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Sound of the Week – Harp Stretch
Several months ago I was hired to do some recording down at Pike’s Place market in Seattle. We recorded lots of things, including a good sampling of the fantastic street musicians that play there on a...
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Sound of the Week – Humming Birds
What would the world sound like if we could climb inside the head of another animal? I went to the Olympic National Park some time ago with my wife and got some great recordings of humming bird...
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Sound of the Week – Bells
I’m currently working on the DVD length cut of “JourneyQuest – Season 2″, a web-series I worked on last summer, and I was reminded of a very small moment in the series that I thought was...
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Sound of the Week = !?
100 points if you can guess the origins of this sound. Hint – it’s made by a living creature. !? Click here for the answer.
View ArticleSound in Scene –“Hanna” subway fight
As a movie, I felt Hanna didn’t live up to it’s potential and was ultimately an exercise in style over substance. But man, what style! If you haven’t scene it, it’s definitely worth watching. For...
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Hello. This is my blog. It used to be just about sampling but now I write about sound design and film audio as well. If you’d like even more content then what you find here I suggest you visit and...
View ArticleThe Do’s of Audio for Media
I don’t think there’s an audio post engineer in existence who doesn’t have dozens of stories about awful production sound or tales of great movies ruined by unrepairable audio. But instead of...
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Sound of the week = Epic Stapler!
I was zeroing out the vocal booth after a recording session one day and for some reason I found myself walking past the microphone with a stapler in my hand. So of course I stopped for a moment...
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Sound of the Week = Scissors
This weeks sound is from my sample library Fractured. Fractured is a collection of multisampled Kontakt instruments made from acoustic guitars played every possible way except for the “correct” way....
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Sound of the Week = Pistachio
Here’s a song I made recently as part of a guest posting on the popular blog “Designing Sound“. The song is made entirely from a bowl of pistachio shells. And here’s a video that explains some...
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Sound of the Week = Ketchup Bottle
This week’s sounds were made for the short film “When I Grow Up” by Colin Hesterly. The video is an homage to the cartoons of the 40s and 50s so I wanted the sound effects to be reminiscent of that...
View ArticleSound of the Week = Faux Scratching
Here’s a quick tutorial video I made about creating a faux dj scratching sound out of an instrument case and a plastic fork. The concept could easily be applied to other materials as well. The result...
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A + B + C = Corpse Worm How I made the corpse worm sounds for JourneyQuest.
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Fun with Noise Reduction
What’s the aural equivalent of negative space? Silence is the obvious answer, but what we call silence is not really silent at all. Practically speaking, the aural equivalent of negative space would...
View ArticleSound of the Week = Marble in a Balloon
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View ArticleThe Sound of Serenity
Download Video: MP4 In this clip from the title sequence to Joss Whedon’s 2005 movie “Serenity” I’ve removed the center audio channel. What is left is mainly the ambiences and background effects....
View ArticleSound of The Week = Light Cover
Foley artist Jamie Hunsdale shot this video of us playing with what we’re pretty sure is a light cover. Whatever it is, it makes some cool sounds. At the end of the video, and in the soundcloud link...
View ArticleSound of the Week = sun, wind, water and snow
What is the sound of sunshine? This was one of the more conceptually challenging tasks I have been given as a sound designer. At 52 seconds, in the clip below, the sun rises through the trees and the...
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Voice options for “The Mighty-T”
Finding the right sound often takes a lot of experimentation. For the voice of the main character in the animation “The Mighty-T”, I went through many iterations before landing on something that fit...
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