Idyll Sounds

26/01/2021

Sparrow Rayne and I collaborated on a sea shanty soundscape piece that turned out really nice! Enjoy!

https://twitter.com/TheSparrowRayne/status/1353842584624369666?s=19

“The sea shanty that we did is available FOR FREE right now on Bandcamp or you can be a goober and wait for it on other platforms. :p https://t.co/sqhMCJ04Cx”

19/01/2021

This is a wonderful thing. I'm glad to have helped in my tiny way. Not everyone will agree with the name change. It will probably lose a lot of frequenters. To most of them, frankly, good riddance. We don't need people so sexist that a name change away from problematic material upsets them. The goal is to anti-sexist and this is one of many ways to do it. Also, GS had lost me as a user for years and now it's gained me. I'm sure there are many others too.

I'm working to allow my business, run by me, to have some moral opinions. I don't think business should stay silent on matters that affect them just because they're "political". It may hurt my bottom line, but I'd rather that get hurt than people.

Julian Standen has just announced via an interview (on Working Class Audio's Youtube channel) that Gearslutz will be changing their name. Julian has expressed compassion and understanding for the fact that the name was offensive and inappropriate for the workplace, and would like the site to have a....

07/01/2021

I don't use this account much because my work dried up during covid and I'm bad at social media, but I think it would be inappropriate and hypocritical of me not to make a statement about yesterday's terrorist coup attempt. I think the words I used to describe it say enough that you know where Idyll Sounds stands on the matter, because words are important.

Idyll Sounds is not a political entity, but it is run and operated in the US and pays taxes to the government here, so it nonetheless has clear, material stake in the operation of that government. I will not take on any work that is in any way apologist towards these people, their leader, or their ideals.

23/12/2020

Another episode down and no qc fails, despite a particularly difficult section that refuses to stay under true peak spec. Predictably, the fix was in the low end, which was eating up all my headroom in that moment.

26/06/2020

Just delivered a printmaster to another happy client! Had lots of fun with the foley on this one, and look forward to sharing it with y'all!

30/05/2020

Did the Dialog Edit and Dialog Premix. Expect this to end up on my reel soon :)

A Markus Thorington Audiovisual

18/04/2020

Little bits of quarantine work coming in. It's nice to be productive in my chosen profession, if only a little bit!

03/04/2020

Sparrow Rayne, my wife and wonderful acoustic artist, will be doing a worldwide tour of our house during quarantine. I'll be on the mixing board.

https://twitter.com/TheSparrowRayne/status/1245599460207415298?s=20

“OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE NOT DEAD JUST NESTING ISOLATION TOUR!”

28/03/2020

New blog post about one of the most important aspects of dialog editing... ADDING NOISE!

Why fill? Why noise?

12/03/2020

New blog post about dialog editing and how to think through problems. Enjoy!

https://idyllsounds.com/blog/f/dialog-editing-a-how-to-on-which-mics-to-keep

When editing dialog, I have found that a few key concepts are at the forefront of my decision-making process. I'm 100% certain I will miss some things, as I've never actually codified my thought process until now. Furthe...

24/02/2020

Wrote this short piece of score over the weekend. Mostly for fun.
https://youtu.be/zRSZDPftzRs

A man waits for a less-than-reputable source to arrive. __ This is a piece I wrote for the Adam Audio Soundtrack Competition. The goal was to score the famou...

14/02/2020

New (first) blog post: Interesting method for identifying functionally identical clips.

The Dilemma

07/02/2020

03/02/2020

Found this beauty at a thrift store for $3. Yes there's a crack through the middle. That's the point. That crack makes the chair creak really nicely! Even do, when I showed the crack to the thrift store manager, they sold it to me for $3 instead of the posted $10 lol

01/02/2020

Idyllwild Arts 2020 In-Flight Video American Airlines

Another happy customer! All post: picture edit, fx, color grading, and of course, sound. Props to Rene for excellent direction!

Look for this video on Talk Business 360 when you fly American Airlines in February or March! Idyllwild Arts offers stunning natural beauty and small-town ch...

11/01/2020

Peter Srinivasan Dialog Edit Mix Reel

New year, new reel!

Thanks to Alex Rothauser, Damian Martorana, and Jared for allowing me to use A/B footage and audio from previous projects!
https://youtu.be/_CmU0HIoGWE

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07/01/2020

Woohoo! That's a wrap! on the film! Getting ready for the next :)

25/12/2019

Just Ski Away: A Ski Free Musical Short

Enjoy this strange side project I did with my wife for the holidays!

https://youtu.be/Q3bP2_RrPPk

Yeti Body: Would like no plug. Yeti Voice: https://www.youtube.com/user/doomof1987 Peter as the Skier: https://idyllsounds.com/ And then I was basically ever...

15/12/2019

session went well today. Sometimes prop choices are obvious. Other times, less so.

Also, sometimes, your cat decides to hang out and be generally adorable while you work.

27/11/2019

The snow is taking my windows. This is my present for finishing up my client's airline promo with rave reviews I guess!

25/11/2019

Went to see with tonight. Also got the theater owner's contact info to see if I can strike up a deal in which I can use their theater as a dub stage ;)

21/11/2019

First day of snow! It was falling all day and now my car is trapped on a hill. Don't worry though, I wont procrastinate like this on your project!

19/11/2019

Proud owner of .protools ultimate perpetual. Finally got Avid on the phone to finish the license transfer. This means, I finally get to learn preview and punch automation!

18/11/2019

Arrived for an edit gig an hour early. Strawberry banana smoothie should fill the time.

11/11/2019

Doing some tempo mapping for 's new Holiday single in Cakewalk!

09/11/2019

Proud new owner of Pro Tools Ultimate Perpetual!

09/11/2019

So the thing is, the squirrels up here bark pretty loudly. My sound library does not contain squirrel barks, so every time I or my wife hear them, I rush to get my mobile recording gear together. I am not optimized for field recording, so they inevitably stop barking by the time everything is assembled and rolling. One day, I will add them to my library, but that is not this day.

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04/11/2019

Well played, . You're never experienced real customer support until you've had a developer run home to change ONE CHARACTER of their code, and send you a custom build in 2 hours, just so you can have a different delimiter on your spreadsheet exports.

04/11/2019

Finally, after years of procrastination, I am going through my meager 10,000 file sound library and embedding accurate metadata. It's a lot of spreadsheets.

24/10/2019

Having consulted with River on audio book production, I can say that her series is top notch work. Get hooked with the free episode zero!

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"I’m Emily Mars, a girl made of darkness. In my world, only the dead can walk the Limen—and Rangers, like me, who guard the way there and back again. I didn’t choose this life. But I sure as hell choose who I fight for."

Price of Bone is Episode 0 in Rangers of the Rift
~ The rift is just the beginning

23/10/2019

Trying to read up on dialog editing workflows turns out to be difficult when you have cats.



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22/10/2019

That's a wrap! Screening on the 26th for two films. Learned a lot. Gonna make some changes. For one thing, gonna use Frame.io for reviews from now on!

18/10/2019

Solid foley session for an upcoming film: Nikki Sings Again, releasing Oct. 26, 2019. Nothing too crazy, just some basic steps, moves, sits, and a few props.

I record with a into a and .

Footsteps are done with an into Tovu Sounds' Edward Foley Instrument

Photos by @ Idyllwild, California

15/10/2019

Working on a revision and hopefully a final mix for a film screening in LA on the 23rd!

07/10/2019

Idyll Sounds

07/10/2019

Moving a fader on the Avid Artist Mix
Photo taken by Sparrow Rayne