Cleaning Up Your Soundminer database with SMDB Companion app: Tips from Designer Tim Farrell

Award-winning sound designer Tim Farrell developed the SMDB Companion (Soundminer Database Companion) app that makes it easy to find and remove duplicate files in your database. Here, he shares his inspiration for creating the SMDB Companion, explains how it works, shares different ways to narrow searches, offers tips on useful features, and more!

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The Sound of The Last of Us S2: Inside the Epic Battles, Infected Hordes & Hidden Details

Max’s hit series The Last of Us raises the intensity to new heights in Season 2. Here’s Michael Benavente, Christopher Battaglia, and Chris Terhune on how the sound team designed massive hordes of infected using only three voice actors, kept rain interesting using bespoke water recordings, re-created the Seraphites’ whistle-based communication, and so much more!

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Crafting the Sensational Sound of ‘Sinners’ – with Benjamin A. Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, David Butler, and Felipe Pacheco

The SINNERS post sound team dives deep into their approach of capturing live on-set musical performances, worldizing music stems in the Juke Joint filming location, building believably massive Juke Joint crowds using production recordings, foley, and loop group, crafting experiential musical moments, creating a realistic day to night transition using specific insect and bird recordings, designing natural-sounding vampires, perfecting the immersive Dolby Atmos and IMAX mixes, and much, much more!

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Diving Deeper into Andor S2’s Superb Sound: Building Sonic Intensity for Ep. 208 – with David Acord and Margit Pfeiffer

David Acord (Re-Recording Mixer/Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor and Margit Pfeiffer (Dialogue & ADR Supervisor/Supervising Sound Editor) at Skywalker Sound break down their sound work scene by scene on Ep. 208 “Who Are You?” — up for Emmy consideration for both Sound Editing and Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour):

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Designing Disquieting Sound for ‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 – with Tom Jenkins, James Hayday, James Ridgway, Poppy Kavanagh, and Alex Sawyer

Explore the disquieting sound for ‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 with sound supervisor/sound designer Tom Jenkins, sound designer James Hayday, re-recording mixer James Ridgway, music editor Poppy Kavanagh, and supervising dialogue editor Alex Sawyer, who dive into their sound work on “USS Callister: Into Infinity,” “Eulogy,” “Hotel Reverie,” and “Plaything.”

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