Getting Started With Pro Tools

February 14, 2018, 06:26 AM

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This free video tutorial brought to you in association with Avid is the sixth in a series, aimed at people who are new to recording or new to Pro Tools. We follow the development of a demo recording from the point of view of someone with no prior experience of recording.

Oscar Watch: The Shape (and sound) of Water

February 13, 2018, 06:16 PM

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Post production sound mixers Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern, who are nominated (with production mixer Glen Gauthier) for their work on Fox’s The Shape of Water, have sat side-by-side at mixing consoles for nearly a decade. The frequent collaborators, who handle mixing duties at Deluxe Toronto, Continue reading → February 13, 2018 The post Oscar Watch: The Shape (and sound) of Water appeared first on Randi Altman's postPerspective.

Blade Runner 2049 Sound Mixers Speak about their w

February 13, 2018, 06:15 PM

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'Blade Runner 2049' sound mixers Doug Hemphill, Ron Bartlett chat with Gold Derby's Zach Laws: 'Blade Runner was in our DNA.' They previously collaborated with Ridley Scott on the 2007 final-cut version of the 1982 sci-fi classic, re-mixing the film with all the new bells and whistles available to them. When they lent their talents to Denis Villeneuve's 2017 followup they reaped an Oscar nomination for Best Sound Mixing.

Oscar Nominated Sound Designers Theo Green & Mark

February 13, 2018, 10:30 AM

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For director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, sound designers Theo Green and Mark Mangini relished the challenge of creating the film’s soundtrack without the use of any off-the-shelf effects. The director tasked them to “compose with sound.” Everything heard in the film’s universe was “created from whole cloth” by sound designers and sound editors. “Theo […] The post Oscar Nominated Sound Designers Theo Green & Mark Mangini – Blade Runner 2049 appeared first on Bel...

Pro Tools Mixing Automation Tutorial with Brad Eng

February 13, 2018, 10:29 AM

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Mix your audio post projects as efficiently as possible with these Pro Tools mixing automation tips. Most freelancers don’t have a huge mixing console, but that shouldn’t hold you back. In this in-depth video tutorial, supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Brad Engleking (Sin City 2, Machete Kills) shares his ... The post Pro Tools Mixing Automation Tutorial with Brad Engleking appeared first on Pro Sound Effects Library.

Modular System Retrospective from a Sound Designer

February 13, 2018, 10:28 AM

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This is a guest contribution by Seattle-based sound designer Chris Burgess. Chris has been working principally in game audio for the last several years to support his “healthy” addiction to synths. Recently he’s worked on Guild Wars 2, Middle-earth: Shadow of War and République. I built my first modular system about seven months ago and dove in with an […]

Oscar Nominated Sound Designer Richard King – Du

February 13, 2018, 06:21 AM

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  For Richard King, designing the sound for director Christopher Nolan’s WWII war epic, Dunkirk, “was quite a journey,” which began with reading books to get into the history. In particular the book, Voices of Dunkirk, provided first hand accounts of participants in the event. The research gave him “a global understanding of what happened” […] The post Oscar Nominated Sound Designer Richard King – Dunkirk appeared first on Below the Line.

A Review of iZotope Vinyl

February 11, 2018, 09:18 PM

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In which I review the free audio plug-in iZotope Vinyl and end up singing Gershwin terribly.

'Sicario' Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson Dead at 48

February 10, 2018, 07:27 PM

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The last 24 hours have been miserable. Last night, David Simon took to Twitter to sadly announce that Reg E. Cathey, the astounding character actor known for key roles in TV (House of Cards, The Wire, Oz, Outcast, etc.) and film (Airheads, The Mask, American Psycho, Pootie Tang, etc.), had passed away after a battle with cancer at 60. And then this morning, the sense of loss was compounded with the news that Jóhann Jóhannsson, the ingenious musician and composer behind the wondrous scores for ...

February 10, 2018, 07:27 PM

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Jóhann Jóhannsson, the Oscar-nominated composer of such films as “Arrival,” “Sicario” and “The Theory of Everything,” was found dead on Friday in his Berlin apartment, his manager said. He was 48.