October 2019 - David Dumais Audio | Game Sound Design | Game Music

Month: October 2019

Sound Design

How To Make Sword Sound Effects

I’m standing here at my computer (it’s a standing desk) needing to create a ton of sword and melee weapon sounds for a project I am currently working on. If you’re like me, you probably don’t own any swords, so you need to be a little creative to find a way to make these sounds. Fortunately, I’ve already had a few projects where I had to create sword sounds, so I want to share with you my technique for creating sword sounds at home.

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Business

How To Be A Freelance Sound Designer

If you want the freedom of working for yourself, when you want, how you want, on projects that you choose, then chances are that you have already thought about becoming a freelancer. Though these promises sound very nice, they are hardly easy to come by but can be very rewarding to achieve…

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Sound Design

Izotope RX Sound Design – Using RX As A Sound Design Tool

I remember when I first got RX, I was using it exclusively as an audio repair and editing software. It was only months later that I was playing around with it and noticed that I could easily use it for sound design and create some cool new sounds from its many modules. Recently, I was playing around with it again and decided to dive deeper to find out how far I could push RX in my sound design work.

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Audio

How To Watermark Audio Files

Have you ever thought about having your music or sound effects stolen, illegally downloaded, or ripped off? Or worse, finding out that your music or sound effects are being sold by somebody else and they are making money off of your hard work.

When I began working as a composer and sound designer online, I had to figure out ways to protect my work…

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Sound Design

How To Make A Helicopter Sound Effect

I recently bought a plugin called Traveler which is made by a company called Tonsturm. As I was playing around with this plugin, I quickly realized that I could easily make what I thought were some pretty convincing helicopter sound effects…

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