My partner Chris has recently decided on a daily affirmation. He was going to record at least one sound every single day, and catalogue it. Well in solidarity, I have come up with my own affirmation. I will take some of the recordings that Chris captures, and process the living daylights out of them. My plan is to use only stock or freeware plug-ins. I will post up my results, and give a description of the plug-ins I used.

Hopefully more people will join the ranks of those who are producing, creating, and sharing the results with the whole community. Please send us any thoughts you might have about recording and processing sound.

In this first batch, I used the same sounds that Chris put into the player above. I started with a combination of stock plug-ins from Logic Audio 9, as well as the freeware plug in package “SoundMagic Spectral” from Michael Norris. Spectral processing can give you some wild results, and Michael Norris created a gold mine of Sound Design options.

http://www.michaelnorris.info/soundmagicspectral/index.html

Here is a list of what was used, to create spectral mangling.

1. Packing Peanuts Squeeze = VocalTransformer (Logic) and Spectral Pulsing
2. Shop Vac Hose Tones = Spectral Gate and Hold
3. Stretching Low End String = Spectral Freezing
4. Hematite Magnets = Chorus / Limiting (Logic)
5. Shop Vac Shut off = Spectral Shimmer
6. Blender Revs = Reversed the File / Spectral Bin Shift

May5th by Tom@engineaudio

Listen to the sounds here:

We here at EngineAudio have been recenltly inspired by the amazing new recordings coming from ChuckRussom at ChuckRussomFX.com and Tim Prebble at HissandaRoar.com. While we aren’t creating professional libraries for sale like those guys, we wanted to make sure we are recording at least one new sound a day.

The recordings were made with a Rode NT2 Shotgun and Zoom H4N Stereo Recorder 16bit 44.1k (will be going to 24bit/96k next week).

Here is a summary of the sounds from the past week April 25th – May 1st 2010.

1. Packing Peanuts Squeezes

2. Shop Vac Hose Tones

3. Stretching Low End String

4. Hematite Magnets Buzzes

5. ShopVac ShutOff

6. Blender Revs

A new promo video from the Tim Prebble at HissandaRoar.com. Vegetable Violence is a new sound fx library perfect for all of your Action and Horror genres. Great video but what a mess!

Jalopinik has released an excellent article on the audio guys from Turn 10 Studios, the team behind Foreza Motorsports.  They recorded engine sounds for the games over 400 unique cars. The article mentions the team used an average of 8 mics on each car, and used a dynapak roller system to allow all sounds to be captured in a garage.  They used a portable recording rig centered around using ProTools.  The team had to fly all over the country to record specific vehicles that were rare or held by collectors.  The article gives some interesting tips on how they setup and captured their engine loops. Check it out!

Inside Forza Motorsport, Part II: Making The Cars Sound Awesome

10. New Sound Actor Icons

9. Multiple Sound Slots for AmbientSounds

8. SoundGroups are now called SoundClasses

7. SoundClass Editor

6. Ambient Zones

5. Visual of Min Radius

4. Switch from OpenAL to XAudio2

3. Improved Distance Models

2. Improved Low Pass Filters

1. Content Browser