Week 4! We dig into the art of sound design and some more advanced dialogue editing/processing techniques
PRO TIP – NEVER NEVER plug/unplug a USB device while a recording is ‘hot.’ … you’ll see I almost blow up the whole class by trying to do that on this video, ha… the webcam was plugged into a USB hub, I thought it would be fun to show you how I dig through SFX on my libraries, which are all stored on a USB hard drive… well, my Mac didn’t like when I plugged in that new device and the webcam glitched and I nearly crashed the call. Luckily it managed to keep recording (whew!) and I was able to carry on via mobile, but I very easily could have ruined everything. So, see, I’m just trying to make all of these mistakes in realtime to remind you that everyone screws things up and to help you avoid some of the (just about all that are available for options) mistakes I’ve made over the years…
Bonus vid
Ambient Reverb Bus chain tutorial (actually figured it out this time). This is the more advanced but EXTREMELY POWERFUL technique of sending dialogue and SFX submixes off to Ambient-Land to be acoustically treated as various locations.
Soapbox – setting up reverb chain – Reaper
Bonus Video 2
Sound design tips using Reaper
Soapbox – Sound Design in Reaper – some tips
Useful Stuff
some useful websites as you start your SFX and music journey! the internet is FULL of lists and recommendations, so this is really just a starting place:
- sounddogs.com – SFX website I showed, affordable rate commercial license
- kevinmacleod.com – Creative Commons (non-commercial, attribution) Music
- sessions.blue – Creative Commons (non-commercial, attribution) Music
- soundrangers.com – SFX/music website with affordable rates, commercial license
- audiojungle.net – affordable SFX/music for commercial license
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