Timeline for Are Questions on Production, mixing and mastering allowed on the site?
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| Nov 6, 2014 at 18:04 | comment | added | TaylorSwiftFan5932 | Take a look at sound design for visual media. Dialogue, effects, ambience (atmosphere), and music are all considered integral dynamics of the sound design of the work. For a lot of people, sound design is much more than "sculpting new sound with synthesis and sampling". I can also refer you to sources that share my definition (Emroy University sound design course, David Sonnenschein's Sound Design book, and even the Wikipedia entry, to name a few), and that's my whole point: the definition changes depending on who you ask. | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 17:50 | comment | added | TaylorSwiftFan5932 | Oscillators, operators, samplers are nothing more than sound sources. In the case of recording engineers the sound source is the musician. Instead of envelope, filter, (etc) knobs they use angles, distances, mic choice. The musician is designing sound too, shaping it through the performance details and device choice. Sound design isn't exclusive to synths and samplers. Foley artists are the fathers of sound design, they are considered sound designers, they carve their sounds acoustically, and capture them using microphones, and they worry about recording accurately. | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 16:04 | comment | added | Iain Duncan | Sound Design is a subset of music production. Within the music community "Sound Design" means something. It doesn't mean recording, mixing, and mastering a live band. Seriously. Look on Amazon for books on Sound Design and check the table of contents. Sound Design is about sculpting new sound with synthesis and sampling techniques and processing to make them new, not capturing existing sound accurately. SE can keep the sound design site named as is, but musicians will keep posting production questions here because they won't think it belongs on a forum called Sound Design. | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 7:10 | comment | added | TaylorSwiftFan5932 | Regarding sound design, what is being done in films, music, video games, and synthesis circles than isn't being done in music production? | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 5:58 | comment | added | Iain Duncan | No, that is incorrect. I've worked in live music, acoustic production, and pure synthesis contexts. No one calls regular acoustic music production "sound design", they just don't. If the SE were named "Music Production & Sound Design" that would make sense, but "sound design" is a term largely used in film music, video game, and synthesis circles. It's never heard in regular music production circles. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 23:24 | comment | added | TaylorSwiftFan5932 | It might be a "real stretch" by your definition, but sound design is not a well defined concept and the meaning changes depending on who you ask. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 22:45 | history | answered | Iain Duncan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |