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Time Management Tips From Boom Box Post

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Time Management Tips From Boom Box Post

How often do you look up at the clock in disbelief that day is already halfway gone? Time is easy to lose track of and there’s nothing worse than feeling behind on your projects. We interviewed our expert mixers and sound editors for their input on how to consistently deliver work in a professional manner: on time!

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Toon Sound Effects for Conveying Emotion: Part 5

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Toon Sound Effects for Conveying Emotion: Part 5

In the past, we have published multiple blogs that list classic cartoon sound effects and the emotion they convey to the audience. Our hope is that these lists will help those stuck in their sound editorial from having to sift through their entire sound library looking for the perfect sound.

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Halloween Creature Sound Design Challenge

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Halloween Creature Sound Design Challenge

We love to put our editors to the test to see what kind of SFX builds they can come up with! For Halloween this year, we thought it would be fun to see how well they can design a realistic, classic Halloween creature. From werewolves, vampire, and zombies, to banshees, let’s see what they came up with!

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Toon Sound Effects for Conveying Emotion: Part 4

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Toon Sound Effects for Conveying Emotion: Part 4

In the past, we have published multiple blogs that list classic cartoon sound effects and the emotion they convey to the audience. Our hope is that these lists will help those stuck in their sound editorial from having to sift through their entire sound library looking for the perfect sound.

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Storytelling in Music and Sound Panel with Kate Finan & Greg Nicolett

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Storytelling in Music and Sound Panel with Kate Finan & Greg Nicolett

This month, the Comic-Con Museum in San Diego held a one-day symposium titled Storytelling Across Media which provided professional panels geared toward aspiring writers, artists, musicians, and media professionals interested in the art of storytelling. I had the pleasure of being invited to be a panelist on the topic of “Storytelling in Music and Sound.” They invited an array of industry professionals and asked us each to invite a collaborator of our choosing in order to delve into our collaborative processes of using music and sound to further our storytelling. I was ecstatic to have been invited, and immediately thought of bringing Greg Nicolett, the underscore composer on Pupstruction, to join me.

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Toon Sound Effects for Conveying Emotion: Part 3

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Toon Sound Effects for Conveying Emotion: Part 3

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!

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Toon Sound Effects for Conveying Emotion

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Toon Sound Effects for Conveying Emotion

At Boom Box Post, since we focus in sound for animation, I thought it would be helpful to create a list of classic toon sound effects and the emotion typically associated with them. In this post, we will be focusing on the following: happiness, anger, sadness, and humor.

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Welcome to the New Office!

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Welcome to the New Office!

January has been a very exciting month for the Boom Box Post team. Following the holiday break, the team began to move into our new 520 S Verdugo location! Check out some recent updates, as well as pictures from move in day!

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Reflecting On 2021

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Reflecting On 2021

2021 was a year full of adaption and learning a new hybrid form of remote and in-person work and life. Here at Boom Box Post, we began to master the new work flow as we focused on editorial on new shows and honed in on our skills. See some reflections from the team below!

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Audio Meme Battle!

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Audio Meme Battle!

Welcome to the battle of the memes! It is up to you, the readers, to vote a winner for your favorite audio post production related meme created by our Boom Box Post Team!

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BBP's Favorite Audio Tools

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BBP's Favorite Audio Tools

A while ago we did a blog post about favorite audio tools our Boom Box editors enjoy and are using lately. New plug-ins, techniques and libraries are coming about all the time so I thought I'd check in with some of them now to see if there are any new tools they could share with us.

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Boom Box Post Intern Spotlight: Katie Maynard

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Boom Box Post Intern Spotlight: Katie Maynard

Summer is here, and that means new interns have joined the team here at Boom Box Post! They've already started to learn from editors, record sound effects and have a lot more ahead of them. This week, we'll sit down with intern Katie Maynard to learn more about her and her interest in sound.

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Intern Recording Challenge

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Intern Recording Challenge

In this months Inside Sound Design I wanted to give our new interns some unsupervised Field Recording experience.  I sent Colin Grant out with a stereo recording rig and instruction to capture a minimum of 3 distinct sound recordings.  He did a great job and learned a lot, so let's what he has to share about his adventures.

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Boom Box Intern Spotlight: Liz and Amanda

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Boom Box Intern Spotlight: Liz and Amanda

Here at Boom Box Post we have an exciting internship program that runs throughout the year. During the program each of our 2 interns will shadow editors, record foley props and participate in a series of lessons encompassing the different sound services Boom Box provides.  This includes dialogue editing, sound effects editing, mixing and more.  For more information on our internship program click here.  We collect applications year round and would love to hear from you!

Our newest class of interns began about a month ago and have done a great job learning about sound editing and recording as well as showing their passion for sound.  We hope you enjoy this brief look into our program and our stellar interns: Liz Roman and Amanda Niles.

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Creature Speech Sound Design Challenge: Part 2

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Creature Speech Sound Design Challenge: Part 2

The shocking conclusion of our 2 part vocal sound design challenge is here!  In Part 1 we asked several BBP editors to perform a non-english vocalization, and tell us about the imagined creature that created it.  For this post, we asked a few other BBP editors to process, twist and have fun with one of the clips in order to enhance the original vision.  Not surprisingly, they favored the clips with a lot of low-end information, and especially enjoyed pitch-related processing.  Check out the before and afters, plus each editors methods below!

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Death by [Sound Effect]: A Halloween Sound Design Challenge

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Death by [Sound Effect]: A Halloween Sound Design Challenge

To celebrate Halloween in gruesome style we came up with a unique challenge for our editors: Death by Sound Effect!  To kick off the creativity, we asked the team to come up with bone-chilling, funny bone-tickling and gut-wrenching ways to die, and threw all of their ideas into a hat.  Each participating editor was randomly assigned a form of savage expiration, and encouraged to be creative in their approach to a sound effect representative of that event.

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