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Can you please explain "Scanned Synthesis"?

I just purchased (an amazing deal, pay what you want for) Scanned Synth by Humanoid Systems. I'm curious about scanned synthesis. I've read the Wikipedia page on it, but I'm wondering if someone could explain it a bit more clearly.…
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FX REQUEST: Jamaican Walla + Stingers

EXT DAY - Poor Jamaican town. Lonely kid walks down the street and all we see are birds and a few dogs. So we want convey activity in this scene where there really is none. I have added some sounds of people in there houses with the windows open…
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Tips for cutting bullet bys

Hello, I'm currently working on a short film with a lot of gun fighting. I went through and cut all of the gun shots and now I'm working on bullet bys. It would be great if you guys could share any tricks or tips you have learned when cutting…
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How do I practice Sound Design?

I'm relatively new to sound design and audio for film but am extremely interested. Lately I've been downloading commercials, video game trailers and movie trailers and just trying to recreate the audio and fill in with my own creations I think are…
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The Best of Simple Ideas

Have you ever had one of those moments discussing workflow, processing, or what have you...where someone mentions something that's such a painfully simple concept, you wonder why you never thought of it before? Maybe you've simply had a "Eureka!"…
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Reverbs for Urban Exteriors

Hi I've always wonder how to create those dense reverbs that you often hear in big cities. The classic example are sirens, car honks, or train whistles really far away. Whenever I listen to recordings that have these distant sounds baked in, they…
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recording outdoor crowd walla

Howdy. Does anyone have experience recording outdoor crowd walla? I am planning for a session of 30+ people in an outdoor setting and was thinking of recording in quad using a sound devices 744t. Looking for mic type and placement suggestions as…
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LFO sounds in nature

Hi, I am interested in capturing LFO type sounds in nature. Something that starts at a high oscillating rate and drops to a lower one... Does anything come to mind? Animals, natural phenomena (weather, springs, rivers, etc) thanks... -Steven
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Video game sound design

Anyone recommend a specific sound design program or certificate or anything like that, that will help me prepare for video game sound design?
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Pro Tools 10:Region Gain

I encountered an error this week after spending a week on a feature film dialogue edit where I was charged with leveling the audio using region gain within my dialogue edit. The mixer is not working with PT10, so the plan was to render my region…
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How do you record loud sounds?

Yesterday I had the good fortune to do some car drop recordings. Needless to say it was loud and great fun ;) There was 4 other recordists there and during the after session beers we were discussing different techniques for recording loud transient…
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Golden Mean/Flower of Life/Rule of Thirds and Sound

The Rule of Thirds for the image is controlled by the Golden mean which is a part of the Flower of Life. Hopefully you're still following somewhat.. The Flower of Life also contains the 5 Platonic Solids. Philosopers and artists have studied and…
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Are there tools to seamlessly loop sounds?

I need to loop a lot of recordings such that the loop is not clearly hearable. For example, I recorded some sounds in the forest and want to loop them such that I can fall to sleep when listening them. If the sounds simply start from the beginning…
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Emotional Monster Voices

Hello Everybody, Ive been wondering for many days to create monster voices with emotion. So the idea is to get emotion in voices like in the movie WALL-E, but they are robotic. So are there any ideas to create emotions such as…
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Add Metadata To Impulse Responses

Last night I recorded an impulse response of my building's parking garage with fairly decent results. After importing into Altiverb 7, I couldn't figure out how to add photos or other metadata to the user created IR. Also, I recorded the sine sweep…
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