Sound Design Production Day

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
by Kevin K. Shah

We had an excellent sound design session one day last week with Mr. Zach Seivers - an incredibly talented sound designer that we’ve been lucky to have worked with on a number of projects, most notably White Knuckles and Heart of Now. Zach’s attention to detail and enthusiasm for exploring his art with sound was in full effect during the session, which was grueling and lasted most of the day.

For anyone that’s never went around field recording in a large, old building - (that’s operational but after hours) - please, please try it. It’s a mediation of sorts on the sonic landscape that surrounds you that most of us barely notice. It’s and adventure, and we explore with our ears, and use our other senses to grasp how in fact we can better record what we are hearing.

Zach used a Sanken CSS-5 and swears by it: