Sound Design Course

I began my first official all encompassing sound production and design course this quarter at O.U. I have a great passion to develop the skills necessary to achieve success through mastery of cinematic sound production. Monday my professor took us on an adventure touring the multiple audio engineering studios and control rooms in the Radio and Television building and Kantner hall. Most were just typical production rooms designed for vocal recording via pro-tools and audio board mixing. One highlight of our little tour was finally getting the surprise of seeing a Mackie TT24 digital console! I had tried for years(literally Years) to get my hands on one, but even after a huge deposit that was made to secure my place in the back order line they kept telling me keep waiting. So eventually I pulled my money and forgot the idea. But I did get to actually see one and who knows maybe they'll even let me use it in some type of learning experiment or project. But some were much greater in character, such as the theatre departments basement theatre. That was a scary place, it even had it's own ecology living on the walls of the tightly bricked-in dungeon. Any way, my prof Lowell seems like a really well versed guy in this area. He had even mentioned specifically about some Foley mailing lists he was a member of. With all kinds of neat info sent between professionals in that sector of the biz. pertaining to the production of effect sound, such as the specific temperatures and cuts of meat to use for the battering sounds in fight scenes. We saw a sample of some student work laden with sound effect overlays decorating a piece of Godzilla film footage. I can hardly wait till next Monday.