SoundDex

11/07/2024

When asking copilot to tell you more about www.sounddex.co.za and it sums up exactly what we’ve been doing over the last 5 years

26/05/2022

SoundDex has been contacted by a live events company looking for crew and they would like to crew through SoundDex, this is everything from Riggers to Mixers and AV Techs.

Get registered to the site asap if you fall in these categories and let us help you get some work.

29/04/2022

Are you Having RF issues, why not try this, Paulo Valongo has given us a little tip to try and resolve some issues.

An old trick which has been largely forgotten about, is using certain lengths of coax (RF) cable to create notch filters and thus reduce this problem.

27/04/2022

So you want to break into the Freelance Market! Well have a read through Kirsten Emma Hunneyball's experience and what she found to work for her.

Read More articles on SoundDex.

Recently I found myself stuck on a particular audio edit for dialogue that was driving me mad. I could not seem to clean up the ambient...

26/04/2022

now here's an interesting read...

In this article, Mike Thornton offers a perspective on why the sample rates we use were chosen and, using broadcast specs from the 80s, shows how much better even early digital systems were than the analogue systems of the time. This is an interesting read!

21/04/2022

Ever had pops through your sound cards?

Try this quick trick to try and help!

Thank you Paulo Valongo for this...

Have you got a tip to share with the community send me a message and lets see you little gem.

For those of you that use a Windows laptop and the built-in sound card for audio work, you may have experienced a very irritating feature, power management.

18/04/2022

Once again Alwyn Nienaber has offer up a great article one Synths.

Check out his latest Article over at SoundDex.

With the rise of fashion from the 80’s becoming popular in today’s time, it’s no wonder that music genres like Synthwave, New Wave and Disco Funk are making a comeback in the modern world. Bigger musical instrument companies such as Yamaha, Korg and Roland

14/04/2022

Sounddex news and updates

One feature we often get asked for is for people to contact you directly from the listing. Well after running a whole bunch of tests and making sure this is the route was wanted to go we are now able to give a direct link to your Whatsapp form the link, this comes in the form of a button in your lis...

14/04/2022

Upgrade Upgrades Upgrades, some new features added to the listing pages on request, check your emails for more info.

08/04/2022

SoundDex is always working to Upgrade the way we work, over the last couple months we have been working towards getting our clients to contact the listies directly from their listings. We are now able to implement direct whatsapp communications from your listings. This is something we are really excited about and cant wait to get you connected to your clients.

If you want more info please drop me an email or a PM and lets Talk through this.

08/04/2022

Congratulations to Chante Smith, for winning the Gold membership upgrade for a year to Zapsplat! Your upgrade has been applied already and next time you access you will have access to 100000+ SFX.

Enjoy and make some awesome noise...

PS: if anyone else is interested in getting access to an awesome library check out ZapSplat for free and upgrade to the gold account!

I use them in almost every Film or series I work on...

Download FREE Sound Effects - 100,000+ FREE Sound Effects & 400+ Royalty Free Music Tracks

07/03/2022

SoundDex is down we are working on the problem we will be back shortly!

Sorry about the interruption in service.

28/02/2022

Remember Monday's are a good time to be in touch with your clients, if you have no clients booked in on a Monday morning use this time to contact the clients you have not heard from in a while.

23/02/2022

Self promotion is a great way to get work but when you have a group of people helping you promote you business you have a better chance of success.

04/02/2022

Here's something for anyone who works with Sound Effects!

SoundDex is working on new relationships and partnerships around the world to make this platform your go to for news info and new clients, and the is the first of more to come.

Zapsplat has just uploaded their 100000th Sound effect and to celebrate this we are giving away a gold Membership to the platform.

Here's what you need to do.

1. You need to be signed up to Zapsplat (free account)
2. You need to share this post with a fellow Sound Engineer. Tag SoundDex Fb Page
3. If you are a Listed engineer on SoundDex.co.za you get a second free entry to the draw
4. Follow SoundDex on Insta and Facebook and get 2 more entries.
5. Follow Zapsplat on Insta and Facebook and get another 2 entries.

The basic account is free and you will already be in a better place with a whole lot of new SFX's.

Good luck and start the entering today.

(Heres the lucky 100000th SFX - I think its great fun one to celebrate the occasion - https://www.zapsplat.com/music/game-sound-congratulations-win-game-harp-glissando-leads-into-a-fanfare-and-fireworks/)

24/01/2022

Happy Monday everyone, I am busy working on some security/Popia upgrades please be patient if the site is a little slow at the moment.

Oh if anyone goes to the site and notices something is note working please let me know, while we work to ensure iverything is working sometimes things slip through.

18/01/2022

Did you know you can add a website link, show reel or link to some of your mixes to your listings... It you want to know more speak to Grant Harris or Chris van Zyl and let us help you get them in.

10/01/2022

Welcome to the new year, we had a great break and now are ready to hit the year hard.

once again we are looking for content and are calling out to everyone, if you are keen to get some writing done and have an opinion on something lets hear it.

PM us and let's chat about it.