The Boom Box Post blog provides insights into the creative sound design process of Boom Box Post's owners and employees.
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As a team of audio professionals obsessed with sound, we love praising the audio tools that inspire us in our everyday work. Whether it’s a sound mangling vocal processor or the latest and greatest reverb plugin…but what about the unsung heroes of the tools we use daily: those that actually facilitate our audio post operations? Here are a handful of tools and solutions we use to successfully run our operations here at Boom Box Post!
Did you enjoy our past editions of ‘What’s That Sound?’ quizzes? Let’s see if you can guess what sounds we have come up with this time! Listen closely, good luck and have fun!
I’m addicted to markers. They help me organize, plan, and stay on schedule every episode I work on. They also serve as a visual reward where you can see the progress you’re making as you delete markers as you go. In this blog post I’ll give you some tips and tricks on how to use markers to your advantage, and give you some ideas on how it may fit into your workflow.
Awards season is here and we are SO honored to have been nominated for three Children’s and Family Emmy Awards for our sound work. We spoke with our talented team to get an inside look at the sound work for our nominees.
What’s that sound? The holidays are right around the corner! Use the provided sound effects along with the rhymes and written clues below to complete this winter holiday crossword puzzle!
As sound professionals, we always have our ears open for interesting sounds. This isn’t limited to just sound effects I can record but also interesting ways sound can interact with the spaces we inhabit. Over the years, if I find myself in an especially interesting space, I’ve made a point of recording myself clapping once, so that I can later farm that sound as an Impulse Response, recreating the space. This practice carries the same nostalgic feelings as my field recordings, but expands the idea to my mixing. I can put any Impulse Response (the clap) through a reverb plugin that will, like magic, recreate that space. You too can be out there capturing wild and interesting spaces for your work!
We recently received a request from one of our readers: “can you show me how to create a fight cloud?” Ask and you shall receive! Here’s how we approached designing the sound of a classic fight cloud!
Picking up where Kate left off back in 2015, I decided to try my hand at crafting a soundtrack that evoked the spirit of slasher movies! Including all the cliche hits like chainsaws, blood curdling screams, jump-scares and spooky forests. Take a listen!
We are always thrilled when new projects that we have worked on are released! From action packed fight scenes, to surviving kindergarten, there is something for everyone to enjoy. Here is a list of all our fall 2024 releases.
Do you know your sound terminology? Use the clues to test your skills in the crossword below! Type your answer directly into the crossword and it will turn green if correct!
Let's review a classic SFX sequence that occurs in The Loud House and The Casagrandes!
Several years ago, we created multiple blogs with keywords to help you search your sound library and find the desired effects. This year, we have combined those blogs into one comprehensive sound effects glossary, adding more key terms to assist with your project. Hopefully, this will make it easier to find all the correct sound effects you need!
We are ecstatic to announce that our sound design and mixes can now be heard on a number of new series, new seasons, and features! Here is a curated list of our spring and summer releases. Click on the links below to stream and let us know if you enjoy them!
Cold calling a company can be intimidating and daunting. However, as you look for your first job out of school, or a new job, it is often necessary. As the Boom Box Post Office Administrator, I answer all kinds of phone calls and some leave bigger, better impressions than others. I hope to give you some real world advice to help you move your call past the receptionist and onto the next level by leaving a positive impression.
It’s that time of year again! The Primetime Emmy Awards have accepted submissions and voting begins soon! We are thrilled to be submitting Invincible for both the sound editing and sound mixing categories. Check out details and get the inside scoop on our submissions below!
One of my favorite aspects of sound mixing is building up the ambient sound in the universe of each show and sculpting it all together into a cohesive sonic world. Diegetic music is one piece of the soundscape puzzle that is often misunderstood by new editors and mixers. Diegetic means that the element exists within the world of the characters, and is able to be heard or seen by them. This contrasts with the non-diegetic musical score, which exists outside of their world and is not heard by them.
It’s very rare that a sound editor will cut in a single sound effect to match a visual on screen. Usually, we’re layering multiple effects together to create something new. Why do we do this? Because the result is usually something more rich and interesting than a single effect by itself. But layering can be unnecessary and frustrating for your mixer if you don’t do it with purpose. I’d like to talk about the right and wrong ways to layer sound effects to get the most out of your editorial.
We are so proud of our clients who have been nominated for a GLAAD Award! The GLAAD Media Awards is the most visible annual LGBTQ awards show in the world, sending powerful messages of acceptance to audiences globally.
Let’s discuss distinct winter sounds to capture and enhance your sound library!
