The Boom Box Post blog provides insights into the creative sound design process of Boom Box Post's owners and employees.
I am extremely excited to announce that Boom Box Post has officially broken ground on a brand new facility. Boom Box Post Verdugo will be 6,000 sq ft of state of the art post production sound space. Collaboration is of the utmost importance to us and we are thrilled to be able to house our growing staff under one roof.
We have a new Office Manager/Assistant Editor at Boom Box Post! It is our pleasure to introduce you to Zanne!
Over-cutting in your SFX editorial is a really easy mistake to make, but one that can be a real headache for your mixer. Today we’ll go over a quick tip to help you avoid adding too much to your FX builds.
When searching your library for interesting layers to add to a build, it’s very tempting to add every sound you hear that you think is appropriate and cool. But this can lead to bloated builds that make mixing pretty tricky. This is especially true if this build continues in a scene for a while, or god forbid, needs to be cut to perspective.
Something that was adapted during work from home was how the Boom Box Post team discussed recent film and series binges. These discussions prior to quarantine typically took place around the lunch table, but now they have shifted to a designated watch and listen slack channel. I’d love to invite you into the discussion and highlight a few of the films/tv shows we have been streaming recently.
We are very excited to announce that we were nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards this year! Many of our team members were part of these nominations, and we are ecstatic to share their good news with the world!
With only a week left in June, we crossover the halfway point of 2021 and enter the second half of the year. So far in 2021 we have worked on a handful of amazing new projects, all of which we are extremely proud of and excited to share with you.
From giant mecha robot fights, to ancient black magic or car chase sequences, the types of projects we work on as sound designers come in all different shapes and sizes. Animation particularly as a medium continues to surprise me, and you never know what to expect when you open up a new episode for the first time.
Through all of the genres, styles, and stories that we get thrown our way, one of the things I see editors consistently have a difficult time with is, you guessed it…TOON! I know that may seem surprising, and that on the surface the concept of “toon” might appear basic or juvenile. But the reality is toon is a tricky beast that can be tough to master. Whether it’s a toony series, toony sequence, or the occasional comedic accent, I want you to be ready if you ever find yourself working in the world of toon. So for this blog post, I decided to give a crash course on “The Art of Toon.”
Quiz time!!! Don’t worry…there’s no need to stress out about it. We haven’t done a sound quiz in awhile and we know how much you guys love these so we figured why not!? If you haven’t checked out any of our sound quizzes thus far, we are putting some links at the bottom of this blog. Enjoy!
It isn’t close to being Halloween yet, but there’s never a bad time for something SCARY! This blog has some very exciting sound design by one of our sound editor’s, Lalo. We hope you enjoy its creepiness as much as we do. Check out this scary balloon nightmare below!
Have you ever been watching a video on youtube or streaming a song online and wished you could boost the bass, tweak the mids, or even-out the high end? Well, what if I told you there was a chrome extension that allowed you to EQ any audio source in your browser window? Introducing Ears: Bass Boost, EQ Any Audio!
At Boom Box, we are lucky to get to use so much creativity designing new things for our shows. A lot of times this includes monsters, vehicles, machines etc. I think this one is especially cool because it is an army of monsters with weapons, vocals, and more! Check out the awesome sound design Katie used to create this army build and how she did it below!
I remember the first time I was on a mix stage, the mixer broke out this software tool that made it look like we were about to decode The Matrix. There were grainy shades of orange in crazy designs. What was I looking at?!?
That tool was the Spectral Repair module from Izotope RX and it’s a modern marvel.
I decided to give the super-awesome and totally free Zebralette Sythesizer from u-he a try. I’m not very experienced when it comes to synthesizers. I’ve had fun messing around with them on occasion, but I am far from a proficient synthesizer user, so I decided to get my feet wet and do some experimenting. I am SO glad I did.
Here at Boom Box Post our slogan is to focus on the creative. While that’s at the top of our list, a close second is focusing on the positive. This is easily reflected in our extensive backlog of blog posts. Favorite Free Apps, Most Loved Plugins, Favorite Cartoon SFX, the list goes on and on. But not everything can be our favorite. So this week I asked the Boom Box Post team to share their least favorite sounds.
I hope you’re ready to be SPOOKED because this blog is going to uncover how Natalia created an evil slime monster! Here at Boom Box, we are constantly having to create unique sound design, so check out how she managed to make THIS monster unique!
Last fall, I had the pleasure to take part in a roundtable discussion about sound design for series animation with the lovely people at the Tonebenders Podcast. At the time, I had just had a new baby a mere matter of weeks before and was in the heart of the sleep-deprived, can-barely-grab-a-banana-much-less-a-sandwich days of motherhood. But, I couldn’t turn down the flattering invitation to join this discussion between key animation sound design players. So, I aggressively fueled up on coffee, shut myself up in my garage studio (ahhhh, the joys of a completely silent soundproof room after playing maidservant to a screaming tyrant…), set up my mic, and away we went!
One of our most popular blog series is Glossary of Sound Effects, of which we have done 3 parts. On the original post, we get a ton of questions asking what keywords should be used when trying to find very specific sounds. I decided to relay a few of these questions to our editorial team. I’m very curious what buzzwords they will recommend.
Build your library! We say it all the time in blog posts, and it's advice we always give to our interns, but this tip often raises the question: What do I buy? There are a ton of amazing commercial libraries out there to purchase. If you’re overwhelmed and unsure of what to buy, this blog post is for you!
We are SO excited to announce that we were nominated for FIVE MPSE awards this year! Working from home has had its fair share of challenges, but getting this good news makes it all worth it. We cannot be more proud of the hard work our entire team has put into our projects this past year. Check out the nominations below!
