The Boom Box Post blog provides insights into the creative sound design process of Boom Box Post's owners and employees.
This week Jessey Drake answers questions on a few topics that could benefit current/future audio students. Being an audio professor, Jessey knows the ins and outs of how audio schools can improve, helping their students prepare for a career in sound. We wanted to get some insight on common misconceptions and as well as advice for how audio students can prepare for their future!
Happy Tuesday all! Social media is a fun/popular way to get opinions about various things so we thought it would be cool to start a new thing to show off to the blog… Twitter polls! For this first one, I thought it would be cool to get opinions on various headphones that are pretty popular for editing. Check out the various headphones and poll results below!
As some of you may know, I’m a long-time sound designer and supervising sound editor, but I just started mixing a few years ago. While attending mixes as a supervisor definitely gave me a window into best practices for sound design success (aka how to make sure your work actually gets played…audibly), I got a whole new vantage point for what to do (and not do) once I started having to dig through sound design sessions myself! So, while I am a fledgeling mixer and you should always speak directly to the mixer working on your project before making decisions or altering your workflow, I feel that I am qualified to share my personal preferences and experiences. Take this as the starting point for a conversation—a window into one mixer’s mind, and hopefully it will spark great communication with your own mixer.
It’s been awhile since we’ve done a creative build blog post so here’s the first one of the new year! This week I sat down with Brad to look at a fun build he did for a snow cone machine. This one had several builds slightly different from each other so check it out below!
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!
