4 Lethal Ambience & Room Tone Truths
Ambiences and Room Tone tracks are some of the most misunderstood aspects of audio mixing there are. Worse, they get confused as the same thing or the other thing, and…
Review: Zoom H2N
Until we started shooting the Cinema Sound education in Texas, I had no knowledge of the H2N from Zoom. I’d always wished for some easy solution for surround recording, but…
4.5 Things You Learned Wrong In Film School
Sure. You spent four years in film school and learned a ton. Trouble is, many times film schools these days are more committed to taking your money than giving you…
4 Fabulous Foley Fixes
Foley is Fun. Foley is Frustrating. Foley is Fundamental. Foley must be done in order to create the fifty million dollar impact you're project deserves. Tweet: If immersion is the…
AA's Surround Convolution Reverb is one of the best.
Review: Audition Convolution Reverb
There is a vast array of reverb plugins available to the modern filmmaker. As we've discussed in previous articles, knowing how to test for great value among reverbs is critical.…
Ben Burtt with his keyboard.
The Audition MIDI Hack for Sound Effects
One of the current frustrations using Adobe Audition is the lack of any MIDI implementation outside of controllers. In this article I'll show you an Audition MIDI Hack which can…
Axanar sound effects
7 Sound Effects Secrets for Sci-Fi
While it's true that there is no sound in space, making silent space dramas ended with Kubrick in 2001. Sound Effects Secrets (or its creation) are the basis for world-building…
6 Things You Do Which Kill Post Production: Part 2
This is the second part of this article. In this part we cover ADR, Editorial mixing and False Economy. #4: Doing ADR instead of Looping What's ADR? It's the process of…
6 Things You Do Which Kill Post Production: Part 1
Production resources are precious. Post Production resources are even more so. Many independent productions fail to plan their post production expecting it to all just "work out." Whether from lack…
The Mixing Tweeze: Macbeth Sequence
For the purposes of education, we shot five short films for the Pro Members Education. These consisted of an action sequence, a scene on the beach, a scene in a…
