UPDATE (October 4, 2017): Congratulations to our lucky winner, Balakesavan Shanmugam of Chennai, India! We hope you enjoy your copy of our September sound effects collection release, HD – Extreme Sci Fi! Sound Ideas is excited to announce that we will be running a Back-To-School giveaway during the month of September. Who Can Enter? This […]
Tag: Sound Design
Sound Designer Interview: Daniele Carli
Daniele Carli is a sound designer with a large and impressive list of credits to his name, including 90 Minutes in Heaven, Swing State, The Bounce Back, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Destiny 2 and many more. We had the chance to ask him a couple questions on his career so far! First of all, […]
Freelance or Full-Time Employee? Sound Designer Edition
Freelance or full-time employee? This question has been coming up a lot more these days. People have a lot more options for their work life than ever before. While some love the stability and routine of working for someone else, others are finding that the standard 9-to-5 just doesn’t appeal to them. When it comes […]
You Can’t Get Away From Sound Design
Sound design is everywhere in our daily lives. Most people know about the more obvious mediums for sound design like TV shows, movies and video games. But sound design is actually used in much more subtle mediums as well. You know that sound your car makes when you aren’t wearing your seat belt? A sound […]
Adventures in Surround Sound
Guest Author: James Fensom Hey! My name is James, and I’m a recording engineer at Sound Ideas. For the past year, I’ve been recording ambiences in 5.1. Equipped with the DPA 5100 Mobile Surround Microphone and a Sound Devices 788T, I have travelled throughout urban, rural, indoor, outdoor, and natural environments to capture everyday ambient […]
Interview with Kevin Munro, Sound Engineer
For this week’s blog post, we wanted to give you a little insight into the day-to-day life of a Sound Ideas’ Sound Engineer. Luckily, Kevin Munro (one of the Sound Engineers at Sound Ideas) had some spare time to sit down with us to answer a few questions. SI: What drew you to the […]
How To Record Animals
Certain recording sessions go smoother than others, but in our experience we have found that any session that has animals involved is always going to be a challenge. Over the years, Sound Ideas has done quite a few sessions with animals, so drawing on our hands on experience; we have put together some tips that […]
Recording Military Tanks
Here at Sound Ideas, you never know what is going to happen next in relation to our recording sessions. From the more mundane sessions like the sound of gift paper being unwrapped, to the more extreme sessions of recording explosions. Once you have worked here for a while, you learn to expect the unexpected. When […]
Recording Equipment – On Location Setup
To get quality sound effects you have to use quality equipment to record it. The type of equipment used depends heavily on the type of sound effect you want to record. If it is a specific solitary sound, like a glass breaking, then in order to record it you need a clean environment where no […]
Recording Destruction
We learn early on to be careful with material things that are fragile, like glass cups, or ceramic figurines. As you continue to grow up you know that to make something last you have to take care of it, make sure it doesn’t get damaged. It is so deeply ingrained into us, that when we […]