Blog of Professional Sound Designer, Frank D'Angelo. Pedantic Sound. Greetings!
My name is Jesse Flaitz. I am a Brooklyn based audio engineer with a specialty in audio production and post production for film/TV/web content. I started in the industry in 2009 when I began recording music with some friends and started working with small venue sound equipment. The Game Audio Blog. The sound-design-film-music Daily. Music of Sound. Incase you missed the news yesterday VCV Rack has launched – when I read their URL I grok it as CV Crack.. and as per the image below, it felt confirmed after my first jam with it last night… Think of it as virtual Eurorack modular, with the initial free release providing basic modules plus a set of Mutable Instruments modules based on the same code as their great Eurorack modules..
At present it is a freestanding app, but there is a plan to provide a VST bridge and I can easily predict this future: there will be a similar explosion of new modules as per what has happened IRL over the last many years. Welcome to diegostocco.com. Field recording pure sound worldwide. The sound my head makes. GameAudioMix. June happens to be Dynamic Range month over at Designingsound – so I thought I’d look again at an old piece of writing I did a couple of years ago called Dynamics of Narrative for Gamasutra.
Upon re-reading it, it feels nearly there, nearly putting its finger on the issue and essence of sound design itself. Who or what does sound design serve? What makes a good soundtrack or mix? What is the process needed in order to achieve these things? Designing Sound.