The Boom Box Post blog provides insights into the creative sound design process of Boom Box Post's owners and employees.
Boom Box Post is opening its doors for an awards season hang this Monday, September 18th!
Come mix and mingle with other creatives in the sound community this awards season at Boom Box Post! Explore our newly opened state-of-the-art studio and mix stages while learning more about the work of others in the industry.
Boom Box Post owner, Jeff Shiffman, was invited to be on the Fan Favorites panel at San Diego Comic Con to give insight on his work in Transformers: EarthSpark. Jeff and five other creative minds behind some of the biggest TV and movie projects reveal how they bring fan-favorite stories to life.
We are extremely proud to announce the release of our latest Boom Box Library: Foley Essentials!
The Foley Essentials SFX Library contains footstep, scuff, and drag sound effect recordings on a variety of surfaces. Surfaces include dirt, creaky floorboards, brick, leaves, grass, gravel, mud, sand, snow, water puddles, and wood. Each surface was walked with several shoe options including leather dress shoes, high heels, and sneakers.
At Boom Box Post, we have the opportunity to work on various different types of animation, ranging from children’s animation to adult animation. When it comes to animation, whether it's targeted at children or adults, sound effects have a significant impact on the overall feel and immersion. Sound plays an important factor in bringing animation to life. In this blog post, we'll delve into the fascinating world of sound effects and explore the key differences between those used in children's animation and adult animation.
Jayson Niner recently moved from his position as assistant sound editor to editor here at Boom Box Post. We sat down with Jayson to get his thoughts on his new position, and if he has any advice to offer.
We recently brought on a new Boom Box Post apprentice. It is our pleasure to introduce Nathan Yamaguchi! We had a chance to ask him a few questions to better get to know him.
Did you enjoy What’s That Sound part 1, 2, and 3? Let’s see if you can guess what sounds we have come up with this time! Listen carefully!
Post Perspective recently wrote an article featuring an interview with one of Boom Box Post’s owners, Kate Finan. Kate is a re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor, and co-founder of Boom Box Post, a boutique animation-specific sound studio located in Burbank, CA. Post Perspective chatted with Kate about Gabby’s Dollhouse and the specific steps relating to the audio post process.
Tonebenders, a podcast featuring a collective of sound design professionals sharing their thoughts, ideas, and stories, recently released a podcast featuring an interview with our two owners, Jeff Shiffman and Kate Finan. Tonebenders chatted with Jeff and Kate about their experience of transforming a former auto body shop into a brand new multi-room audio post facility.
No Film School recently released an article featuring an interview with our two owners, Jeff Shiffman and Kate Finan. No Film School chatted with Kate and Jeff about the goals within Boom Box Post. This includes hiring men, women, and non-binary at a 50/50 level, education within the studio, and their paid apprenticeship program which contains weekly lessons and real-world feedback from members of the staff. Jeff and Kate also chat about their experience building their own sound studio from a former auto shop.
Animation World Network recently wrote an article and interviewed Kate Finan, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor, and co-founder with Jeff Shiffman of Boom Box Post, a boutique animation-specific sound studio located in Burbank, CA. They chat about sexism within the industry and their way on how to create an enviorment that strives for 50 percent women and gender non-conforming as well as 50 percent male. This was a founding goal of Boom Box that Finan and Shiffman reached within the first couple years.
Last year, we published two blogs that listed classic cartoon sound effects and the emotion they convey to the audience. In those posts, we outlined the toony sounds we associate with happiness, anger, sadness, humor, scared, disgust, love, and boredom. Toon sound effects have been provoking emotion for decades. With so many classic toon sounds to choose from, how does one know which to use? Our hope is these blog posts help those stuck in their sound editorial from having to sift through their entire sound library looking for the perfect sound. You can read part one HERE and part two HERE!
Dialogue editing is an essential part of the post-production process for animated TV shows, and one we take very seriously at Boom Box Post! Clear, crisp, organized, and coherent dialogue is the bedrock of any TV show. Meticulously shaping, enhancing, and cleaning up the voice performances does wonders to breathe life into the characters as well as streamline the mixing process.
Creating sound effects from a musical angle adds a unique and fun energy to your design. Building effects, either momentary or sequential, can be made all the more engaging if their basis is a musical one, especially in animation. That being said, balance is key when approaching sound effect design from a musical perspective.
Knowing your SFX library is essential to becoming an efficient SFX editor. However, it can be quite daunting at first as there are so many different types of sound for the same object. Knowing how to read and use your SFX library to its fullest potential will greatly increase the creativity and ways to use those sounds. Our SFX Editor, Katie Jackson, sat down to teach the tips and tricks to making the most out of your SFX library.
Creature vocal sound design and creature movement sound design is an essential part of creating believable and immersive worlds in film, television, and video games. It involves creating unique vocalizations for fictional creatures, ranging from terrifying beasts to friendly aliens, as well as translating where this creature comes from, what type of body it has and its size.
We have a new Assistant Editor at Boom Box Post! It is our pleasure to introduce you to Mia!
I’ve had it on my list to test out some software synths that I had purchased a while back. My week was light so I fired up The Riser by AIR. One of the presets had a really interesting oscillating sound and the functionality of The Riser made it easy for me to play around with pitch and speed. I found myself creating crazy spaceship engine sounds (very likely influenced by having just watched the movie) and thought, “this would be a great blog post!'‘
Creating futuristic anything is fun, but where to start? Here was my process for creating a full compliment of entirely original (and useful!) futuristic spacecraft engine sounds.
On past projects I have received critiques that my wood creaks for various items (doors, wooden chairs, footsteps, etc) sounded pretty weak and ill-fitting for the scene. The sound libraries I had access to at the time really didn’t offer many quality options, so I decided to do some research on how I could capture better creak sounds. I stumbled upon a couple videos online of Foley artists using what is called a creak box. This Foley instrument allows the user to more precisely create and perform creaking sounds quite easily. Below I’ll be going over how I put together a couple different creak boxes of my own and what I learned in the process.
We recently brought on a new Boom Box apprentice. It is our pleasure to introduce AzMarie Livingston! We had a chance to ask her a few questions to better get to know her. Continue reading to get to know her better.
