Bavegung Sound Design

03/02/2022

"But what do you actually do?" I'm asked repeatedly, when saying" I'm a sound designer".
Here's a quick explanation of my thinking process when creating sound effects for a commercial animation video.

15/12/2021

Listen to our sound design for the new AppsFlyer video made by Bilderish-Creativity in Motion animation studio.

05/11/2021

Inserting audio plugins in a channel through the mixer makes the plugin work on the entire audio track. That way, you can move clips from one track to another, and the audio plugin will only affect the clips that are on the track where the plugin is inserted.

Full video: https://youtu.be/asn8Ms0NMvM

03/11/2021

What's a sound signal flow?
In a mixer, All the tracks are routed to the mix channel. This is how any mixer works.
This means that a sound that is generated on a track, will pass through the mix track to your audio interface that will transform this digital signal into an analog signal, which will then be converted into real sound in your speakers.

Full video: https://youtu.be/asn8Ms0NMvM

01/11/2021

Manually adjusting the music behind a voice track is by far the most accurate way to make sure your voice will be present and clear.
Here is a quick explanation of how to do it, plus a secret tip!
Full Youtube tutorial: https://youtu.be/o8xcAKPrVJk

30/10/2021

Compression is one of the most important things to understand if you want to level up your sound work. When should you use it? Here is a quick explanation.
Full Youtube tutorial: https://youtu.be/o8xcAKPrVJk

28/10/2021

When you send your sound files to your sound designer, do you know what they do to enhance and balance the sound elements? Here is a quick overview.
Full Youtube tutorial: https://youtu.be/o8xcAKPrVJk

26/10/2021

Generating keyframes lets you duck the music volume when the dialogue is present - Now, you can do it automatically in just one click! Here is how to do it.
Full Youtube tutorial:
https://youtu.be/o8xcAKPrVJk

24/10/2021

Here is how to add reverb to your voice recordings.
Full YouTube video tutorial: https://youtu.be/qvttNzbBlgg

23/10/2021

Using Premiere Pro? Here is how to make your voice clip sound Phone-like in just one click, using the EQ tool that you can find in the Premiere’s Essential Sound Panel.
Full YouTube video tutorial: https://youtu.be/qvttNzbBlgg

22/10/2021

If you use Adobe Premiere, you have two magic tools in your arsenal that can make you voice clips sound much better - Compression and EQ. Here is how to find them.
Full YouTube video tutorial: https://youtu.be/qvttNzbBlgg

21/10/2021

If you made a recording in a corridor, bathroom or a large spce, you might notic a significant echo in your recording. In professional language it is called “Reverb” - Here is how to deal with it, using Premiere’s Essential Sound Panel.
Full YouTube video tutorial: https://youtu.be/qvttNzbBlgg

20/10/2021

Ever had a hum / buzz sound in your recording? It might have something to do with the electricity system in your country. Here is how to fix in using Premiere’s Essential Sound Panel.
Full YouTube video tutorial: https://youtu.be/qvttNzbBlgg

19/10/2021

Here’s a quick way of balancing multiple audio clips in just one click, using Premiere’s Essential Sound Panel.
Full YouTube video tutorial: https://youtu.be/qvttNzbBlgg

17/10/2021

"Running your enterprise is much like driving a car - It's not just about the destination.
It's a journey and a race to satisfy your clients and meet your goals."

We did the sound effects and mixing in this satisfying video for 7CI.

16/10/2021

Would you drive a car with only half the parts? We had a great time designing the sound of this beautiful animation for Alison.
Check out our portfolio: https://bavegung.com/portfolio/

14/10/2021

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14/10/2021

I t was a great pleasure working with on this beautiful animation video!

05/09/2021

Clipping is a common issue with voice recording. It is one of the worst things that can happen to you when recording. It really sounds terrible, and most of the time, it’s not restorable. It’s also really easy to avoid, much easier than echo or noise. All you have to do is not boosting the Gain k**b too much on your audio interface. Set it to 50 percent, and then make a test by speaking loud into your microphone, just a little louder than usual, and listen to the recording. If you see it going red in the meter and hear it clipping, turn it down a little and repeat the test. If you see that the meter is relatively low, on the other hand, and you have to boost the output volume k**b, then it’s too low.

03/09/2021

Unless you’re a professional sound designer or musician, you probably won’t have an acoustically treated room, so the best place to record is inside a closet or a room filled with furniture. Rags, Closets, and couches are your friends!
Also, remember that closing the windows and turning off the AC is the best denoiser.

02/09/2021

Keep your mouth a few inches from the microphone. We don’t want to get too close because then the microphone will catch too much of the low frequencies in your voice, making your voice sound muddy. If you get too close, you’ll also notice that the plosives - the B’s and the p’s create an extra bass boost, which sounds really amateur. To ensure that this doesn’t happen, you should use a pop filter, which is this thing. It filters the air from the plosives.

On the other hand, you can’t be too far from the microphone because then it will catch many room reflections, which can make your recording sound really bad.

01/09/2021

An audio interface is basically an external sound card. Its most basic feature is to convert an analog signal to digital and vice versa. You can find lots of good Audio Interfaces with internal preamps and phantom power that allow you to connect your microphones with an XLR cable and record your voice.

If you’re a video creator, you can buy a portable recorder like the Zoom H6 for example instead of an audio interface. It will allow you to connect, preamp, and record with any microphone, and you can also take it outside to record the dialogue of foley sounds. The downside is that you won’t be able to record directly to your computer. So keep that in mind.

If you use a condenser you’ll have to push the 48V button, that’s the phantom power.

28/08/2021

Video creator? Here is a quick and easy guide to remove echo from voice recordings using Adobe Audition. Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/lvAEJMs7RCE

Enjoy!

26/08/2021

If you work with premiere you have access to the audio tools that you can find in the audio tab. Full video: https://youtu.be/lvAEJMs7RCE

16/08/2021

Suppose you’re working on a project with a specific subject.
For example, a motorbike race.
To craft your soundtrack, you’ll need lots of motorbikes engine sounds, motorbikes drifting, falling, crashing, and so on. It might be best to consider buying a sound pack with all these sounds bundled together.

Companies like A Sound Effect and Boom Library are specialized in doing just that. A Sound Effect provides value-for-money sound packs so you can find some really good libraries for 50 to $100, while Boom Library is one of the top, high-quality sound libraries that money can buy, but the prices are a bit higher.

Full video: https://youtu.be/V9hJhYiaDmw

12/08/2021

If you just want to buy a single sound effect to pay as you go, you can check out websites like
- Audio jungle
- Pond 5
- Pro Sound Effects
- SoundDogs

Full Video: https://youtu.be/V9hJhYiaDmw

Pond 5 and AudioJungle are two of the top, most popular music and SFX libraries amongst video creators. The prices for each sound vary mostly from $1 to $10. These websites are marketplaces where anyone can create sounds and sell them at any cost and the items usually have to pass a very minimal quality check. so keep that in mind.
Audio jungle’s prices for a single sound effect are usually around 1 to 3 dollars, while pond 5 offers sounds for a minimal price of 4 USD.

Pro Sound Effect, however, is one of the most respected libraries amongst sound designers. They create all the sounds by themselves, and the cost is a fixed $5 price per sound.

What about SoundDogs? They have the reputation of a professional-level sound effects library but at a more affordable range of prices.

10/08/2021

There are many websites and platforms today that sell sound effects in different formats. In our last youtube episode, we go through the different types of libraries in the market and help you choose what is right for you.
Full Video: https://youtu.be/V9hJhYiaDmw

18/06/2021

A few tips to conclude,

Use a combination of a shotgun microphone and a portable recorder.

Plan out your sound effects beforehand and work out what you need to record and what you will use a library for.

Record in a controlled acoustic environment if possible, but don’t be afraid to capture sounds outdoors for a more authentic feel.

Be gentle with your gain levels, and don’t record sounds that are too loud or “clipping.”

16/06/2021

Tascam DR-05X costs around 120 USD

So it’s affordable, highly portable, and can last up to 17 hours while recording using only two AA batteries. It also has a durable design, making it ideal for taking into wet or dirty environments and capturing quality sounds outdoors.

The next one which I really really love is the Zoom H6 Recorder. It costs around 330dollars.

This is a professional stereo recorder. It features a screen and many adjustable features. It has a Robust design that allows it to handle the harshest environments, so it’s perfect for recording out in the field. It Contains up to 6 inputs and can record up to 96Khz. I recommend recording in 48 Khz btw.

08/06/2021

Download free EQ presets for Premiere and Media Composer!
https://www.subscribepage.com/eqpresets

07/06/2021

How to EQ your voice track?

Boosting high frequencies improves clarity.
We actually don’t perceive all the frequencies the same way, and our ear is much more sensitive to high frequencies than
Boosting low frequencies can make your voice sound more pleasant and “warm”.
We can’t make the voice sound actually lower, but we can boost lower frequencies that already exist in the voice, using EQ.

06/06/2021

This shape is boosting the high and low frequencies. It is the easiest and “Safest” way to make voice sound better, without having a lot of experience with EQ.

05/06/2021

Boosting high frequencies improves clarity. Our ear is much more sensitive to high frequencies than to lower ones.

04/06/2021

What are the EQ settings we need to know?

On the horizontal axis, we have frequencies from 20 to 20Hz, the human hearing range.
There’s the vertical axis with the gain, which is the loudness of each frequency.
Those can be controlled using the settings, which control the frequencies, measured in Hertz, and the gain measured in DB.
You can also just click and drag point (listen to how it changes the sound).
If you choose a point that is set to 100Hz, for example, and move the gain control up, you boost this frequency. If you move the control down, you decrease the loudness of this frequency is in the signal.
The next property is shape or type. By default, points 1 to 5 are set to a bell shape (in this EQ plugin). In other eq’s you have all kinds of shapes but here it’s limited. You can change the shape only for the first and last point, but you can control how wide or narrow your bell is, by changing this property right here. In other EQ plugins, you’ll usually find the letter Q next to it.

03/06/2021

Boosting low frequencies can make your voice sound more pleasant and “warm”.
We can’t make the voice sound actually lower, but we can boost lower frequencies that already exist in the voice, using EQ.

02/06/2021

This represents the human sensitivity to frequencies. We actually don’t perceive all the frequencies the same way, and you can see that there is a little bump here at around 10K, which means that from 10K our ear is much more sensitive to sound.

01/06/2021

This is how almost any eq looks like in a professional sound editing software (DAW).
a brief explanation of how to make your voice track sound better using eq:

On the horizontal axis, we have frequencies from 20 to 20Hz, the human hearing range.
There’s the vertical axis with the gain, which is the loudness of each frequency.
Those can be controlled using these settings, which control the frequencies, measured in HERZ, and the gain measured in DB.
You can also just click and drag point (listen to how it changes the sound).
If you choose a point that is set to 100hz, for example, and move the gain control up, you boost this frequency. If you move the control down, you decrease the loudness of this frequency is in the signal.

31/05/2021

EQ is the process of adjusting the balance between frequency components (Wikipedia).
What does it mean?
Well, the problem is that when a signal is caught with a microphone it will usually sound a little dull, maybe distant, and generally speaking, we have got used to hearing a processed voice in a certain way.
When we listen to vocals in music, voice-over in ads, or dialogue in a film, it’s almost always processed in a certain way. The signal usually passes through a chain of effects that includes Equalization.

22/05/2021

Foley sounds are every sound that is related to a character and can be reproduced in the studio.

For example, footsteps are one of the sounds that are the most associated with foley.
We use field recording, synthesis, and audio libraries for sound effects like car crashes, explosions, whooshes, and any abstract sound.

All the sounds recorded and added to the session have to be modified, edited, and synchronized to match the picture.