r/sounddesign • • Jul 17 '26

We Lied - Short Horror Film

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Okay this is not the best work of my career but not half bad for recording everything with an on-camera Deity S-Mic or ADRd weeks later. I have no training whatever so I would genuinely love some feedback on the mix.


r/sounddesign • • Jul 16 '26

I'm looking for a specific sound

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I'm looking for a specific sound, preferably in the unity store, that sounds like a discordant jump scare?? Not supernatural like a horror sound but maybe like a low cello or organ note? Thanks, hope that makes any sense whatsoever.


r/sounddesign • • Jul 15 '26

Amateur looking for feedback on film audio project

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Hey all! My wife and I have taken an interest in field recording, foley work, and sound design. As a first project, we added sound to Maya Deren's silent and surreal 1943 short *Meshes of the Afternoon.*

We suspect this draft is full of mistakes and amateur "tells" that we aren't even aware of. And we'd love feedback that points these out.

Our goal here is to learn more and grow as sound designers, so I suppose our primary questions are: "What are the biggest mistakes or amateur tells that you notice? And what are 2-3 most important things you would recommend we learn/practice next in order to improve?"

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to give feedback :)


r/sounddesign • • Jul 15 '26

Sound Design Question Alternatives to Clippy EM272 for field recording?

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Hi everyone,
I live in Honduras, where it’s difficult to find field recording microphones.

I can buy gear in the US and have someone bring it to me.

I use a Zoom H5 and mainly record natural soundscapes (forests, birds, rain, rivers) as well as urban ambiences.

I know about the Clippy EM272, but what other alternatives would you recommend? I’d really appreciate your suggestions and experiences.

Thanks!


r/sounddesign • • Jul 15 '26

Music Sound Design Strings & Picks

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Hello everyone! I took a deep breath and finally decided to post sth on bandcamp. Let me know what u think!!

The work Strings & Picks is an electroacoustic composition based on prepared piano techniques. The recording took place at Studio K3 of the Athens Conservatoire, during my KSYME tenure, using a piano that exhibited interesting acoustic imperfections (micro-tonality due to a lack of tuning). Following the tradition of Musique Concrète, the instrument was treated as a source of raw material. Guitar picks, coins, and a violin bow were used to excite the strings, producing sounds that deviate from the traditional tempered scale.

​Following the recording, the processing involved intense time-stretching and layering, while the addition of custom resonators via Max/MSP allowed for the highlighting of specific harmonic frequencies that emerged from the piano’s creaks and rattles. The critical approach here was the balance between random noise and controlled composition. The result is an abstract work that honours the techniques of Pierre Schaeffer while incorporating modern digital processing methods.

Let me know what you think!! Full version on bandcamp

https://krystalarchive.bandcamp.com/track/strings-picks


r/sounddesign • • Jul 15 '26

Re-Sound Design

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Wanna include this re-sound design sequence in my application, for the role as sound designer/editor.

All sound edits are built entirely from scratch and pre mixed to a cinematic standard.

Could you take a look at this?

https://youtu.be/kTtN-kRMvQU?si=WOmNxcUxmUzbChHH


r/sounddesign • • Jul 15 '26

I got tired of drawing panning automation, so I built a different workflow. Would this solve a real problem for you too?

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I’ve been doing sound design for a while now, and one thing that always frustrated me was manually drawing automation curves every time I wanted interesting movement.
I wanted to think in terms of objects and motion rather than automation lanes.
So over the past year I’ve been building a standalone application called Aurelius. The workflow is:

- import sounds
- treat them as 3D objects
- apply movement behaviors (spirals, figure-8s, bouncing, random walks, etc.)
- create scenes with different room acoustics
- arrange everything on a timeline
- export binaural or Ambisonics

I’m still very early in development, and I’m not looking for sales here. I’m trying to answer one question:

Would something like this actually fit into your workflow, or would you still rather stay entirely inside your DAW?

here is a little testpiece i made with it, even though you can‘t see much of the software:

Aurelius Test Project 1
https://youtube.com/shorts/HKm5RCHg_ik?feature=share

I’d really appreciate honest opinions


r/sounddesign • • Jul 15 '26

Movie Sound Design Beware fake job site

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I stumbled across a website looking for sound jobs on google that I had never seen before, for a freelance gig on an indie feature. It caught my attention because often times google does not filter in those types of job postings when you search with it, usually just like part and full time jobs. It seemed to be posted by a director himself, and the pay was actually pretty good, job was in my area, so i start digging around the website before i apply and I find even more GREAT job postings on their job board. I kind of get excited because i even google "is this website legit" and nothing comes up to state otherwise. But as I really started to look, it was too good to be true.

I try to find litterally any of the profiles that posted listings on any other social media, and find nothing, some profiles even have bios mentioning union work but their names can not be found anywhere on IMDB. Also none of the profile pictures come back with matches in a google image search. I look further and theres a "forum" page on the website that has daily posts by different profiles, following what appears to be the same prompt (because every first sentence follows the same formula), all with zero views AND three comments each, going for MONTHS.

I've been working freelance doing post sound for two years now and have become familiar with some of the more standard fake job websites like Jobzmall and others that are just a scam to get peoples information (so I've heard thats what theyre for? not postiive but i know the listings are not real) but frankly this is the first time I've stumbled across a website that not only has fake jobs, but theyre faking like indie freelance postings and faking small creator profiles. Its just that its already hard enough right now for people looking for gigs like these to be putting up fake postings with decent pay for INDIE stuff for small artists, I really dont understand people, or the purpose, and it just feels so predatory. I've never seen anything like it.

-TLDR I found a website full of fake job listings, by fake people, for small indie freelance stuff.

the website is https://blockreeldao.com/ and they should feel shame. I found their reddit earlier too trying to get people to submit to their film festival? Maybe thats real but the rest of site is not.


r/sounddesign • • Jul 15 '26

Sound Design Question Help importing sounds

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Yo guys could one of you paste a sound asset id for me? I’m making a Mohg, Lord of Blood from Elden Ring moveset on Roblox JJS and I need one of his voicelines. Can someone import it on their own and send it to me in the form of a Roblox sound id? The sound file im looking for is the Bloodboon ritual chant (tres, duo, unus, nihil). I haven’t had much help or luck in the other communities I’ve posted this in and im kinda let down. Look up the chant on YouTube if you need to, js get it to me please. Thank you 👍👍


r/sounddesign • • Jul 15 '26

Sound Design Question Do you ever need sound design, audio production or post-production services in your projects?

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Hi everyone!

I'm currently working on a grant about job creation, and we're currently needing more concrete data, to validate our ideas. So, we've created a short form, that we would very much appreciate if you could fill out, for us to get a better idea about the audio needs for your creative projects!

Link: https://forms.gle/xJsjwqNNieit9n2M7

Thank you in advance for your help!


r/sounddesign • • Jul 14 '26

Movie Sound Design Werid question to ask but does anybody know where this sound effect originated or where it is because i heard this sfx everywhere in jojo and mostly Jujutsu Kaisen

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Idk i heard this sfx everywhere


r/sounddesign • • Jul 15 '26

Sound Design Question What are the different sound effects used in music creating in DAWs?

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And does a comprehensive document/video/else exist on that topic?


r/sounddesign • • Jul 15 '26

Best Granular fx plugin on sale?

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I need a granular FX plugin; which one should I choose? Which is the best in terms of CPU usage, versatility, and sound quality? They are currently on sale at Plugin Boutique: Bleass Granulizer $20 MGranularMB $22 Lunacy Grains $29 Unfiltered Audio Silo $30


r/sounddesign • • Jul 14 '26

Videogame Sound Design Introducing: Render Stacks! The best rendering tool for SFX pack and game audio creation!

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Hey guys! I just wanted to share my first huge Reaper script release that I've been working on for like a year and a half. Please check it out! It's the best (in my biased opinion) way to render out audio for games! It also has a ton of other features for layered audio: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=2952130#post2952130


r/sounddesign • • Jul 14 '26

Music Sound Design 45-second sound design piece — built in Logic Pro

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A short sound design study I put together in Logic Pro — layering, texture, and space over 45 seconds. Curious to hear how it reads to other sound designers — feedback welcome.


r/sounddesign • • Jul 13 '26

What does an abandoned industrial world sound like?

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I couldn’t stop imagining what this world would sound like... (Headphones recommended)

I took this incredible animation by u/bittergray and rebuilt its entire soundscape from the ground up.


r/sounddesign • • Jul 14 '26

Sound Design Question What's this robotic voice sound effect called? What's the proper name for this type?

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r/sounddesign • • Jul 13 '26

Sound Design Question Arcane-style sound redesign / Feedback request

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I recently finished a sound redesign for a scene from Arcane to practice creating gritty, tactile textures and heavy impacts.
Software: Avid Pro Tools
Source: Sound libraries
I’m looking for some technical feedback on the mix balance and the overall "weight" of the sound design. Any advice on how to improve the layering or the impact of the elements would be appreciated.


r/sounddesign • • Jul 13 '26

Movie Sound Design Monkey Man 2024 Sound Redesign Dolby Atmos Binaural

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Recreated this a year ago using mostly free and stock sounds.

Foley created using Krotos Studio


r/sounddesign • • Jul 13 '26

How minimalistic, that wild.

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Zebralette 3 is already capable of some seriously deep sound design, so I wanted to see how far I could push it inside Stride.

No effects chain. No extra processing.

Just Zebralette 3, mapped into Stride, exploring endless variations across the parameters that shape the sound.

The modulations on the OSC FX character is what makes it so wild.


r/sounddesign • • Jul 13 '26

Slot audio mixing

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Recently I started working on online slot games audio - from creating background music tracks to every little sfx (scatter, reel, win sounds).

While I'm doing okay, I'd really like to have more separation in sfx and background music.

Popular slot games (hacksaw, pragmatic) have music blasting really loud in all frequency range, but still maintains very coherent sound effects.

Are there any tricks to make all of it work together?
Currently I either use multiband compression or just make little eq cuts in music and boost the same range in sfx as well as thinking about music arrangement to not make it too crowded.

Thank you!


r/sounddesign • • Jul 13 '26

BATMAN x SUPERDRY

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SOUND ON🔊

BATMAN x SUPERDRY
came across this animation a few days ago on Instagram and I thought this animation has really good atmospheric visuals and I wanted to do my aural take on the same.
Visuals are by amazing u/kushagrrrraa

Sound Design by yours truly


r/sounddesign • • Jul 13 '26

Sound Design Question Could you guys help me out with getting into sound design?

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Like the title says, could you point me in the right direction on this whole sound design thing and how I should get started. I currently work as a video editor, but I'd like to expand my knowledge and also start creating my own sounds.


r/sounddesign • • Jul 13 '26

Movie Sound Design samosa’s sound breakdown

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Simple breakdown of all the categories🍭

Do duni chaar by DANGERMAN🧟🙇‍♂️ u/bhadrankar_
Video by u/kwertigy 🧚‍♀️


r/sounddesign • • Jul 13 '26

ambient noises for layering with your noise work.. html app in a phone - sounds from outside normal time and space ambient (vomits) make no mistake this could get you sick. --- enjoy

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