Archive for the ‘Sound Design’ Category

• Metal On Metal

  Inspired by my research into horror movie sound fx and DIY instruments I decided to gather up an assortment of metal objects and start recording.

  Scrounging around the house I had no trouble quickly locating several candidates for my ‘metal …

  Posted: February 28th, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Sound Design
• Industrial Field Recordings

  The other day we had some unusually warm weather here in the Midwest. I took the opportunity to get out for a walk among the mountains of thawing snow and ice to collect some sounds.

  My neighborhood is in close …

  Posted: February 21st, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Sound Design
• Pickup Coil Recordings

  

  A short time back I was reading an article about using a telephone pickup coil to record EMFs created by everyday electrical devices.  The article on the Radium Audio Labs blog comes from the brilliant sound designers over at Radium …

  Posted: February 7th, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
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• DIY Music Instruments

  After yesterday’s post Making Horror Movie Sound FX I began wondering were I could acquire a violin bow and and possibly a cymbal for super cheap. Before I discovered cheap bows on Amazon.com I looked around for some DIY articles.…

  Posted: February 3rd, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Sound Design
• Making Horror Movie Sound FX

  Recently I’ve been looking into doing more sound design. When I was putting together Suffer This Mortal Vessel: An Exorcism I found myself digging for a microphone instead of digging for samples.

  Obviously I am interested in creating dark and …

  Posted: February 2nd, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Sound Design