Nascar! LOUD!
I went to my first Nascar race last weekend. It was LOUD! People had warned me about this, but I don’t think I quite understood it until I was there.
Tag SFX
Lifting Michigan Avenue
One of the things Chicago is known for is it’s some what infamous river. The Chicago river (as beautiful as it is today) was once so sludged full of sewage and other waste that rats could run across the build-up on the…
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…
The Weirdos with Microphones
If you’re reading this post, chances are you’ve done some field recording. If you’ve done a lot of field recording, chances are you’ve had a few run ins with police, security, and the general public where they thought you were…
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…
Windy City – Chicago – 4am
Wind is a tricky thing to record. There are a couple inherent problems with the idea of recording wind:
Recording Freight Trains is Serious Business
I took a trip back to my hometown last weekend. I brought my Zoom along, as I normally do when I head to Galesburg. Many times, however, I forget about it and don’t realize I missed the chance to capture…
Flying Robot Boogie Cats
Fly-bys and swooshes are a huge part of sound design. While typical library solutions might work, you can’t beat originally created material. For me this is usually done by designing each sound effect individually, and this takes time. You might…
Help Start a Crowd-sourced Sound Library
Mike Niederquell has taken the initiative to start putting together free crowd-sourced sound libraries. The basic idea is a new library each month, and anyone who contributes a recording gets access to the that library. Best of all, it’s free!