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Here are some books you can check out:
As an exercise, I would also recommend watching movies with good sound design and figure out how you would achieve a similar sound on your own.
Best of luck to you!
Online Articles
Designing a movie for sound by Randy Thom
The sound of Star Wars by Ben Burt
Plus most other articles on filmsound
Books
Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound by David Yewdall
Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema by David Sonnenschein
This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel J. Levitin Not directly sound design but still very interesting and useful.
Websites
Sound Works Collection
Designing Sound
Film Sound
These are just some of my personal picks but I'm sure there are plenty more resources out there.
Start with Marshall McGee: He's one of the Sound Designer who worked on Just Cause 4 among other things, and he makes a lot of bite-sized, info-rich videos that are just fantastic.
Then of course, you should read the works of some of the professionals in this field: The Sound Design Bible by Ric Viers and Sound Design by David Sonnenschein would both be good places to start.
Obviously, you should also get out there and record, as soon as possible :) You'll need a portable recorder, and one or two mics. Obviously, it's entirely possible to do sound design using nothing but samples, but you'll be skipping one of the key steps of making great sounds. Great sound design begins by great sound recording, and knowing how to get your very own, unique, high quality sounds is not only a key step in this process, it's also a lot of fun. I started with a Zoom F4 for my recorder, and it works like a charm for its price. For microphones, you'll want either a shotgun microphone (particularly if you're doing Foley), or a pair of mics capable of handling various tasks. My first microphones ever were a pair of Oktava mk-012, and they're great, reliable microphones.
For DAWs, as always, there is no right answer, and whichever DAW you're comfortable using is the right DAW. I'd recommend Reaper, as it's dirt cheap and is just as good if not better than many, more expensive "studio standards" like ProTools, but, again, whichever DAW you're comfortable with is the right DAW.
And finally, welcome ! It's always nice to see new people interested in Sound Design.
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This book: Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema is exactly what you would want then.
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Alternatively get someone with experience in sound design to work on your projects, there's a lot of us budding sound designers out there, myself included who are looking for work on projects.
/u/Laika_Come_Home - the best beginning book for shooters who want to understand audio is Ric Viers' [Location Sound Bible] (http://www.amazon.com/Location-Sound-Bible-Record-Professional/dp/1615931201/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=battleforthew-20).
For sound design and making your audio "stand out", I recommend [Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema] (http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Design-Expressive-Effects-Cinema/dp/0941188264/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=battleforthew-20) [Referral Links].
For a total of about $40, these two books should give you a good foundation to build on.
Hope this is helpful and good luck!
> this sub has kind of ignored it
Sorry, but you are mistaken. The subreddit itself is open to all facets of the topic of Audio Post. Nowhere are the mods removing or discouraging artistic discussion in any way. We've certainly tried to encourage discussions regarding artistic choices via some of the automated posts in the past. Therefore, if one part of it is not being addressed by the random decisions of people coming here enough to your liking, then please do post about it more.
In the wiki (which people are free to add things to), the Specializations page has several links applicable to this, starting with the fifth link down
> Book - Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures: A Guide to the Invisible Art [Paperback]
> http://www.amazon.com/Dialogue-Editing-Motion-Pictures-Invisible/dp/0240809181/
there's also
> Book - Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema [Paperback] - http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Design-Expressive-Effects-Cinema/dp/0941188264/
> YouTube Sound Design Videos Tutorial on Organic Textures - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuAYMv5tpL8
> Tutorial on Atmosphere Sounds - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPR_Xjwccv8
> Tutorial on Impact Sounds - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMgovfQjxUA
The Links page in the wiki offers numerous blogs and podcasts to check out and many cover the art of audio quite extensively.
If you think there is a lack of opportunity in the posts here for artistic discussion, it is only because you've chosen to see it that way. Any one of these could have been opened up to that facet of AP
For instance, posts like these would be great for opening up artistic discussion / interpretation
These posts were more specifically about artistic choices or were extremely applicable to them;
TLDR - Look again
Pro Tools 100%. Standard in any post studio. You can get a massive discount if you're a student, £200 in the UK instead of retail which is £699. studica.com sells it
Check out: Pro Tools is Awesome, a load of great tips working with dialogue in Pro Tools.
Books:
Any questions you have id be happy to answer, I'm a location sound guy now but at one point I was going down the post audio career route(mixed a few shorts, web-series and a feature).
http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Design-Expressive-Effects-Cinema/dp/0941188264/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8
Michel Chion's Audio-Vision is about as definitive a book as we're likely to get about the use of sound in film and its analysis. There's an edition with a foreword by Walter Murch that I recommend. These two writings by Murch are also good tools to have in your arsenal. David Sonnenschein's book on Sound Design will add even more robustness to your analytical ability.
"Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema" by David Sonnenschein is well worth checking out.
http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Design-Expressive-Effects-Cinema/dp/0941188264/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
People doing sound for video will get a little more out of it but anyone interested in the art of making noises will get a lot from this book. Lots of detail about how we perceive sound and useful tips on things like creating a mood, getting an emotional response, use of gestalt, repetition etc that I havent seen elsewhere. Highly recommended!
I can recommend two books:
The Sound Effects Bible which is excellent for giving you tips on how to listen to sound, not just hear it, not just hear sounds. and Sound Design by David Sonnenschein
which is more theory andform based, but is excellent for giving you ideas in terms of narrative structure and flow through a story using sound design.
If you're interest is more than a little serious, I would also strongly recommend buying a stereo field recorder, like a Zoom H4n or something similar. it's completely self contained so all you need to do is point and record. It's really good for recording sounds and ambiences on the spot and impromptu recordings. (You'll need an SD card, get a big one, you'll want to record everything!!!)
This is how I got started and I've certainly not regretted it, even from a hobbyist point of view it's not a bad thing to be spending your life doing in my opinion.
Hope this was useful.
Edit: link code fail.
You can hear audio samples of different recorders here: http://www.wingfieldaudio.com/portable-recorder-noise.html
It's an amazing resource.
Read books, websites, PRACTICE.
http://designingsound.org/
http://www.amazon.com/The-Sound-Effects-Bible-Hollywood/dp/1932907483
http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Design-Expressive-Effects-Cinema/dp/0941188264
https://vimeo.com/45587080#at=0
Sound Design - David Sonnenschein
is a good book!