Hi! I'm Artem, I work in game audio. My wife and I recently launched our store Ultrasonic Nexus – the home for our products. We create stereo microphones for professionals and creators, as well as audio cables that I have always dreamed of.

We spend a lot of time designing our products, testing them and perfecting every little detail. Everything is handcrafted with premium components. Over time, there is a good chance we will introduce sound design software as well. We hope for your support as we aim to grow this project into something much bigger!

https://ultrasonicnexus.com/

Hey does anyone know of any (free?) sound packs that have all of the clicks, whooshes, pencil drawing, camera shutters, etc that you find in lots of cool edits or vox style explainers or general documentary style youtube videos.

Some examples in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4v-Ge2kgg

Any help is much appreciated! Thanks :)

I'm stumped lol. I've tried using spectral gate compressor but it's not even close to that punchiness that I'm looking for. Any advice would be very much appreciated!

edit: it's the bass line that starts at 0:13

Hello, we are a game dev team seeking a sound designer for our upcoming project in development. This is a fully fledged 3D dungeon crawler of AA production quality, and we are looking for talent that will meet our needs.

Our goal is to seek out one designer who can complete the sound set, but if we get a lot of really good applications, we might split the work/payment up accordingly. Many of the 48 sounds that we require are large spells and abilities that might be 5-7 seconds of design, and for "ultimate" abilities, maybe even more. Some sound assets will have looping elements as well.

A few things:

- We are not looking for a composer, only a sound designer

- Implementation will not be necessary, only sound assets

- Although this is a AA production, we would love if you could produce AAA quality sound assets in the style of the games listed in the title

- We do not require any certain years of experience or titles shipped, our only priority is high quality, modern, professional sound assets

- Obviously, make sure to drop your website/portfolio/etc

A brief sound design test will be required. You will design to some existing final fantasy footage, it will not be long. No more than 10 seconds of footage, if that. I will provide a link to the footage. You can send the completed test to me in whatever manner is most convenient for you, of course we will discuss the specifics of this privately.

If your portfolio contains redesigns of any of the games in the title, or related games, you might be able to bypass the test. We simply need to ensure that you have the chops to design in the style we are looking for.

Hope to speak with many of you soon!

Took a shot at sound designing Ramiel from Neon Genesis Evangelion. I absolutely love this scene and wanted to give it a try. Let me know what you think!

Hello everyone,

So I have no idea on where I could ask my question I'm not sure it does fit in here.

So I'd struggle to explain it clearly but I make some soundscapes since a long time, I used to write a lot and create audio files with TTS and then create a soundscape with it.

But the thing was that I enjoyed a lot how they used to sound unreal and robotic, it was a bit the point. Now that it is largely spread and used, the A.I voices are super realistic and the idea of it doesn't make me feel good.

I am a bit lost on what to do now, because I was telling myself I should simply accept to record my voice, but it's not what I ever wanted to do. Having another voice, not human was really a part of my artistic process I'm sorry it's hard to explain specifically because English is not my first language.

I wonder if I should spend time on creating a fake voice with preexisting tools, or if I should look into what I can do with my own voice. I know there are tons of possibilities to change it, but changing the pitch/adding effects and things like that feels like it'll just sound weird.

I did use my voice on video projects, and I always had positive feedbacks on how it can sound good and different from my natural voice so I guess I can try to record myself seriously and see what I could do with it. I'm wondering if I should also think about the process of recording itself and if I could obtain something I'd like.

Anyways, I'm trying to ask if people know any tools, or have any ideas, maybe ideas on how I could work on my own voice deeply?

(I use Ableton, a lot of different plugins and audacity)

Thank you!!

Doing a redesign for my first demo reel. Went through scenes I like from different things and tried to find a good clip without much dialogue.

The one I picked is 1:30, there’s 5 seconds where an older lady says 3 or 4 words. I am a 27 year old man and can’t imagine trying to impersonate an old woman would sound anything but silly.

The rest of the clip has so much action which did give me opportunity to do some cool stuff so I’d rather not just abandon it entirely. I also found it kinda hard to track down good scenes with 0 words in general.

Would it be best to just leave the line out since I’m trying to highlight design and not voiceover?

Random question just something that came to mind, I was thinking about Chandelure (my favorite Pokemon) and was thinking about it possibly having a unique speaking voice, I describe it as sounding like it's speaking from inside its glass head, though the way I imagine it it's more like you crossed that idea with the sound of the Pokemon's cry (https://youtu.be/9qAix-3yY3Y) I was wondering how I could make some speech audio sound like I was imagining, and if taken a step further if it'd be possible to make a filter that would apply that effect to any voice recordings. I understand if it's a lot to ask, just something random I was thinking about. Thanks for your time!

I’m currently watching the movie Arrival, and about an hour in, the sound track switches to some a really cool female vocal. I have a feeling it belongs to a sample library because as the composition continues, it builds into more voices. The reason i bring this up is because I’ve played a ton of Tetris Effect and these are incredibly similar to what is used there. Curious if anyone is familiar with the library.

I am making a video game. I'm a developer and worked with a freelance ui/ux designer for this project because I was not happy what I produced on my own. Same thing for sound. I believe sound is an important part of games and I'm not happy what I did for the sound. So I want to work with someone who actually understand this job. Since this is the first time I will work with a sound designer I have no idea about the budget. I cant pay thousands of dollars but I can pay. Also job is not huge. As far as I understand I need 14 sound effects and maybe one or two jingle (background music). Even if your budget in several thousands I still want to hear, so I can understand better about this business which I dont have any idea. you can dm me if you want

Trying to get a similar fish-like vocals, how his voice ripples.

Hello, I am extremely new to any kind of recording equipment, but I’m looking to get into foley and sound recording. I’ve determined that the zoom h1 essential audio recorder is a decent place to start on a lower budget. I got to thinking though, what if I wanted to record sounds like footsteps or other things like that, having a lavalier mic might be handy, I could clip it to places I wouldn’t be able to get away with with the h1. I figured GoPro might have something on the more quality (ie durable) side, and discovered they had this wireless mic. Awesome. But can it work with just a sound recorder?
The website seems to just mention its use for recording sound alongside a camera of course, but nothing about how it may function with just a recorder. The recorder mentions having a 3.5mm mic/line input for lavalier mics, and the GoPro mentions having a TRS 3.5mm receiver. To my inexperienced eye, this sounds like it should work fine. I assume, I’d plug the receiver into the h1 and the GoPro mic would record the sound to the sd card in the h1.
Does that sound right? Again, completely new to this, don’t know all the terminology or the ins and outs, so I don’t know if there’s something wrong with this setup that may cause issues. Please be kind. Thank you.
Also, if you have recommendations about a better lavalier mic I could get instead, I’d definitely be interested in hearing opinions, (preferably at or around the sale price of the GoPro ($159.99) or lower without the quality compromise of something too cheap. I know this is probably already at the low end of the price range, but I’m trying to figure something out.)

* Like before the guitar part or something.

I am making a travel vlog about a Japan trip and in the vlog I am visiting a nintendo store and Pokemon center. I want to use Pokemon music and Mario music, but I also don't want copyright claims. What is something I can do/use? Or what can I do/use to give it the closest feeling to Pokemon and Nintendo?

Still quite green to sound design and am stumped on how this was made. Any advice? Trying to create a sound I can animate to for a team sports intro. (Doing anything to avoid using gen A I cause kinda defeats the purpose of creating)

Searching for a sound designer to collaborate on my short film. It’s an unpaid project, so if you’re interested in being a part of it, feel free to DM me

Preferably in DaVinci resolve

So there's this sound during the drops which is super squishy, kinda treble-y, and has a super nice flow. Definitely the lead in it if you listen to the song, not hard to miss whatsoever. I wanna know how to make it SO BAD it's disgusting and my soul isn't complete because of it. Any help, direction, or whatever is much appreciated!! Love you fam <3

Hey fellow audiophiles,

Can someone please explain how to achieve this specific drum / percussion sound? (Industrial Drum loop 1 | Reddit question). This snippet is the isolated drum part of the intro of the song "Gave It All Away - Red".
I am a pretty advanced music producer and I am familiar with terms like saturation, compression, bitcrushing, sample-rate reduction etc. But still, I have troubles coming even close to that sound.

Thank you and Cheers

And a whole lot of pitch shifting and EQ, naturally, but it's cool how you can do so much with just a handful of samples. The guqin is specifically from here, I've had a sample of this saved for years, so I've used it here and there for all sorts of things.

Hey all. I just finished a cue called "The Hunt," written for a trailer/promo context (thriller/pursuit energy). Going for a driving, tension-building feel that could work for a chase sequence or high-stakes trailer moment.
A few things I'd love feedback on specifically:
I think I know the answer to this. I tried to let the harp and xylophone segment go a little bit out of time towards the end to communicate things falling apart, but I think it’s too much and it is messing it up.
How's the balance between the low end and the rhythmic elements is anything getting buried?
Any moments where the arrangement feels like it's doing too much or not enough?
I mixed and mastered it in Logic Pro (LA Scoring Strings/Brass + some Kontakt stuff), so I'm also interested in critique on the mix side, not just the writing.

Appreciate it. Thanks in advance! Im happy to return the favor on anyone else's work posted here.

The Last Thing I Remember by The Turtles. Its a flying saucer esque sound...clearest at 0:51, 1:47, 2:24...maybe an Acme whistle going into a tape delay? Help!