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Home Exterior is a new Sound Effects Library from Badlands Sound. This product is a unique collection of ambiences recorded inside homes with windows open, capturing room tones that include exterior sounds.
November 23, 2021
Company: Badlands Sound
Product: Home Exterior
Price: $50
Our Rating: 4.6/5
Home Exterior is a new Sound Effects Library from Badlands Sound. This product is a unique collection of ambiences recorded inside homes with windows open, capturing room tones that include exterior sounds.
Home exterior consists of 60 files with a duration of 3 mins each, totalling 5.79GB of content. A wide variety of ambient household sounds are included in this library. The 3 mins duration for each sound gives enough space to use for lengthier scenes in your projects. All sounds are available in 96kHz 24-bit, perfect for creating high-quality soundscapes.
There are many different sounds covered from the perspective of inside the house, including birds chirping, dogs barking, vehicles passing by, etc. These sounds are perfect for interior scenes that require exterior sounds so as to create a natural and realistic ambience. This will save you time in the long run as you won't have to spend ages layering multiple ambiences and tweaking the levels to achieve the desired result.
Also, the quality of the sounds is excellent as they have recorded using a pair of Sennheiser MKH 8040’s in ORTF and a Sound Devices 702t field recorder. Moreover, all the files are tagged with metadata that refers to the room tone and other sounds heard in the recording, helping you to find the sound which fits into your project instantly.
What makes this bundle different from other ambience libraries is that it is focused on room tones with the inclusion of external sounds. This is quite unique and is something that is not often seen from other room tone libraries.
We were surprised to find room tones included the sound of a plane flying by, lawn mover, and other machines operating nearby. But for the price, it would have been better if they have included a few more different types. As the bundle is focused on exterior sounds, we expected sounds of traffic, people chattering etc in a closer perspective. Even though normal room tones are covered in the library, we were looking for a bit more variety of room tones (large rooms with reverb etc).
This library is more suited to the professional user than a beginner sound designer. If you are an intermediate sound designer who is looking to expand your library, this product is worth the purchase as you will have specific matching ambiences to the scenes you will be working with.
You can purchase Home Exterior here: https://badlandssound.com/collections/ambience/products/home-exterior
The Sound Effects Ultimate Bundle contains all of the libraries we have made so far (and many new exclusive sounds).
November 23, 2021
We are pleased to announce the release of our new sound effects bundle on the 344 Audio store. The Sound Effects Ultimate Bundle contains all of the libraries we have made so far (and many new exclusive sounds), that's over 60 GB of sound effects and over 5,300 files!
This dynamic and inspiring collection will give you all the sounds you need to create soundscapes for a diverse range of subjects. Inside you will find everything from the battlefields of the middle ages, to haunted houses, distant planets and otherworldly abstract atmospheres. This bundle also contains a significant amount of vocal and voice-based effects.
With such a wide variety of content, you will surely be spoiled for choice when searching for the right sound for your projects.
The 20 libraries (soon to be more) contained in this bundle are:
All sounds have been put through their paces on real-world projects and come in 24Bit 96kHz WAV format.
Purchase the bundle here.
In this episode, titled "Business Success and Sound Design" Kaine and Alex discussed forging a career as a freelancer in the film industry.
November 23, 2021
We are pleased to share with you our recent appearance on the Slate 1 Take 1 podcast, hosted by filmmaker and past 344 collaborator Kaine Levy. In this episode, titled "Business Success and Sound Design" Kaine and Alex discussed forging a career as a freelancer in the film industry, and the mindsets that will help you find success in business.
This podcast touched on some really important areas including advice for filmmakers on how to communicate effectively with sound designers.
It's all about describing your film in terms of your vision for the film and the reasons why you are doing things
Alex also shared his personal journey from making electronic music in his bedroom to starting 344 Audio and building it into the success it is today. We think this will be really helpful to anyone who is in the beginnings of their career and unsure of their next move.
Kaine and Alex also talked about working together on the film Farewell Waltz, and their approach for the sound design. They take you through why they made certain creative decisions, and the use of music and sound together to achieve emotional impact.
Check out the full episode here: https://kainelevy.com/podcast/004-sounddesign
For more from Kaine head on over to his website & socials:
https://www.facebook.com/KaineLevy
https://www.instagram.com/kainelevy/
Colossal is a new sound effects library from pro sounds effects.
November 23, 2021
Company: Pro Sound Effects
Product: Colossal
Price: $99
Our Rating: 4.7/5
Colossal is a new sound effects library from pro sounds effects. Designed by Joseph Fraioli and Randy Torres who worked as sound editors on Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, Colossal is a collection of high-energy impacts, whooshes, and rumbles that would be right at home in the latest Hollywood blockbuster trailer.
This library is broken down into several categories of sounds including impacts, downers, risers, rumbles, braams, and whooshes. As the name suggests, all of the sounds contained in this library sound absolutely huge, and the level of polish is very high. There is also a large amount of sonic variation in this library, with a wide range of tones and timbres, and some sounds offering multiple distance perspectives and intensities.
The frequency content of theses sounds is very full, making it easy to add a cinematic and epic quality to your work that is characteristic of modern trailer sound design. Some particular favorites of ours include the "piano drop boom" and "fireball swoosh" effects.
Colossal contains over 500 original sound effects, meaning you will be spoiled for choice when searching through this library. All of the sounds are embedded with metadata to make searching for the sound you need as streamlined as possible.
The outstanding quality of the sound design in this library makes a Colossal very worthwhile addition to your sound effects collection. We would recommend this library to anyone working in trailer sound design, or who is working on projects with a "stylised" and "larger than life" aesthetic. Composers of production and trailer music will also find a lot of really useful content in this library.
We recently put this library to use when working on the short film Batman: Knightmare. We used impact and transition effects to enhance a scene and really emphasise the transitions. Having a bank of top-quality sounds like these really made the process very smooth and we were easily able to select the sounds we needed to create the desired effect with ease.
A very strong library that you will find yourself dipping into time and time again. With a superb range of breathtaking sounds, and a price tag of $99 Colossal is going to be very attractive to many audio professionals, especially those working in trailer sound/music.
You can purchase Colossal Here: https://shop.prosoundeffects.com/products/colossal-trailer-sound-effects-library
We hope you enjoyed this review!
We are teaming up with Priory Post, a boutique colour grading facility in London.
November 23, 2021
We are pleased to announce that we are teaming up with Priory Post, a boutique colour grading facility in London.
In their own words, Priory is "Our lead colour grader Gabriel Xavier has extensive experience of music videos, promos, short films, features, brand content and commercials for broadcast/cinema, including two years spent in Paris working exclusively on fashion and beauty. From enquiry to delivery, our truly personal boutique approach offers a level of direct client care that is impossible at facilities with a bigger turnover. Meanwhile, our industry-beating rates are by-the-hour, with no sneaky extras for conform, online work or deliverables. We proudly aim to be affordable for productions at any level, and love self-made musicians and film-makers. Ask about our self-funded rates, which offer the best value grading anywhere. When we’re finished, we can even author your Blu-Ray or prepare deliverables for DCP conversion."
For productions that work with us both, we are offering an exclusive 10% discount on both of our rates. We can even arrange a remote sound session live from Priory Post alongside your grading session, allowing you to finalise your sound and picture at the same time, and have your masters instantly.
We are really excited about moving forward with this new partnership and can't wait to see what amazing projects will develop!
