard a rare sound and wished I had a recorder handy to capture it a moment’s […]
Asset Management: Keep track of sound clips with metadata
How to Choose Sound Library Management Software by Paul Virostek Are you a composer with a large music library? Do you plan to be one, someday? Perhaps you’re a producer or editor who juggles music and sound clips daily, and are throwing your hands up to the sky trying to sort your samples strewn […]
