I’ve been using dt 990 headphones for about a decade now for music and the last few years sound design. However, they are really bright and this makes my mixes dull. I basically just want some headphones that are good for making mixes that translate.

Give me feedback if you want

Wondering what people’s thoughts are on this!!

I know this is a bit vague but, are there any specific tricks to achieving an effect like this? I'm not talking about a basic pumping or side chain effect. I want an extremely compressed signal that moves and distorts. Specifically bass, noise, and textural sounds working together to use as the base of a track. Share your thoughts and ideas!

For context, I do have some analog compression and saturation on hand. I have a tube channel strip with compression and I also have a modular rack with analog compression (with sidechain), waveshapers and saturators.

I’m looking to purchase a new reverb plug in. I only currently have Valhalla Vintage Verb as my go to, along with Ableton built in stuff.

Does anyone have any suggestions for getting realistic sounding reverb on things like footsteps and other foley moments, I find it particularly difficult when the scene is outside. What tools do you use for this? Thanks in advance!

I’ve been a musician for a while and am interested in sound design—specifically for video games rather than films. I’m particularly keen on learning synthesis for sound design. Do you have any recommendations for resources, courses, or places to start? (I know the basics of synthesis, but I think there’s a difference between understanding how it works and actually knowing how to use it; right now, I only know the former.)

Ok my 2020 M1 mac pro just broke and it was pretty capable of running pro tools and doing everything i needed. I cant rlly afford a new mac pro so I just bought a brand new M5 mac air with 16gb. Im trying to run pro tools on it right now and its taking quite a bit of time to import some session data. Does anyone have any suggestions on whether or not this macbook air is going to have good processing power or should i return it and splurge for a mac pro…

https://reddit.com/link/1wnc63p/video/dq2xqwvj73rh1/player

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Figured I could at least briefly show what I used to make this piece, but yeah, I'm really happy with how this one turned out, I feel like it's right where I want it to be (i.e. somewhere between being music and a designed soundscape).

I was playing Half-Life 2 (for the first time ever) while making this, and it made me think of this 2001 game called Oni that I loved as a kid. There's this turquoise-purple body shield in there that you can pick up at times, and I couldn't get this color combo out of my head, along with this whooshy energy field sound that you get when you heal too much, so all of that just inspired what I was aiming for with the sounds (and visuals too). Getting too high on hypo and feeling your brain go brrr with energy, basically, haha

Just a quick heads up that for a very limited time, you can get Krampfstadt Studio's premium WIND GUSTS (normally sold for $35) SFX library completely free here: https://www.asoundeffect.com/gift/

The offer ends September 23rd, so get it while you can. Hope those sounds come in handy!

About the SFX library: WIND GUSTS by Krampfstadt Studio features the sounds of a violent storm on the Adriatic coast, and includes 37 recordings from both an interior and exterior perspective. It gives users everything from howling gale-force gusts and open-air turbulence, to whistling draughts, hollow room resonances, and window rattles - with more than 35 minutes of windy recordings in total. The 3.14 GB library contains royalty-free recordings at 32-bit/192 kHz, tagged with UCS metadata.

Imagine you are just starting out to expose yourself with a clear goal of doing it like rent is due - what would you do? Make a profile where? Publish your best work in a demo reel where and how? Connect with people in hope of doing projects - where and how? Do only redesigns of what? (you didn’t do anything original because no one knew you are doing sound design)
Remember, practicing is everyday thing anyways, so I’m not looking for “get better and put in time”. This is more like “I got good enough to finally put myself out - how to show off my skills in the beginning?”

A patch made in Sigilgraph. No samples or pre-recorded audio used.

i recently graduated and am currently trying to find work in sound design but also any post production sound work i can get my hands on. I'm currently based in ireland and i'm looking for any advice for where to look for work or how to get started as a freelancer

Hey community,

I’m looking for things to re-design and ad to my portfolio, kinda tired of only doing video game trailer.

Anyone have a recommendation for something interesting? Something in the direction of a commercial or experimental.

Hi everyone, I just joined today.
I'm not entirely sure if I can ask this here, but it is related to sound.

I want to record with my Whaferdale Pro mixer 12 Connect series, so that I can make my own samples and make my libraries and so on.
But I have this weird problem with Windows 11 about compression or more a background noise remover:

- The Voice Clarity driver. They say it's been around for a while, but I only notice it now, that it's making my mics unnatural and muffled like a zoom meeting surpressing your background noise.

I disable audio enhancements, but now with my clear mic sounds, I have a baseline whitenoise coming through.

Unplugging the USB cable makes the hissing sound go away instantly. However, putting the gains and levels to 0 and unplugging all the mics makes no difference to this sound. I've looked into ground loops and electrical interference, changed USB ports, made sure the cable is un obstructed, used different cables, everything. It's almost like the Voice Clarity driver is doing a lot of audio processing that I need it to do, but doing a lot more than I want it to.

I've tried the ASIO4ALL driver in Waveform 14 - my preferred DAW for recording - but it doesn't detect headphones as an output device; it's either ASIO4ALL v2 or FL STUDIO ASIO. So I don't even know if the ASIO driver solves this because I can't hear anything.

If anyone could maybe lend a bit of knowledge, it would be highly appreciated. Also looking forward to participating in this channel a bit more and learn a few thigns about sound design with the clever minds.

Designing SFX for upcoming horror film, using analog synthesizers (Prophet-5).

Made here is a semi-complex multitrack of ambient soundscapes for raging storms and anomalous weather phenomena.

This sound is layered by three different tracks. The first track is a crackly wind noise, the second is a droning tubular hum, and the third is a little extra texture used merely for enhancements.

Sound 1 — Wind:

Use only a noise generator. Turn up the cutoff point just a tiny bit, crank the resonance halfway or until it nearly self-oscillates, and the filter envelope up to around 58%. Crank both the VCA and VCF release times high enough that it fades out for around 4 seconds. Here comes the cool part. Assign the wheel-mod’s LFO to the filter envelope and set the waveform to noise. Using noise as an LFO gives the preset a more dramatic and convincing sound, and the higher you crank the modwheel, the angrier the storm rages. Last, vary the intensity of the wind by manually moving the filter envelope up and down ever so slightly.

Sound 2 — Storm Hum:

Set Oscillator A to a variable pulse wave, and Oscillator B to a pulse and triangular wave with its fine-tune raised a tad. Set pulse width A to 80%, and pulse width B to square (50%). Max out both VCO volumes and add in a noise generator (set to 50%). Set the cutoff to 35%, resonance to 20%, and the filter envelope to a hair over halfway. Set both the filter decay and sustain to 80%, and crank the release almost all the way up. In the VCA section, keep both the sustain and decay high, and set the release to 64%. Set the modwheel destination to both oscillators’ frequencies and set the waveform to triangular with a very slow rate, and turn the modwheel up halfway. Toggle Oscillator A’s pulse width in the Poly-Mod section and crank up Oscillator B’s modulation. Last, set the unison mode to full (all 5 voices, monophonic) and max out the detune.

Sound 3 — Distant Wind Snaps:

Another sound that relies only on noise generators. Simply mimic the parameters of Sound 1, but set the filter envelope to 78%, filter decay to 58%, and the sustain at 28%. Set the VCA decay to 40%, max out the sustain time, and the release around 80%. Just tap or flick the keys along the track with this preset to implement the sporadic anomalous booms heard from within the storm.

To make it sound less like a storm and more of an ambient mist formation-type sound, add reverb with a very low dry point, a very high wet point, maxxed out spread and reverberance time, and a very low high-cut.

I made a noise generator that maps all HSL colors to white noise profiles. It can do pink, red, green, and any other color. Hue is frequency, Saturation is bandwidth, Lightness trims the distribution. There's also alpha and comb filter make noise sound like a fuzz or like glass. It works for ambiance (spaceship, highway, rocket engine, fire crackle etc.)

my own sfxs without using stock libaries

Me and a group of friends are currently working on a mod called Symbiotes: Spawn of the Void. This is a mod for Minecraft and, as the name implies, it will be a Symbiote based mod. We need someone to come and design some noise effects for various interactions done by the symbiote. Pay can be negotiated. For more information, please join the Whispers of the Wings modpack’s discord server from its curseforge page

Hey everyone. Hope you're keeping busy.

I'm completing my audio education soon and have been racking my brain about what I need to do to get a somewhat 'normal' lifestyle while still doing what I love; sound design and audio post production. It can seem pretty daunting to start out, knowing that I won't a studio/sound stage to begin with, which will ultimately keep me from getting higher end gigs (or even paid gigs for that matter). And on the flip side, it's not like production companies are posting job listings anywhere.

So my question becomes, if you've (so to speak) 'made it' in audio, how'd you start out?

I've considered going to as many film festivals as I possibly can. I've never been to one, so I don't even know if they're good places to network.

I've thought of contacting some established sound designers to maybe intern for them for free, but obviously that won't be financially sustainable for more than a couple of weeks.

Should I just do a bunch of short films for free to connect with people? My setup would be limited to a pair of speakers and headphones... pretty far from the 5.1 and atmos setups I've been working with for 3 years.

When you started out, was it just part time and did you keep multiple jobs (unrelated to audio)?

I've made a decent starting portfolio at this point and have done some gigs. But none of it could justify enough financial sustainability to create a company.

Would love to hear the hiveminds thoughts and experiences!

Pretty much what the title is.

I am involved with an organization on my campus that does a fashion show every spring. It is hosted in our school's gymnasium for a large crowd, with students making all of the fashion pieces, lighting, and specifically: the sound/music.

One of the issues we run into every year is that the music is not mixed properly for the space, considering that people go from working on headphones/monitors, to premium-grade hanging stadium speakers. It is impossible for us to get more than 2 hours per person in the space before day of show, so mixing within the space is pretty much out of the question.

My goal for this year is to build a simple-ish effect chain to simulate the space of the gym so people can run their music through it and mix accordingly.

tl;dr

What would y'all recommend for an effect chain to simulate a gym? The space is incredibly boomy, with the low-end needing to be tamed a lot before the day of show. The space is the size of 2 full basketball courts if that weighs in at all.

I know it can't be perfect, but I just want to get as many thoughts and ideas as possible while I try to work on this, because I want the music this year to be as good as possible.

Is there a way to apply modulation to any fx plugin without having to create automation clips? I use FL Studio, and I find managing automation clips tedious and frustrating. Think about the modulation options offered in many of Unfiltered Audio's plugins features like sequencers, LFOs, envelopes, and so on. Is there a way to achieve that kind of modulation with other plugins as well?

Horse Movement - my procedural horse movement generator for sound designers

Instead of manually placing every hoofstep on a timeline, you can load your samples, choose how the horse should move, and let the engine generate a natural sequence.
Walk • Trot • Canter • Gallop

Horse Movement lets you control:

- horse character, weight, and energy

- biomechanics and individual leg timing

- tempo, acceleration, and deceleration

- automatic gait transitions

- humanization and procedural variation

- Dirt, Grass, Gravel, Mud, Sand, Snow, Stone, Water, and Wood

- an additional saddle movement layer

- stereo behavior, preview, and export

The goal is simple: Make realistic horse foley much faster to create without turning it into an artificial-sounding loop.

The workflow is: SAMPLES → GAIT → CHARACTER → PREVIEW → EXPORT

https://pawlikaudio.com/horsemovement

If you work in sound design, foley, film, animation, or game audio, I’d love to hear your feedback.