The Boom Box Post blog provides insights into the creative sound design process of Boom Box Post's owners and employees.
We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season with their loved ones! 2019 was a great year for Boom Box Post. We got to work on so many great projects and are super proud of what we accomplished. The good thing about living in an internet/social media driven world is that a lot of the content for the shows we work on is available online and we would like to share some of that content with you. Check out below some great projects we worked on in 2019!
We hope you have a wonderful holidays with your family and friends!
I spent about five years working from home as a sound editor. In terms of life/work balance, they were some of the best years of my career. But thriving as a work from home freelancer isn’t easy. I’d like to share with you some of the best strategies and tips that helped me make the best of it.
With Christmas right around the corner, I decided to go around the office and ask what everyone wants from Santa (but audio gear only)! I thought it would be a fun way to get in the holiday spirit and give our readers on the blog some ideas if they’re looking to get gear! Check it out below.
In case you didn’t know, doing internships are GREAT. Not only are they a great way to get your foot in the door, they are also a great way to find out what you want to do. Last year when I was an intern at Boom Box, I always knew that I wanted to come back and work at Boom Box down the road. Luckily I got the opportunity a lot faster than I expected and now run the internship program! How full circle, I know! I think a lot of students in college and recent graduates know the importance of internships, but don’t know how to be a good intern. So, I’m going to give some tips on what I think makes a good intern.
From now through Cyber Monday, enjoy our biggest sale yet! This year, we’re offering 50% off everything from Boom Box Library. You don’t have to wait until Black Friday—go ahead and shop now!
We often talk on this blog about recordings we make and sound library files that we use, but rarely go into detail about how these files are prepared for use. At Boom Box Post we edit and label all of our sound recordings before adding them to the library. Different editors approach this in different ways, but here is my process for taking a good recording and turning into a great library sound effect.
At Boom Box Post, we primarily work on animated television series, which means that much of our design work is linear and lives within the context of the story. However, every once in a while we’re thrown a fantastic curveball and are asked to design for something outside of our usual sound-for-picture role.
Recently, one of our television series came to us with a design mission: to create the sounds which would be integrated into a toy based on a train which would appear in a future season of the series.
Halloween this past week at Boom Box was a major success! Jeff sucked everyone into dressing up, we ate a bunch of great food, and played some games! Check out the fun we had below :)
Happy Tuesday y’all! This week I sat down with our dialogue editor, Kirsty, to take a look at some cool things you can do in Izotope. She uses these plug-ins daily so she has a pretty good handle on it! We took three different clips from our library and used various tools from Izotope. Check it out below!
Valhalla Freq Echo is a free plugin for both Mac and Windows made by Valhalla DSP. This plugin allows you to add delay emulation as well target specific frequencies to modulate. Here's a rundown of what the plugin can do!
This week, I spoke with sound effects editor, Jessey, to take a look at a magical amulet build she created. You’re definitely going to want to check this one out!
This summer, Kate and I had an opportunity to travel to the UK to visit some animation studios in Dublin and give an industry talk in London. While in Ireland, we took traveled across the country and came back with some really great recordings. We’d like to share these with you as well as the video of our talk with the Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS). We hope you our very first Boom Box Post travelog!
In 2016, we did two very popular Glossary of Sound Effects posts. Learning keywords to use for your library can save you a ton of time. I thought it would be helpful to do a third post with a ton of new terms!
Doing blog posts on builds that our editors create is probably my favorite so I hope you enjoy this one! This week I got to sit down with sound effects editor, Peter, to check out a cool build that he did recently. Peter had a small breakfast robot that was malfunctioning to design. Let’s check it out!
Our fall interns just recently started so I figured it would be a good time to get to know them!
We’ve all heard the old adage: be the change you want to see in the world. Jeff and I take this responsibility extremely seriously. We may only be one small studio in Burbank, CA, but we are doing our best to aid in the visibility of women as smart, capable, and creative audio professionals. We sleep well at night knowing that we are giving opportunities to deserving individuals and we’re doing it in an environment of respect and appreciation.
So you can see that taking part of WAMCon was a natural extension of our company ethos. We could not be more proud that they asked us to be part of it.
As an editor for digital foley, every so often I am asked to link sweeteners for footsteps. Sometimes the footstep and the sweeteners are combined, which is more common in shows that have been established; and other times I am asked to keep them separate, which gives the mixer more control over what is heard. Since having the footstep and sweetener combined can be done by just Solo-ing the patches in Kontakt, I’m going to be focusing on the latter.
This week, I sat down with sound effects editor, Greg, to get a look at an interesting build that he created. This build was different than anything he had done before so let’s check it out!
This week I sat down with sound effect editor, Brad, to get some helpful insight on a key aspect of being a sound editor… RESEARCH! This side of being an editor is often neglected. Editors often think that they can just figure it out with the library they have, but that is not always the case. Check out some examples and helpful tips below!
