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What sound bursts your bubble?
When enjoying media for entertainment purposes, what specific sounds shatter your suspension of disbelief?
For me, it is the call of a loon. I grew up in Muskoka, which is a cottage district in Ontario. My ears prick up whenever I hear that bird…
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The Way Forward
So, I'm a young guy. I've got years ahead of me and billions of decisions to make. Over the years I've come to realize and expect that I will get more than a few of them wrong. And I'm okay with that.
What's been on my mind lately is the way…
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What is expected from a sound effects editor?
What are the exact tasks that a sound effects editor is expected to fulfill? Apart from choosing the effect and editing it, are we expected to also mix, place the SFX in a space, EQ to context, etc.? I'm in a smaller team so I do a lot more than…
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Do you play an instrument?
How important is musical training to a sound designer? What, if any, instruments do you play, and has this affected the way you 'compose' a design? I play the cello and piano,nowhere near as well as I would like to, and I like to think that this…
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Another Discovery of Wind in the Studio
It's Sunday.
Here's another recording I just did.
This time I took the same Kleenex box I used before and without any air flow, I stuck it on the ground, placed the hole right next to the U87 and rubbed the top of the box with my finger in slow…
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What are your favorite headphones and why?
I have a number of headphones that I use for different purposes:
The obligatory Sony MDR7506s: Love these, they're like the NS-10Ms of headphones. I use them for as much as possible when external SPL allows. I use them for any critical listening I…
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How do you cope with disgusting horror passages?
Does it make it easier to stand the horror in a movie when you're part of its making process?
I'm not quite sure how this sounds, but I particularly hate horror movies in the sense that I can't stand them. They are just psychologically too much for…
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Røde NT-USB produces static noise depending on the USB cable
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask my question, so please remind me if this is the case.
The problem
I just discovered that my USB microphone produces static noise (not sure if this is the correct term). Please listen carefully to this…
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Film Predubs: real or virtual?
So when you are predubbing do you/your re-recording mixer print stems & replay those in the final mix, or do you just write automation and all the original edit tracks runs live?
If you could qualify your answer with the type of mixing desk being…
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How would you design the sound of a submersible propeller?
POST-MORTEM: Using a variety of tools and manipulating them underwater while recording with a 3 different pairs of hydrophones (for a total of 6 different perspectives) yielded truly wonderful results! Thanks to all for your contributions to the…
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Difference between frame and sample in waveform
As far as I understand, a frame consist of multiple samples and both are kind-of a point in a time series.
My questions are :
What's the difference between sample and frame?
Why define two different concepts? Why not just merge them into one?
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If you're a Sound Designer of a movie, do you have total supervision over what the trailer sounds like?
I have heard that there are post production facilities that specialize in trailers and only trailers.
Does this mean they have their own sound teams that do the sound for trailers totally separate from the studio who does the soundtrack for the…
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Backgrounds for a dead city?
Hi guys
(my English is failing me big time today for some reason! so please forgive me
and bear with me if possible)
I just started working on a short (30 min) settled in a (present)
post apocalyptic, abandoned city.
It is not clear why the city is…
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Origin of the traditional Hollywood silencer sound?
Does anyone have information on the origin of the traditional Hollywood suppressed gunshot that sounds roughly like a punchy whistle, or "pteew!"?
Nobody who shoots modern suppressors has ever heard anything like it, with one notable and…
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Natural morph between 2 voices
I'm trying to morph a voice into a second one, for an anticipation movie (there's a brief resume of the movie in the beginning of a previous question I answered about how to make futuristic cars here : Futuristic cars )
The protagonist can change…
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