Resources

Signal flow, patchbay, microphone locker, and booking.

The field recorder you check out. Recording format is on p. 47.

Target levels for quiet ambiences, loud ambiences, and hard effects.

Five ungraded editing drills for a refresher. No submission or deadline.

The DAW for this course. Free 60-day evaluation.

Package manager. Install this before the spotting workflow.

The extension set the spotting hotkeys depend on.

Auto-punch and the other record modes, diagrammed.

Creative Commons library. Check the licence before you ship.

Experimental search and browsing tools built on Freesound.

16,000 effects from the BBC archive, free for personal use.

Search Freesound and the free Pro Sound Effects tier from one app.

Library manager with a usable free tier. Good editing reference.

Royalty-free effects and music, sorted by pack.

Measured impulse responses of real spaces, from York. Free.

A small free set — halls, plates, and hardware units.

Wavetable synth used for the synthesis assignment. Free tier.

Long-form nature field recordings, free to stream.

A world map of field recordings you can wander through.

Field recordings paired with reimagined versions of the same place.

Schafer's original tapes, archived at Simon Fraser.

Barry Truax on what soundscape composition is and isn't.

Endangered and disappearing sounds.

The argument for designing sound from the script onward.

Little White Lies, on first-person perspective and what sound does in it.

Films with interesting sound design, kept on my Letterboxd. Where many of our class clips come from.

The rest of what I watch, if you want to compare notes or argue.

Student concerts.

Funding for undergraduate creative and research work.