David Farmer, best known for his sound design work on the Lord of The Rings trilogy has finished with his guest blogging contributions as featured professional for Designing Sound. Here you can find links to all of his efforts during the month of September.

Ren Kylce and Michael Semanick of Skywalker Sound talk about their work on the upcoming David Fincher film, The Social Network. In the video they talk about why ear bleeding volume levels needed to be turned up, automating Trent Reznor’s music stems across all the channels and why you’re going to want to keep your [...]

Jake Riehle over at Designing Sound has posted an interview with Aaron Glascock and Curt Schulkey, Sound Supervisors for the recently released Ben Affleck film, The Town.  It’s a great chat that goes into detail about all of the hard work that went into restoring the production soundtrack, which is part of the reason it [...]

Wired has posted a cool video showcasing the new book The Sounds of Star Wars.  In the video you can go back in time and see Ben Burtt and Randy Thom recording and mixing material for the series.  It’s a great video, check it out after the jump.

Designing Sound creator, Miguel Isaza has launched a new website dedicated to field recording. “Sonic Terrain is a portal for the art, science, and craft of field recording. It will aggregate information and publish exclusive content focused on sounds recorded outside the studio. Topics will be cross-disciplinary and focused on the use of field recordings [...]

In this video you’ll hear Burtt get grilled by Attractions Magazine while he was in Florida attending Star Wars Celebration V.  They’ll ask tough questions like whether he considers himself a Sith or Jedi.  Or what about a Ewok or a Wookie?  Who will he choose!?  He also talks about Wall-E and reusing sound effects [...]

There have been a bunch of rumors floating around now about new interfaces that Avid will be announcing today.  After the jump you can see pictures of some of them.  There is also a new saturation plug-in called Heat being released.

I got out to see Scott Pilgrim this weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you’re a video game/comic book nerd like I am you’ll probably feel the same way. Other than just plane sounding good, the soundtrack is filled with tons of subtle little audio gems like nostalgic sounds from Zelda and other 8-bit classic [...]

Editor’s Guild magazine has an article up talking with the world’s most interesting man, Randy Thom about his work on The Last Airbender.  He talks about his mixing process and what M. Night Shyamalan wanted for the soundtrack.  You can also read a little bio about his career near the end of the article.

Since his propulsive start in the genre with such scores as “The Hunted,” “Timeline” and “Paparazzi,” Tyler’s innovative brand of adrenalin has been catching fire in Hollywood. It’s an ability to play every style of mayhem from swordfights to car chases and gut-busting punches, than scale up that excitement like one of those relentless musical [...]