Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Sound Editing For Visual Media Ep08: How to win Sound Design Competitions (Part I)
In this episode I'm using a Sound Competition I recently won to teach some sound design techniques (as well as flex a bit who are we kidding?) and talk a little bit about how to stand out with your sound design, effective storytelling through sound, and how to organize your edit session to be ready for pre-mixing.
I broke this video into two parts, so in the next video I will dive deeper into mixing, how I use some plugins, and how I designed the sound of the robot's manipulations.
Every video comes with a blog post on my website featuring notes, free downloads, and extra study materials related to the topics covered. So check it out here: iddqdsound.com/post/sound-design-for-visual-media-tutorial-notes-ep08
Download my custom actions: https://stash.reaper.fm/u/IDDQDArya
Get LKC Variator here: forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=236848
Watch the other winning entries from the competition here: asoundeffect.com/sound-design-contest-winners-soe
Donate to IDDQD Sound if you like the work I do: buymeacoffee.com/iddqdsound
Like, comment, subscribe and stay tuned for weekly Sound Editing & Design tutorials, as well as weekly tutorials on various topics in Reaper & SWS.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Chapter 1: Storytelling with Sound
2:06 Organizing your sound Palette
4:28 How to Stand out in Sound Design Competitions
6:00 My winning entry in full
6:35 Chapter 2: Item-based Editing & Project Layout
8:45 Chapter 3: Creating Variation from one sound
9:25 My Sound Design FX Template & Workflow
10:55 LKC Variator Scripts
12:15 Recording & Dynamic Splitting SFX
14:30 Chapter 4: The Experimentation Stage
15:15 How Editing to picture can affect Story
16:09 Parallel Processing in Item-based Editing
20:25 Outro & Next Episode
Sound Editing For Visual Media Ep08: How to win Sound Design Competitions (Part I)
In this episode I'm using a Sound Competition I recently won to teach some sound design techniques (as well as flex a bit who are we kidding?) and talk a little bit about how to stand out with your sound design, effective storytelling through sound, and how to organize your edit session to be ready for pre-mixing.
I broke this video into two parts, so in the next video I will dive deeper into mixing, how I use some plugins, and how I designed the sound of the robot's manipulations.
Every video comes with a blog post on my website featuring notes, free downloads, and extra study materials related to the topics covered. So check it out here: iddqdsound.com/post/sound-design-for-visual-media-tutorial-notes-ep08
Download my custom actions: https://stash.reaper.fm/u/IDDQDArya
Get LKC Variator here: forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=236848
Watch the other winning entries from the competition here: asoundeffect.com/sound-design-contest-winners-soe
Donate to IDDQD Sound if you like the work I do: buymeacoffee.com/iddqdsound
Like, comment, subscribe and stay tuned for weekly Sound Editing & Design tutorials, as well as weekly tutorials on various topics in Reaper & SWS.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Chapter 1: Storytelling with Sound
2:06 Organizing your sound Palette
4:28 How to Stand out in Sound Design Competitions
6:00 My winning entry in full
6:35 Chapter 2: Item-based Editing & Project Layout
8:45 Chapter 3: Creating Variation from one sound
9:25 My Sound Design FX Template & Workflow
10:55 LKC Variator Scripts
12:15 Recording & Dynamic Splitting SFX
14:30 Chapter 4: The Experimentation Stage
15:15 How Editing to picture can affect Story
16:09 Parallel Processing in Item-based Editing
20:25 Outro & Next Episode
