Sound Particles Blog

And the recipients of the 2020 Scientific & Technical Awards Are...

Read time: 10 min.    Proficiency Level: Beginner

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this past weekend the 17 scientific and technical achievements represented by individual award recipients, as well as companies. They were honored in a virtual Scientific and Technical Awards presentation on February 13 and we have the full list for you!

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How Paul Boechler Created Live Stadium Crowds From FIFA Recordings

Read time: 15 min.    Proficiency Level: Intermediate

Due to the current COVID-19 situation, a huge majority of sports stadiums all around the world have no audience whatsoever attending. To increase viewers’ engagement during the transmission of the matches, some international broadcasters have requested Electronic Arts (EA) to help them simulate crowd sounds during their broadcasts. Paul Boechler, sound designer on EA’s FIFA franchise, was the one responsible for creating the dynamic crowd audio playback system that is currently being used by broadcast companies such as Sky Sports, BT and BBC. And he was very kind to share his experience with us and to also tell us a little bit of the process behind the creation of the sounds used in the games.

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The Big Winners of the 2021 TEC Awards

Read time: 6 min.    Proficiency Level: Beginner

This year, the winners of the TEC Awards were announced at NAMM's Believe in Music week. These awards recognize and celebrate the individuals, companies and technical innovations behind the sound of recordings, live performances, films, television, video games, and multimedia. You can find the full list of the winners below along with a big Congratulations! from everyone at Sound Particles.

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Interview with Dan Kenyon

Read time: 12 min.    Proficiency Level: Beginner

Dan Kenyon is a sound designer and sound effects editor who has worked in projects such as Star Trek, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, Spiderman: Far From Home, and more recently in The Trial of the Chicago 7. He is an Emmy winner, a great professional with a vast resumé, and he uses Sound Particles!
Get to know more about the way he works in the industry and how he uses our software in this new interview.

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Getting to know the mind behind Sound Particles

Read time: 15 min.    Proficiency Level: Beginner

For Sound Particles, it all started way back in 2005 when this company was nothing but a dream in Nuno Fonseca's mind, a small idea that was too big to ever be brought to fruition.
Here's the great part about this story - how the small start-up that could went from being the brainchild of a university professor to developing a software being used in all major Hollywood studios, being integrated in AAA video games, and being an indispensable tool for a lot of sound professionals.
In this interview, Nuno tells us all about his career path, the growth of Sound Particles and his passion for 3D Audio.

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Creative Arts Emmys: Sound and Music

Read time: 12 min.    Proficiency Level: Beginner

The Creative Arts Emmys winners were announced over the past week, covering a wide range of genres, departments and talent. However, for sound and music lovers like us, there are a set of results that interest us more than others, and we got these results ready for you to read! No need to scan through the lists of five nights of awards, they're all here for you in one place. 

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36th Annual TEC Awards Nominees

Read time: 15 min.    Proficiency Level: Beginner

The TEC Awards is a year-round celebration that recognizes and celebrates the individuals, companies and technical innovations behind the sound of recordings, live performances, films, television, video games, and multi-media. This year, the awards will be part of the online event, Believe in Music Week. You can find the full list of the nominees below.

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Ready To Embrace 3D Audio?

Read time: 9 min.    Proficiency Level: Beginner

Confused with all the 3D Audio terms that keep coming up? Have you tried searching for answers, only to find them scattered through several articles and guides? This quick guide offers you a summary of what you need to know and what the future holds for Immersive Sound. 

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Interview with Jeremy Peirson

Read time: 15 min.    Proficiency Level: Beginner

We interviewed Jeremy Peirson, a Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer, and Re-recording Mixer for the Apple+ show See. Peirson has dozens of credits on different projects and he has also been a Sound Particles user for quite some time. We were fortune to have him sit down with us for this interview and talk about all things related to audio work and Sound Particles.

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Using Sound Particles to turn a few recordings into a crowd with Jeremy Peirson

Read time: 10 min.    Proficiency Level: Beginner

We interviewed Jeremy Peirson; Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer, and Re-recording Mixer for the Apple+ show See. For this show, Jeremy had very specific challenges when designing the sounds for a future world where mankind has been left blind. We talked to him about how Sound Particles helped him on that journey.

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Improvise with Sound Particles

Read time: 2 min.    Proficiency Level: Beginner

We’ve released a trilogy of tutorials that we hope will inspire you to unleash your creativity with Sound Particles, as well as teach you tools and tricks that you might not have known yet.

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