Entering my final, honors year at university I am taking on a professional internship module and my project is to produce an audio book from start to finish. I thought this is a good opportunity to record and post about the process and my experiences as I go on this learning journey, it might help … Continue reading Let’s make an audiobook
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How to fix audio engine compatibility issues in Pro Tools under Windows 10
This is an other short post. I am working on a sound design showreel in Pro Tools and on certain day I take my laptop to uni so I can work on the projects between classses. Obviously, I am not carrying my audio interface with me, so in these instances I am using the internal … Continue reading How to fix audio engine compatibility issues in Pro Tools under Windows 10
How to fix Pro-Tools scaling and display issues on Windows 10
This is a very short post about how to fix Pro-Tools scaling and display issues on Windows 10. The information can be found elsewhere, but it literally took me 2-3 hours to find the relevant forum posts, so I wanted to create an extra place to find this info. The solution relates to an issue … Continue reading How to fix Pro-Tools scaling and display issues on Windows 10
More jargon busting in digital audio processing
How digital data converted to analogue sound A converter circuit should be used, named DAC (Digital to Analogue Converter). In essence it is a reversed process of the conversion from analogue to digital. It translates a binary audio data signal to analogue oscillating/ alternating electrical signal, essentially continuous voltages instead of an on/off signal. The … Continue reading More jargon busting in digital audio processing
The Cure cover track produced as part of my college work
As part of my HND level Sound Production course, we had to create a cover song from scratch. The studio work was a group effort and mixing was an induvidual affair. Our group of four has picked the "A Forrest" from The Cure and I would say shamelessly, that Mr Robert Smith should be proud, … Continue reading The Cure cover track produced as part of my college work
Audio Post Production naming convention
As I am continuing my journey in audio I have got myself into the art of audio post-production, specifically into game and animation audio. In that discipline of audio, the sound designer / editor has to work with numerous sound files. Best practice tells, to treat your audio library as a large database, which makes … Continue reading Audio Post Production naming convention
A Perfectly Sad Day – a short animation Audio Post Production
A friend of mine recently made a traditional short animation by photographing every frame individually. I thought that would be a good exercise for me to practice a bit of sound design/ audio post-production. This is the second version of it (first one will never be seen...) All the sounds are from fresound.org and edited/ … Continue reading A Perfectly Sad Day – a short animation Audio Post Production
Pro-Tools & Windows audio troubleshooting, aka how (not) to have a nightmare
I am a DAW beginner, probably even a noob. However, I feel, I can pick software products up fairly quickly, a DAW is just another one, albeit a very complex one. I have spent a couple of longer sessions over the weekend with Pro-Tools recently in order to get through some college assignments and learning … Continue reading Pro-Tools & Windows audio troubleshooting, aka how (not) to have a nightmare
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