The ol’ “It’s been a while!”
It’s been a while! I haven’t been terribly active online in the audio world for a while now. Partially from a desire to unplug, but largely because audio work has kept me very busy lately! Since my last post (June…
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I Built a Very Specific VST3 Plugin and Forgot About It – Now You Can Have It!
A long time ago I ran into a situation in a session at my work where I needed to dial a code on a phone patch, but couldn’t easily enter the code. I was connected to a phone conference via…
Schoenhut Toy Piano
My grandparents kept just about everything. They kept pictures. They kept trinkets. They kept coffee cups, little figurines, and toys. They kept important things and seemingly meaningless things… They kept memories. It’s not something I appreciated anytime I went over…
Flying Solo With Recording Gear – Mistakes and Successes
I’ve been doing a lot of flying lately for a sound effects library I’m working on. It’s been a nice change of pace; Using my library sales to fund these trips, rather than spending it on gear and props. However,…
Building an Acoustic Diffuser
I’ve been slowly building up my home studio over the years. I’ve purchased speakers, monitors, televisions, computer parts, keyboards, interfaces… all that fun stuff. However when it comes to some things, I look at the price and just get angry.
Recording Red Hot Ball Bearings (Without Burning Down Your House)
How in the world did Thermal Flux come to be? Good question. Sometimes identifying the origin of a library is difficult for me to narrow down to specifics. For Thermal Flux, I can narrow it down to one video: I…
Learning to Record on Two Wheels
One of the things I’ve had almost no experience in until this year is onboard vehicle recording. To be honest, I probably subconsciously avoided it for so long because of how difficult/time consuming it can be to get right. There’s a lot…
Creating a Sound Effects Library – Lessons Learned
I’ve been running Collected Transients for almost a year now (wow!), and feel like it’s a good time to take a look back at my experiences in launching and running an independent SFX library so far. I’m going to try…
Premeditated Metadata – Fuse Slating with Metadata
I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with audio metadata. When it comes to finding the right sound effect for a project, I love it. When it comes to entering all of that data, I sort of hate it. It’s…
Collected Transients Launch – Sound Effects Libraries
I love recording things. Small things. Big things. Loud things. Quiet things. Close things. Distant things. ALL of the things. I love recording things so much that I’ve decided to share them with the world! Today, I officially launched Collected…