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    Siilo. EERO PULKKINEN, TEEMU ITOLA (Whitecolors 2013) Review by David Velez No matter how funny I find the piece of jewelry attached to the USB unit containing the release data (the screw alone would have been enough), ‘Silo’ is a strong entry…

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    Flither and slipe. JAMES WYNESS (Reekin Lum 2013) Review by David Velez James Wyness’ ‘Flither and slipe’ is a successful example of the two most important formal aspects of the compositional work: 1) the search for a source of sounds to work with, and 2)…

  • Paul Virostek on SFX Databasing, Field Recording E-Book

    Paul Virostek on SFX Databasing, Field Recording E-Book

    The fourth episode of the Tonebenders sound design podcast is dedicated to talk about sound effects mastering and databasing, with a special guest: Paul Virostek, who recently released an e-book on field recording. In Episode 4, we welcome special guest…

  • Recording Ultimate Foliage

    Recording Ultimate Foliage

    Frank Bry has published a very nice post about the recording process of his newly released sfx library called Ultimate Foliage. I’ve been asked a few times, “You’re recording leaves? Why?” My short answer was because they are there. The…

  • Field Experiments: An Exclusive Interview with Richard Devine

    Field Experiments: An Exclusive Interview with Richard Devine

    You probably already heard about Richard Devine, electronic musician and sound designer known not only for working on music, but also on doing sound for short films, videogames, websites, sound libraries, synthesizers, samplers, and more. A big part of those…

  • Tim Nielsen’s Microphone Collection

    Tim Nielsen’s Microphone Collection

    Sound designer and recordist Tim Nielsen has written a great article for Designing Sound, talking about his addiction to microphones and sharing his thoughts about the following setups he uses: Schoeps MS Rig: CMC6XT Bodies with MK41 Mid and MK8…