Boom Box Post co-owner, Jeff Shiffman sat down with Cory Stillman from Awards Radar to chat about working on the Prime Video series Invincible and more!
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Season’s greetings to all of you editors, mixers, engineers, recordists, professionals, prosumers, students, freelancers, and everyone in between. Whether you’re aiming to dazzle a certain individual in your life who is passionate about sound/post production, or if you’re a professional in the sound industry finding it difficult to put together your holiday wish list, worry not, we’ve got you sorted!
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To celebrate Halloween in a gruesome style, we decided to do part two of: Death by Sound Effect. We came up with a cause of death and put our editors to the task to create a gross, gruesome sound build. Let’s see what they came up with!
Boom Box Post owner, Jeff Shiffman, was invited to be on the Fan Favorites panel at San Diego Comic Con to give insight on his work in Transformers: EarthSpark. Jeff and five other creative minds behind some of the biggest TV and movie projects reveal how they bring fan-favorite stories to life.
Did you enjoy What’s That Sound part 1, 2, and 3? Let’s see if you can guess what sounds we have come up with this time! Listen carefully!
Post Perspective recently wrote an article featuring an interview with one of Boom Box Post’s owners, Kate Finan. Kate is a re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor, and co-founder of Boom Box Post, a boutique animation-specific sound studio located in Burbank, CA. Post Perspective chatted with Kate about Gabby’s Dollhouse and the specific steps relating to the audio post process.
Tonebenders, a podcast featuring a collective of sound design professionals sharing their thoughts, ideas, and stories, recently released a podcast featuring an interview with our two owners, Jeff Shiffman and Kate Finan. Tonebenders chatted with Jeff and Kate about their experience of transforming a former auto body shop into a brand new multi-room audio post facility.
No Film School recently released an article featuring an interview with our two owners, Jeff Shiffman and Kate Finan. No Film School chatted with Kate and Jeff about the goals within Boom Box Post. This includes hiring men, women, and non-binary at a 50/50 level, education within the studio, and their paid apprenticeship program which contains weekly lessons and real-world feedback from members of the staff. Jeff and Kate also chat about their experience building their own sound studio from a former auto shop.
Animation World Network recently wrote an article and interviewed Kate Finan, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor, and co-founder with Jeff Shiffman of Boom Box Post, a boutique animation-specific sound studio located in Burbank, CA. They chat about sexism within the industry and their way on how to create an enviorment that strives for 50 percent women and gender non-conforming as well as 50 percent male. This was a founding goal of Boom Box that Finan and Shiffman reached within the first couple years.
Last year, we published two blogs that listed classic cartoon sound effects and the emotion they convey to the audience. In those posts, we outlined the toony sounds we associate with happiness, anger, sadness, humor, scared, disgust, love, and boredom. Toon sound effects have been provoking emotion for decades. With so many classic toon sounds to choose from, how does one know which to use? Our hope is these blog posts help those stuck in their sound editorial from having to sift through their entire sound library looking for the perfect sound. You can read part one HERE and part two HERE!
We have a new Assistant Editor at Boom Box Post! It is our pleasure to introduce you to Mia!
Lunch and Learns are a staple tradition here at Boom Box. These monthly meetings are chances for the team to learn from one another and explore different topics in sound and post production. We have done many Lunch and Learns since Boom Box’s inception ranging from plugin tutorials, to recording techniques, to tips for leading a team of editors.
Focusrite recently wrote an article about Boom Box Post and our integration of the Focusrite Red and Red Net system in our studio. The Focusrite Red Net system is the backbone of our mix facility, allowing us to transition from Dolby Atmos to 5.1 surround and stereo, all within the controller.
Check out the article now on the Focusrite website.
If you would like to learn more about how our Dolby Atmos mix stages were built from the ground up, be sure to visit our friends at Westlake Pro to read their article or check out our past blog post, Building a Dolby Atmos Mix Stage.
Whether you are a newly graduated student or you are a long time picture editor looking to delve more into sound, jumping into the freelance world can be intimidating. You might have some money saved up and are wondering where to allocate it to best help you freelance career. After securing a decent computer and a Pro Tools subscription it can be easy to fall into the mindset that you need the newest shiniest plugin or the fanciest piece of hardware. While plugins and gear are nice to have and can indeed help you, finding quality sound effect libraries to add to your personal sound collection is perhaps a more worthwhile endeavor.
We recently brought on a new Boom Box apprentice. It is our pleasure to introduce Isabel Roney! We had a chance to ask her a few questions to better get to know her. Continue reading to get to know her better.
Happy Holidays to all of you editors, mixers, engineers, recordists, professionals, prosumers, students, freelancers, and everyone in between. Whether you want to impress a special sound/post production person in your life or you work in the sound world and are having trouble filling out your holiday wish list we have you covered!
When we decided to take the plunge and build a brand new studio from the remnants of an old auto body shop, what started as a simple gear list quickly evolved into a studio with multiple Dolby Atmos-ready mix stages. We had the pleasure of working with the stellar team at Westlake Pro in helping us make our initial concepts into a reality. Our new Boom Box Post studio includes three Atmos mix stages, three 5.1 surround sound suites, eight production suites, and a multitude of client amenities. If you are curious how this all came to be, we highly recommend going to our friends at Westlake Pro’s website and reading their article. They dive into greater detail on their process and the gear needed to make it work!
Recently we published a blog that listed classic toon sound effects and the emotion they convey to the audience. Our hope was that it would be a helpful tool for anyone stuck in the editorial process. This is part 2! Continue reading to find out how our editors approach the following emotions with classic toon sound effects: Scared, Disgust, Love, and Bored.
A radioplay is a vital step exclusive to the animation pipeline; however, there is a lot more to the process than simply editing one together. In this post we outlines the basics of a radioplay and their importance in the production workflow.
At Boom Box Post, since we focus in sound for animation, I thought it would be helpful to create a list of classic toon sound effects and the emotion typically associated with them. In this post, we will be focusing on the following: happiness, anger, sadness, and humor.