How I went full time as a sound designer

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Howdy! I'm so excited I FINALLY got to make this video about making a living as a sound designer, and also show how I worked with Lunacy Audio on their new release 'Rumble' for Cube.
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0:00 Howdy
0:31 Fair Warning
0:53 How To Find Work
2:18 Getting The Ball Rolling
3:10 Getting Paid
4:02 Project Preparation
4:55 Making Some Noise
6:42 Sound Design Demos
9:13 Sampling And Recording
10:06 Editing And Exporting
11:05 Designing Presets
11:57 Some Presets I Made
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@VenusTheory Год назад

Hopefully the video was helpful and not too boring, I did what I could! 😅 🔊 Check Out Rumble ► bit.ly/3BvGD9O ▼▼▼ Gear In This Video ▼▼▼ PWM Malevolent: bit.ly/3DLUHPh Polybrute: bit.ly/3Uzlc0u East Beast: bit.ly/3Lz0BoF West Pest: bit.ly/3Uy7tGU Iridium: bit.ly/3S6RFcF ▼▼▼ Other Studio Stuff ▼▼▼ Edison Lamps: amzn.to/31prLMm Desk: amzn.to/3Dl4J64 Chair: amzn.to/3001Xpk Computer Monitor Stand: amzn.to/3In7O9u Tripod: amzn.to/3Euissz Video Lights: amzn.to/3dpfCZW Camera: amzn.to/3xYZ7gB Lens: amzn.to/3xYZ7ND Speaker Stands: amzn.to/3InkBZt MIDI Keyboard: bit.ly/3G7OkDU Audio Interface: bit.ly/31mZExn

@useradmin1556 Год назад

The sounds are atmospheric..... indeed.. Good old Reaper....too. Thanks for sharing knowledge. You have a lot of equipment and perhaps it gets tricky when deciding & investigating whether or not you are actually allowed to use other branded euipment that creates sounds for yet other brands of gear.....? (hmm)

@SteamvilleQuintet Год назад

Enjoyed the film!

@junglepickle918 Год назад

Entertaining as always man. I can see just how much you like your work. To be honest, I prefer to consume your output (that sounds wrong) and would not enjoy the pressure of needing to produce the goods. But you continue to get it right, so keep it up.

@GlenBerry Год назад

Though I've not made a fulltime career from just sound design (yet), I have done some work for VST synth developers. I've created created presets, created samples, did a few pieces of demo music, alpha testing, beta testing, etc. In the early days of Camel Audio, I was their main tech support guy. I also wrote a piece of utility software (MorphMaker) to supplement their "Cameleon 5000" additive synth. Sound Design is something I'd love to make a fulltime living from. So for me, I thought your video was awesome! 🙂

@krisrhodes5180 Год назад

I'm trying to remember the name of this music distributor you (and others with similarly-topic'ed vlogs) occasionally plug.

@Weaverbeats Год назад

when i make noise, all i get is my neighbors calling the cops 😒

@VenusTheory Год назад

Just turn everything up louder so the cops can't hear them on the phone. Ez.

@alexprenzler6235 Год назад

Lmao

@GaryR55 Год назад

I just get my neighbors beating on my walls, stomping on my ceiling and yelling at me.

@jfklmk13447 Год назад

@@VenusTheory EZ Clap

@ignacioperandres Год назад

Asalwaystoome❤

@SwiftDreamer Год назад

Man, this is literally a dream job to me, to just experiment with sounds. I just don't know if I can make it happen

@255TomTom Год назад

You can bro, put your mind to it, keep at it and you can make it happen, brother!

@muralist_ Год назад

You can. Do it.

@AlexTad93 Год назад

Go Swift Go!

@Gnurklesquimp2 Год назад

You know... I never really considered just how freeing this job could be for some. If you're forced to put together entire arrangements, yeah, the job can get a little annoying as it's quite some commitment to something that doesn't necessarily always excite you. Then there's the sometimes stressful aspect of making an AMAZING sound and just not doing it justice with your track, this job can kinda alleviate both those things. Besides, even if the contract says you yourself would have to buy it, you don't REALLY need to choose between using it yourself or selling it. Especially no big deal if it's the kinda sample you've set up to be further adjusted from there in actual projects, if you're afraid to sell your own sound too much.

@bolttracks Год назад

The one thing that's important, a huge part of sound design is asset management. Depending on your area of expertise, you might spend hours upon hours entering metadata, setting loop points, batch converting files, performing quality control and compatibility tests etc. It definitely has to be something you love!

@sparkplugrecs.official Год назад

Being a sound designer has changed my life. Glad to see people open up about their own process to inspire others to learn to explore and advance the community/culture for all of us to travel sonic landscape together. So much sound can bring new life and expression into environments and circumstances that never had its own voice before. Definitely an underrated part of being a producer/musician.

@beatsgalore4sure452 Год назад

Its amazing how far you have come. Ive been with you since you had less then 1000 subscribers and you were taliking about Falcon. Your inspiring. You show hard work with talent can make dreams come true. Wishing you tons more success to come.

@thebreathalyzer Год назад

How long ago was that? Curious, when I discovered the channel, it was going pretty well already.

@NICUofficial Год назад

this is encouraging indeed to anyone with a dream :D

@TheLordGU Год назад

It never fails to amaze me to get at least a glimpse of what is the work artists like you do actually consists of - and getting to know at least the idea of how you do it. Thanks for sharing this! And thanks for pointing out how important, if not to say vital it is to do backups. Proper backups.

@VIRALBEATS360 Год назад

Very nice! I have been exploring a lot of your patches lately, and took a dive into Surge, last week. Keep up the good work!

@ericboone1318 Год назад

Great video! I'm glad you've shifted your content in this direction as it clearly brings you joy and is invaluable for the rest of us. I love Cube and am stoked to pick up Rumble today, even more so now that I know you designed some of the presets! Cheers!

@jazzseba Год назад

Man! This is so inspiring!!! I've been watching your content for a while and I felt overwhelmed by the amount of dedication, craftsmanship and artistry the the world of sound design has! As a saxophone player I've always flirted with it in a analog way, but this! Man... Is truly awesome! Thank you!!!

@jonathannelson5899 Год назад

Cube and the lunacy audio team are great!!! So glad to see you guys working together!!! 💪 looking forward to the results!! Great video as always, really informative and interesting, I love how you always have a great take on things with your unique perspective personally and experiences 👍

@Swedishstylek Год назад

Man, the massive smiles pinned on your face throughout the whole video just made my day - congrats VT, keep on nailing life!

@mwright80 Год назад

Excellent! One of the most useful videos I've seen for working musicians in general.

@martinlockhart3588 Год назад

Yay reaper featured! Your tutorials have been so amazingly helpful for me ... looking to publish my first atmosphere and meditation pieces by December (see I watched your tutorial on getting stuff done ;) ). Thanks for all the effort that goes into them.

@brianwdowling Год назад

Good video and great insight. Thanks. Brian

@BrofUJu Год назад

Literally bought Cube after you mentioned it, it's glorious. I work more as a composer than audio engineer but really like that you posted this, thanks.

@georgemickel6608 Год назад

Thanks so much for the video, info and your positive attitude!

@randymeredith Год назад

I am blown away by this video. As you said at the start, this info is completely unique in that No One has discussed this as you just did. My hat’s off to you.

@sivur Год назад

Is there anybody who is better than you at this? Youre a madman, also, the 60hz slap of your vocal pipes tingles my insides

@Alckemy Год назад

Lunacy audio was super kind to work with and very patient. Really enjoyed my experience with them

@shes_lucy Год назад

you don’t even know how thankful I am for this video. I’ve been heavily considering sound design as a career, but have no clue where to start. 100% subscribed 🤙

@johnfinnis8373 Год назад

Fascinating stuff, and thanks for making the video. There are similar examples from composer/producers but this is the first I've seen from someone right up the business end👍

@albshore8 Год назад

I just got cube and love it... I have not used Rumble yet but look forward to it... thanks for the video.

@Al-ys3sy Год назад

Excited to watch it after work!

@AddlerMartin Год назад

I came to know your channel last week and I have to say: good channel, good voice, good content and good photography/grading. Amazing. _Abraços do Brasil_

@VenusTheory Год назад

Thanks! I spend an inordinate amount of time on editing haha 😅

@Vivivofi Год назад

@@VenusTheory it really pays off though, it’s a goddamn pleasure watching your videos

@aluizbatista1916 Год назад

O Cam é brabo.

@AddlerMartin Год назад

@@aluizbatista1916 Hahahahaha! Top demais!

@Essential-Electronic-Music Год назад

What's that mask for?

@bryanpeace145 Год назад

love these presets! preset notes are hilarious too "that damn lake troll again" 👹

@gesslr Год назад

Fantastic video! Thank you for sharing this. (Awesome sounds also.) ❤

@wojtczyk Год назад

Thanks for sharing! This was really insightful.

@Richard_P_James Год назад

Great video - definitely lots that hits the cutting room floor on sampling and sound design projects. I always have a big folder of unused sounds and loops, but it’s part of the journey to get across the finishing line.

@muralist_ Год назад

Very inspiring and very clear in all details and ways to do the job. Thanks!

@beatfrombrain Год назад

This was awesome!

@poogedys8505 Год назад

Thanks for this, dude. It indeed was inspirational.

@amazeus1980 Год назад

You deserve it…great content and no commercial bs. ❤

@adamtaborowski Год назад

As well - very cool video ! Congrats on your work. I am always super happy seeing my PSP InfiniStrip in your videos. Enjoy ! 💪

@ringsystemmusic Год назад

I was actually thinking about getting into a career in sound design just the other day, so this is excellent timing! Looks like I’ve got a lot more work ahead of me before I can do this professionally.

@hydratek_sounds Год назад

Really awesome breakdown of your work as a sound designer, very inspiring and informative. Thank you very much 😊

@jfklmk13447 Год назад

Amazing video! Thank you!

@gregduhon5510 Год назад

Great title for this post. Glad I found your RU-vid channel. 👍🏼

@beckoning-chasm Год назад

Thank you for this, it's always interesting to learn how these things are done. Thank you for sharing some secrets.

@innerstatejt Год назад

You’re a mad genius Cam! Great work

@onlymeadow Год назад

Not a boring video in the slightest! I have adhd and never make it through most videos, but can proudly say I watched this all the way through and loved it. Thanks for sharing!

@maxdavidoff-grey6902 Год назад

awesome video man!

@KirtanFi Год назад

Thanks for the insights!

@martinlemay7037 Год назад

Great great great content video, not just another synthfluencer YT channel but very rich and helpfull stuff to help and inspired people out there. Thx a lot sir, love your honest approche.

@alchematicsounds Год назад

Just recently transitioned to this being our primary approach. Man thanks for this. Really helped with direction and execution. Salute to you brother! 🫡

@vernonfarley1700 Год назад

Nice sounds, brother!

@DmitryPuffin Год назад

Thank you for sharing your experience! Good insight.

@Ryahan Год назад

You’re really helpful. All your videos. Thanks.

@therealbasstard Год назад

dope, and congrats!

@TerenceKearns Год назад

thats pretty cool. thanks for sharing!

@PlugInGuruVideo Год назад

Cool video dude, and most importantly, cool patch names! 😎

@dashobradors Год назад

What an amazing video! Holy shit the amount of work you put in every project! I hope they pay you well as you deserve! Keep it up! 🤘🏻👹

@ToreHansen Год назад

Very interesting video as always!

@avjake Год назад

Megakudos for your success! No surprise though - your quality is consistently outstanding.

@davidgoode7416 Год назад

Great stuff, thanks for being so honest...

@NashvilleDave Год назад

This is super interesting. I do a ton of live sound in Nashville, but I’m wanting to transition into doing more work from my home studio, and this might be something I try to do on top of the occasional producing/mixing projects I do. Thanks for the info!

@sharingmatters 4 месяца назад

Great fulfillment achieved. Congrats!

@jackalisland Год назад

Inspiring as always.

@azrec440 Год назад

Dude thank you for this

@diode86 Год назад

Very inspirational. Thank you. :D

@Quash0r Год назад

Thanks for sharing how you work. You look happy when you talk about this.

@satori.studios Год назад

This video is VERY enlightening. Took notes the whole way through, as myself and some collaborators down here in New Orleans are putting together a portfolio of tracks to send to BigMode (dunkey's new indie game company). Definitely going to use damn near all the words of wisdom in this video. Thank you so much for putting so much time and heart into your content! Also my name is Cameron as well :)

@peekpen Год назад

Thanks for making your video. I'm learning my first synth throughout- Logic Pros Alchemy.

@BenThatcherMusic Год назад

Excellent video 👏👏👏

@ElectronisoundsAudio Год назад

Really enjoyed this! Thanks! 😁👊

@erazeTHEborders Год назад

Really great video and helpful insights. Also beautiful to see some Reaper love :)

@TonyThomas10000 Год назад

I love sound design. So much fun!

@musicexplorations808 Год назад

Thx, especially the part of having 100 experiments and throwing 90 away. Started doing this. Making song mock ups, recordings etc and just first spend searching for the sounds in a song. Really helps improving what I'm doing. It's always nice to watch videos of people sharing there knowledge as wannabe home producer...

@SumnSumnSumnHTK Год назад

You murdered that pack fam!!!

@MelloDeeBeats Год назад

I appreciate this video, very informative & entertaining at the same time. Actually made me wanna get some analog gear for the sound design, I already wanted some just for composition.

@TeddyTOG 4 месяца назад

Textures, soundscapes, SFX, building tension through sonics, etc. Directors look for this more now than ever before. There is demand for this work. And the space is not oversaturated yet. Great video.

@Richard_P_James Год назад

For those working with Logic, the Auto Sampler is fantastic for making looped multisample patches of your midi synths - and also plugin synths. It’s based on the old Redmatica software.

@H3rdKl3nSing Год назад

Good shoutout. Auto Sampler is great!

@freshkidblaze Год назад

I felt that 10% line. I always think I have an idea on the direction I want to go with samples/loops before getting started after reading a brief but I have to treat it like the gym . . I have to do a few "warm ups" before I do the real lifting 🤣.

@VenusTheory Год назад

Can't remember where I heard this but "gotta crap a few turds to find the gold bars"

@ScotDykstra Год назад

Those synths during the Sound Design Demos were a wet dream to hear. So f'ing sick. Thank you for sharing! This could easily be in a book you charge for. EDIT 7:00 thru 8:00 mins geez man.

@abj358 Год назад

I've watched quite a few of your vids. But I've never seen that big smile! Somebody's jazzed.

@gylp2 Год назад

I love creating feedback loops and endless drones and soundscapes with feild recordings of sounds recorded inside MY Home with MY h5 recorder

@michaelmilburn3094 Год назад

Thanks for mentioning Sample Robot. Seems it could be useful even for non-professionals who build sample sets. I build some of my own Kontakt instruments and trimming up the sample and editing loop points always takes so long and the tools often just aren't the best for seeing what you're doing. Sample Robot sounds like it's built specifically just for this task.

@infinitedurr Год назад

Hey Cameron, request: Do a full video on on the Iridium making nasty FM DnB / Dubstep style basses. There is a glaring hole on youtube of people making bass music sounds on any of the new Waldorf synths. Would be so great to hear. Also, fantastic video!!!

@AndreaGiordaniComposer Год назад

Brill video ! 👌

@MrDeeKayTV Год назад

Great content

@TheBeardsShow Год назад

Big up to Reaper. I love that DAW it's so so good.

@gregklump8599 Год назад

Great video. Getting paid to do sound design? You're living my dream! That said, I know all too well that that being a professional means being paid to do what you love to do & what you're good at doing at a time you don't necessarily want to do it. And I'm not sure if I could handle the stress of uncertainty about where my next billable is coming from.* Accordingly, I'll continue to live vicariously through you & just keep plonking away as a hobby for my own enjoyment/satisfaction. Thx for being awesome & keep on keeping on :) * Actually I know I couldn't. I did the gig paycheck thing in a former life & the experience strongly suggests that my physical & mental health would suffer.

@dafingaz Год назад

Awesome stuff. Let’s go!

@Djpuzzle Год назад

Excellent production as usual! Which brings me to my point. As someone who is a full time sound designer/muso I don't know how you find time to be a youtuber as well. Would love to see a video about how you manage to pull that off as I'm always just so busy writing music, working on sound design gigs for new products (under tons of NDAs), and running my two s corps and all the crazy admin stuff that follows (both music businesses one is publishing / production music / metadata). I have tons of ideas for helpful informative videos written down but I never have time to work on them and as you know a high quality video for RU-vid can sometimes take 1-2 working days if not more. Would love to get some insight into how you manage to make time for your youtube channel considering how busy you are with sound design work. cheers

@cursedmuse6951 Год назад

War dance sounds amazing dude

@ignacioperandres Год назад

¡Gracias!

@laserfloyd Год назад

I often ask myself if I could do anything for the rest of my life what would it be. Without hesitation, it's music and/or sound design. I love it. I love all the countless possibilities and all the quirks, the nuances, and the list just goes on. I know just enough to be dangerous so it's not going to be a career change for me anytime soon. I can see the appeal though as there's something magical about sound. 😊

@JU-tt2zh Год назад

Literally bought a malevolent just a week ago, crazy to see it here now!

@ichiro-ota Год назад

It's exciting to see you using Reaper. I also use it for audio processing (not for MIDI programming 😀), and I totally agree that it's pretty powerful when it comes to automation. Everything is virtually automatable with ReaScript, and this is really a powerful tool for a software engineer like me.

@MistyMusicStudio Год назад

Firstly, I'd like to apologize for ruining the 666 on your video likes [number 667 here lol]. I've been doing lessons and recording as my main income for quite some time, and been wanting to take on additional music-related work / side hustle. I had a vague idea of where to begin but this honestly so helpful 👏 Thank you! P.S. LOVE your War Dance and Mad God presets ✨

@Homework-asmr Год назад

Yaaaaaaaaaassssssss queen!!!

@VenusTheory Год назад

👑💃💅

@rainbowkrampus Год назад

The East Beast and West Pest are ridiculously good. I kinda want another pair. If they put out a version without the keys/sequencer I'd probably buy enough of them to make some kind of decorative wall feature.

@wishcloudstudios Год назад

Didn't understand a thing. But thanks for explaining it. Hopefully, (as I learn more about sound design) I will be able to use the knowledge you have provided.

@Feraget1 Год назад

Hey, nice new Video! If you allow the question, what happened to your Arturia Midi-Keyboard?

@ralfmoss Год назад

Instant sub

@NICUofficial Год назад

those sounds at 7:45 remind me of one of the best sounds on the Westworld soundtrack

@starsky101 Год назад

Great video, there have been similar from people like Christian Henson, but not on the sound creation element of the industry so much. I have soooooo many questions, being a project manager myself I wonder how long was the project from agreeing the brief to delivery and how do you monitor your progress and lastly do you work on just that project from beginning to end or, like so many people, do you have to juggle 15 different projects. Thank you for sharing.