Karol Urban Interviews Pioneering Sound Recordist and Designer, Ann Kroeber, for Designing Sound

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Karol Urban has a new interview article out this month for Designing Sound where she was blessed to have the pleasure of chatting with Ann Kroeber, a true sound design artist and expert recordist.  Read the full Interview here.

Some of Ann’s past contributions include:

The Black Stallion
Elephant Man
Star Wars Trilogy
Dune
Blue Velvet
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Horse Whisperer
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
World of WarCraft
Dragon Age
Spore

Karol Urban Provides Sound Design for The Adrenalist Campaign for Degree

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Karol Urban provided sound design for The Adrenalist Campaign for Degree. In addition to the branding SFX and telemetry FX used for the graphics package for the online Adrenaline Lab videos, she also provided complete sound design and re-recording mix for the Theatrical Trailer and first 4 episodes of the Adrenaline Lab webisodes, including 2 featurettes on Bear Grylls, and featurettes on Kevin Jorgeson, and Jeremy Jones. Each episodes explores the feelings of adrenaline experienced by these thrill seeking extreme sports celebrities. Learn more here.

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We Have Sync!

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We have a new addition to the Urban Audio house. We call him Sync. He’s a 3 month-old Sphinx & he is officially “adorable.”

The first night he stayed with us we wanted to make certain that he wasn’t overwhelmed with the new space (and knew where to poop), so we confined him to our bathroom. At about 3:00 AM he began to mew like he was tied in a burlap sack and floating down the Potomac. So we did what any good parent would do, we woke up and went in to comfort him by sticking a microphone in his face.

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Waves Sound Design Competition

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We here at UAP have used Waves plug-ins since we were notching out our first frequencies. So when they teamed up with one of our favorite websites, designingsound.org, to put their first competition in place, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to take part.

The rules were simple: use only the sounds provided, manipulate them with the plug-ins they provided, edit them to the picture they provided.

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The Yeti

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Our friend, Shaun Farley, runs DynamicInterference. For six months now he’s been hosting a monthly sound design challenge. It’s a fantastic contribution to the growing on-line community of sound editors and designers from all parts of the industry. Due to my schedule I had been unable to participate so far, but in the calm after the storm that is the year-end push, I found myself with enough time and energy to participate in this month’s challenge. Since I apparently helped bring rise to it’s theme, I thought it would be appropriate to take part.

Besides, who can’t use more Yeti screams?
SDC006 Yeti FX by Steve Urban

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Tactile Dinner Theater

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Delving into a new realm, Urban Audio Post has provided it’s first theatrical sound design for Banished? Productions’ Tactile Dinner @ Long View Gallery.

This dinner theater production inspired by F.T. Marinetti’s Futurist Cookbook made it’s original premiere at the 2009 DC Capital Fringe Festival. But for this newest installment Artistic Director, Carmen Wong wanted to turn the multi-sensory dining experience on it’s ear with a “Futurist” soundtrack. Delightfully, she turned to Urban Audio Post’s Karol Urban.

Karol Urban recreates Vintage Plane Sounds for Military Channel

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Karol Urban was challenged with recreating all vintage plane sounds in post for the Military Channel Series Showdown Air Combat.

“While neither the budget nor the time available to complete the project changed, the scope of work greatly increased due to the lack of production materials. I had the choice to either do some hunting and some research on engine styles and recreate in post the air combat scenes, or mix them like music videos.

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UAP to Provide Sound Design & Mix for White Tiger Legend

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Kory Juul was so pleased with our work on The Sandbox, that he has asked UAP to provide sound design and mix for his new proof of concept piece for his White Tiger Legend project. We love all the work required on these animation pieces!