Our final film sound project required us to replace all the sound in a 3-5 minute sequence (music, sound effects, ADR, foley).  There was also a requirement to come up with a musical part on our own.  I chose a sequence from the tv show LOST. Final...

The next project for my Foothill College film sound class required us to construct a soundscape using only audio (no music or dialogue).  This soundscape should represent a physical...

This is my first project from the film sound class I took spring 2011: We were tasked with creating a shortened sequence for this scene.  The dialogue could be arranged in a different way to give the scene a different feel.  This is really my first...

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My final project for Foothill MUS81D (Pro Tools and Plugins) involved taking a found sound and turning it into a sound effect or synth sound that can be pitched with a sampler and manipulated using plugins. I got the idea to do this from a youtube...

When we renovated our house last year, I was trying to think of every possible audio connection that might be needed.  I even had a 50-60 ft rca audio cable running from my studio to the amplifier by our family room TV that runs all the speakers to the...

I thought I would try using the gate to get rid of the background noise as I had suggested in the "Picket Fence" recording.  This was another recording of a stick on a metal post Jamie and I were hitting.  I was surprised with how well it worked,...

Here's my first attempt at a field recording.  I was playing with my son Jamie at a park along Alma in Palo Alto.  We were running around and decided to pick up some branches and hit the fence with them.  I thought the wood on metal fence sound was...

This is quite a learning experience at every turn. Last night, I am finally ready to upload some audio files to the blog/site, and of course I run into to file issues.  I first discover that contrary to what I thought, I don't have to use Soundcloud...

I stumbled on Paul Stretch a year ago and kind of forgot about it.  This open source program was fun to play with but didn’t have any practical application to what I was doing…until now! You can create these crazy atmospheric effects and...