Recreate any space with Impulse Responses!

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Recreate any space with Impulse Responses!

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!

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Mailbag! How to Design: A Fight Cloud

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Mailbag! How to Design: A Fight Cloud

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!

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Supervisor Spotlight: Tess Fournier

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Supervisor Spotlight: Tess Fournier

This past week we chatted with one of our supervising sound editors, Tess Fournier! Tess has shared so much insider knowledge here over the years but we felt it was time to get an update on both a professional and personal level!

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"Tired? Distracted? Burned-Out?" Aren't We All?

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"Tired? Distracted? Burned-Out?" Aren't We All?

I recently listened to an episode of the Ezra Klein Show podcast titled “Tired? Distracted? Burned-Out? Listen to This.” I don’t know about you, but as a parent of two small children, a business co-owner in a time of entertainment industry upheaval, and a creative professional who tries to eke out every last ounce of creative juice that I have on a daily basis, this title really spoke to me. I must say that I was riveted for the next hour as the host, Ezra Klein, and special guest, Gloria Mark, University of California Irvine professor and author of the book Attention Span, discussed how attention is not just a productivity tool, but part of our well-being and a precious resource that can be easily depleted, but also fairly easily restored if you know what to do. 

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New Boom Box Library: Typewriters

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New Boom Box Library: Typewriters

We are extremely proud to announce the release of our latest Boom Box Library: The Typewriters SFX Library!

The Typewriters SFX Library features custom sound effect recordings from both manual and electronic typewriters. Models include the Smith Corona electronic typewriter, Olivetti manual typewriter, and Olympia manual typewriter. Sound effects include typing, page scroll, page return, bells, beeps, clicks, slides, levers, and more. 

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Halloween Creature Sound Design Challenge

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Halloween Creature Sound Design Challenge

We love to put our editors to the test to see what kind of SFX builds they can come up with! For Halloween this year, we thought it would be fun to see how well they can design a realistic, classic Halloween creature. From werewolves, vampire, and zombies, to banshees, let’s see what they came up with!

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HALLOWEEN SOUNDTRACK: SLASHER IN THE WOODS

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HALLOWEEN SOUNDTRACK: SLASHER IN THE WOODS

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!

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Happy 10th Birthday Boom Box Post

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Happy 10th Birthday Boom Box Post

We recently celebrated Boom Box Post’s 10th birthday! We could not be more grateful for the opportunity to flourish in this community, and we hope Boom Box Post’s 11th year is filled with even more opportunities to shine. 

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New Boom Box Library: The Everything Bundle

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New Boom Box Library: The Everything Bundle

We are extremely proud to announce the release of ultimate Boom Box Library: The Everything Bundle!

The Everything Bundle includes all sound effects libraries released by Boom Box Library at the time of purchase. Click on the images below for more details about each library.

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Recording Terracotta Pots

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Recording Terracotta Pots

As a studio that works in a lot of children’s animation, we are always on the lookout for a good substitute for breaking glass. Recently, our supervising sound editor, Tess, took it upon herself to create our own library featuring the breakage of terracotta pots.

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"Hollywood Game Changers" Panel at San Diego Comic-Con with Kate Finan

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"Hollywood Game Changers" Panel at San Diego Comic-Con with Kate Finan

This year, I was invited to be on Impact24’s 5th Annual “Hollywood Game Changers: A Conversation with the Women Behind Popular Film and TV Projects” panel at San Diego Comic Con. I was humbled to be joined by other amazing women from across the entertainment industry, such as Ashleigh Hairston, EP/Voice Actor on Nickelodeon’s The Fairly Odd Parents: A New Wish; Joy Ngiaw, composer for WondLa, Skydance’s epic new animated series; KC Cavarozzi, Co-Founder of On Camera Audiences, and more.

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Toon Sound Effects for Conveying Emotion: Part 4

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Toon Sound Effects for Conveying Emotion: Part 4

In the past, we have published multiple blogs that list classic cartoon sound effects and the emotion they convey to the audience. Our hope is that these lists will help those stuck in their sound editorial from having to sift through their entire sound library looking for the perfect sound.

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