Sound Design

Finessing the Flanger: How to Create Beautiful and Weird Sounds

Finessing the Flanger: How to Create Beautiful and Weird Sounds

There are a handful of DAW effects that are considered integral parts of modern music production. Think of reverbs, delays or compressors—it’s rare that a...

How to Record Foley at Home

How to Record Foley at Home

Ah Foley—the unsung art of creating bespoke sound effects for movies, TV, and other visual media from scratch. In recent years, this practice has...

Free Iris 2 Presets from Audio UX

Free Iris 2 Presets from Audio UX

A creative audio agency, Audio UX wants to “sonify your story.” Based in New York, the team behind Audio UX believes that there should be no arbitrary...

How the Sound Designers of It Created Fear with Sound

How the Sound Designers of It Created Fear with Sound

Image source: It official website Paul Hackner is an award-winning sound designer and mixer, originally from South Africa, whose feature projects include...

Runtime DSP, It’s Tricky: Video Game and VR Audio with Brian Schmidt

Runtime DSP, It’s Tricky: Video Game and VR Audio with Brian Schmidt

With over thirty years of video game audio experience, including ten of them leading the audio technology department for Xbox at Microsoft, Brian Schmidt...

Making Love + Radio: An Interview with Radiotopia podcaster Brendan Baker

Making Love + Radio: An Interview with Radiotopia podcaster Brendan Baker

Last week we were lucky to have Brendan Baker from Radiotopia’s Love + Radio stop by and chat with us about the show, the challenges most podcasters...

Using Vinyl For Lo Fi Vocal Effects

Using Vinyl For Lo Fi Vocal Effects

In this example, our free plug-in Vinyl is adding grit and dirt to the lead vocal during the bridge of a song. The DUST, MECHANICAL NOISE, WEAR, and...

Using Vinyl For An Old Radio Sound

Using Vinyl For An Old Radio Sound

In this example, Vinyl  is being used to make a song sound as if it is being played from an old radio. The Year parameter band-limits the signal, making...

How To Expand Your Rhythmic Possibilities With Stutter Edit

How To Expand Your Rhythmic Possibilities With Stutter Edit

iZotope's live remix software Stutter Edit is a great tool for both studio and stage. Stutter Edit's features revolve around an innovative engine that...

How To Match Audio From Different Sound Sources

How To Match Audio From Different Sound Sources

Transitions from studio-recorded commentary to a presenter on camera with a personal mic are a constant headache when mixing documentaries. It can be difficult...

Learn Iris 2 In 20 Minutes

Learn Iris 2 In 20 Minutes

iZotope has partnered with Groove3, a leading provider of training and tutorial videos for today's popular music software and recording techniques, to...