Month: September 2022

SoundGym: Ear Training For Sound Designers? *Please note that this blog post may contain affiliate links* Sound Designer’s Starter Pack: https://daviddumaisaudio.com/starterpack If you could upgrade your hearing, would you? What if you could train yourself to hear frequencies more accurately? What about hearing compression, reverb, distortion, and panning? I think it’s safe to say that

Let’s Recreate Sounds From Donkey Kong Country *Please note that this blog post may contain affiliate links* Sound Designer’s Starter Pack: https://daviddumaisaudio.com/starterpack In this video, I recreate sounds from the video game Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. We’ll be recreating the banana, banana coin, kong coin, rock smash as well as other sounds from the

My Favorite Technique For Creating SOUND EFFECTS From Scratch *Please note that this blog post may contain affiliate links* Sound Designer’s Starter Pack: https://daviddumaisaudio.com/starterpack There are a lot of ways of creating sound effects. You can use layering, synthesis, or just record a sound and use it as is. In this video, I share my

Let’s Design The Axe Recall Sound From God Of War *Please note that this blog post may contain affiliate links* FREE GUIDE on 5 layering techniques for creating sound effects: https://sfx.daviddumaisaudio.com/layering In this video, I redesign the axe recall from the video game God of War. I focused my time on 3 layers: wood, whoosh,