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Sound Design depicting mental illness in film

I'm currently working on a film about a woman suffering from schizophrenia and was wondering if anyone had any more left field suggestions for films with interesting sound design depicting mental illness. So far I'm referencing: through a glass…
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Is there any reason that AudioEase couldn't make an IR from the Tenman Horn?

Just heard about this 80 year old technology making a comeback on NPR this evening. A 27' horn loudspeaker? Yes, I think it would make a great IR: http://www.stuff.tv/history-s-greatest-loudspeaker-back-business/feature Is there any reason why it…
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Book recommendations on surround sound

I'm interested in learning more about surround sound. Can anyone recommend a comprehensive book that will be appropriate for someone who has basic knowledge but wants to get into surround studio, recording, and mixing? Looking for something that…
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How To Make Cicada Sound

I'm here because I've met some troubles in the project wich i'm working in. One of the most important character in the movie is : a cicada. The problem is, i have to make the cicada lives with the sound, and I've tried everything : Find Cicada sound…
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What do I lose when reducing bit depth?

I am concerned about the losses when converting flac files from 24bit to 16bit. Does it reduce quality or add noise or what?
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Tips for recording/designing ball kicks

I need a bunch of sounds of rugby balls being kicked. I need big, I need small, and everything in between. In the movie, the kicks always happen on the field outdoors. I have an idea as to how I want to approach this, but I don't have much time to…
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What sampling rate and bit depth would be necessary to make a digital recording indistinguishable from the original?

I'm assuming this is a solved question (please cite sources). It seems like a 96kHz sampling rate with 24-bit samples is standard for high-resolution audio, but is this considered to be indistinguishable from natural audio?
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Foley Metal Footsteps

Just rejoined as couldn't figure out how to get my old account back, hope your all doing well! So on to the question, I've been trying to get metal surface footsteps to sound right for years but still not happy.... so am looking for…
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What are some tips and techniques on recording paper, pencil, chalkboard and other often harsh sounding foley?

What are some tips and techniques on recording paper, pencil, chalkboard and other often harsh sounding foley? Many times I'm designing an animated piece that requires organic foley elements like pencil drawings, chalkboard writing, paper moves,…
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Using Max/MSP to interpret real-time data sets from the web

For about a year now I've been curious to have a different way of looking at the internet. having a way to see or hear data sets in a way that would give a "zoomed-out" look at the set, rather than at the individual points of data. I've been…
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What is Abstract Sound Design?

I want to understand what Abstract Sound Design means. I looked at other questions here but couldn't find an answer I fully understood. What it means in terms of - How do you create it? What is it for? What is it exactly? Anything you can tell me…
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What impact does applying gain to a digital audio signal have on playback?

I'd like to know what role digital gain (volume) control has on logical and perceived quality. I do have knowledge about how audio is stored digitally but do not know how volume works beyond the fact that it relates to the magnitude or amplitude of…
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Effective way to reduce breathing in ADRs and Voiceovers!

I really love my Voice-over/ADR sound now. I use a TLM 103 amped by a SPL Channel One mk2 Premium (which I use for some 3-6 dB compression, gentle DeEssing, Highcut (50Hz) and Air-band boosting by 2-3 dB (14kHz) ). Usually I use a plug-in chain of…
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Transpose a track 6 octaves in Ableton Live in realtime

The "transpose" knob in Ableton Live 9 only allows transposing down 48 semitones, which is 4 octaves. In order to best approximate what a bat hears, I'd like to transpose down 6 octaves, which is 72 semitones. I could record one track into another,…
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REQUEST: Playful elephants

I am cutting a nature doc about deforestation and I have hit a brick wall on a certain scene. In this scene, we are in an elephant habitat and there are about 6 adult elephants that are bathing in the river and wrestling on the shore and in the…
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