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Original Score and Sound Design by Radium Audio

How much love can we throw at a James Bond trailer? This is the question we ask ourselves ... how far will we go to capture, create and authenticate an original sound for Bond? Quite far, as it turns out. Short of selling a body part (though at times, we may risk losing one) we do throw ourselves into this to be able to bring to the world of Bond 100% authentic sound from Radium, every impact, bullet, boom and thud crafted from our own hands ...

Sky Movies 007 HD
The BSkyB launch of the new Bond channel is inevitably going to make a huge splash and our trailer has to do the same. Sky tell us they know it's just the right job for Radium because of our considerable experience in recording cars, guns and explosions, and because they also know how far we like to push things when we're given the headroom to max it out. As soon as we see the first visual cut we know we're heading down the rabbit hole and staying there until we've driven ourselves as far as we can to get exactly the right sound for the right car, the right impacts for the right scrape, gunshot, and twist and turn. 

Bond v Car v Baddie
So ... all the Bonds ... all in one place .. this is the new channel ... with stunning visuals brilliantly executed by Sky Creative, the Bonds weaving in and out of each scene racing, overtaking, evading enemy fire. Next up the cars ... we track down, trek to and capture the sounds of the Aston Martin, Lotus, Sunbeam, as well as the three vehicles that we buy, drop from a great height and smash to pieces to record and create some mega impacts. 

We travel all over the country to record these supercars and spend a lot of time capturing the precise motor, exhaust, pass-by and take off from each vehicle using the same approach as we have done in the past for Ferrari, Mercedes, and Bentley projects, as well as 200+ cars recorded for the games industry.. using onboard microphones and real time on load recordings. 

Then we hire out a scrap yard and buy 3 cars which we proceed to drop, crash, smash and drive over.. the results are perfect source material to create the detail that is integral to the Bond trailer, the scraping, twisted metal on concrete, the sheer weight impacts as the cars drop from the height emulating the physical sound of a car crash in real life.

Tick Tick Boom.. 
Now the guns.. real, heavy, loud ... quite scary how having an AK-47 in hand brings out our inner baddies and handling a HK G36C flips us into a 00 agents in a matter of seconds ... the AK-47 weighs a ton. The guns are loud and very intense as is really obvious from the footage ... Andrew shell shocking ... while Peter coolly delivers just the right Bond-esq poses. The AK-47 was the loudest, for the record.

The Score
With our authentically recorded source material and finely detailed sound design playing the key role in driving the narrative forward, we write the music to focus around strings, brass, piano and lots of taiko drumming for a sense of urgency and excitement, layering in high impact booms and thuds to punctuate the action.

All of the audio in this trailer is "handcrafted" inhouse at Radium, our "BSkyB Bond Behind the Scenes" minifilm below invites you to spend just a couple of minutes behind the scenes with us in our sonic world. 

Quantum of Bonds for BskyB - Radium Sound Layers

NEWS - I/O (Input / Output) Creative Series EP01 - Trailer Growls

Hello and Very Excited to share with you I/O (Input / Output)
A new series from Radium. based on us sharing our creativity, exploration, content, research, experimentation and designed to help you our fellow creatives.

Here is Episode 01 - Trailer Growls …which are popular in media music at the moment. Listen as the sounds grow from a single source into a tension grabbing growl .. we are calling Trailer Growls .

#trailer #music #learning #insider #school #workshops #synth #foley #soundesign #soundworkshops #io #inputoutout #howtogetaheadinmedia #radium

I/O EP01 - Trailer Growls - We talk about latest technique

I/O (Input / Output) Creative Series EP02 - Modular Madness

Welcome to Episode 02 of I/O our focus is creating moving sounds we call this "Modular Madness".. So much is put on how things sound.... but Sound Design and Music is also (at least for us..) is about how they move and sit in the sound image

So in this Episode we are creating analogue modular sounds which when put through the "Flight of Harmony" Euro Module "Choices" move have have shapes to them, which is very important in creating sound design .. when as sound moves it has life to it / and those movements create really great layers for designing / hybrid and foley designed layers.

Think about how many amazing digital sounds you have heard in modern SCI FI films… its very likely these have all been performed..
which is a big part of how we express shapes, forms and movingness in the sounds.. Great things you can create with movement is whooshes, lands, slides, reverse into, motion graphics, typography movements, game sounds, magic reveals and so much more.

So .. the Module being used is called “choices” and you can read more about these - here http://www.flightofharmony.com/?page_id=9 // also current scoop on Ebay is zero.. so people seem to be keeping a hold of these lovely Euro units .. here is Modular Grid https://www.modulargrid.net/e/flight-of-harmony-choices …

let us know what you think..
Got something you want us to explore / experiment with comment below .. see you on Episode 03 .. 

#sounddesign #howtocreatesounds #designersecrets #modular #eurorack #education #learning #insider #school #workshops #synth #foley #soundesign #soundworkshops #io #inputoutout #howtogetaheadinmedia #radium #flightofharmony #choices #plaguebearer #joystick #potentiometers

I/O EP02 - Modular Madness - We talk about movement technique

I/O (Input / Output) Creative Series EP03 - Testing 1,2,3

Welcome to Episode 03 of I/O … As a sound design focussed team ..
We love Microphones… !! no seriously .. we LOOOOOOOOVVVEEEE MICROPHONES…

and we got's lots of them, some to record the heartbeat of a snail, some for underwater recording, some for recording electricity, some for just recording things so small the microphone it TINY! and some to .. well you get the picture its allot ..

But what we didn’t have was a humble and highly practical podcast microphone… and now we need one .. So ..for I/O so we decided to test a few and do it in a very normal way .. so we could hear which ones we felt connected best with our needs..

there are pro’s and cons to all the microphones we tested .. and here we test the mikes in this Episode 03 Part 1 ‘Testing 1,2,3".. this mini (tiny) small series of how we found our microphone of choice for our Podcast show .. I/O

Part 1 .. the Mikes .. we put then through their paces..
Part 2 .. the Mike we chose .. we select the mike, we share with you why
Part 3 .. the Mike that didn’t turn up on time .. but we now test it and give you our verdict .. and show you how we process the sounds

First things first .. some of the mikes we ordered didn’t turn up on time… so we will do a Part 3… but will also include the sound processing we did to make them all sound amazing .. / yes a bit of post production was needed ..

hopefully if you are looking for a podcast microphone you can avoid having to trial lots of microphones and use this guide to get to the good stuff without having to spend too much $$$ …

So, if you like sound, podcasts, looking for a quick fix on which mikes to buy for you speaking / talking sessions .. have a check of this mini series within I/O .. and once we have covered these.. we will move onto more creative subjects.. and some crazy sound design stuff we are cooking up ..

#recording #recordingstudio #mixing #protools #studiolife #studio #musicstudio #studioporn #musicproduction #studioflow #homestudio #mastering #gearporn #studios #studiosession #studiotime #producerlife #producer #gearslutz #producing #musiclife #musicproducer #ableton #ssl #beats #audio #rockband #inthestudio #audioengineer #homerecording

I/O EP01 - Testing 1,2,3 - We test 4 microphones ...

I/O (Input / Output) Creative Series EP07 - Akai S950 Part 1
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Do NOT get in the way of my love of the Akai S950! 
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Welcome to Episode 07 of I/O …Like Hip Hop? well chances are if you do like Hip Hop, Drum & Bass, Jungle, Dubstep, House, Techno, and more and more .. you will have heard the S950 in use .. its a sound design powerhouse and we like it.. however .. as much as well like it .. Oberyn.. in fact he goes way beyond liking it he positively has a love affair .. and this 3 part series goes into why you will love it to.. introducing Akai S950
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 You have all heard of the miracle powers of bit crush and how this can add some nice warm flavours to your sound design & music.. well meet one of the first generation 12bit machines. we have a special Guest Sheldon - aka Oberyn who has created a 3 part episode for you to all hear the Akai S950 in all its glory. Oberyn will take us on a a journey .. here is the first part .. with assistance from Barry Moonlight on the walkthroughs .. smooth and lovely .. 
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The Akai S950 is great for 8 voice sample building, especially on Drums, timestretch, punchiness, chords, sampling, hardware overdrive. saturation, looping, cross fading, warm deep textures, sub bass
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Find out More: http://www.vintagesynth.com/akai/s900...
Find out More: http://www.polynominal.com/akai-s950/...
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#Akai #learning #school #soundschool #soundesign #mediacourse #electronic #foley #creativesound #soundfx #sound #verbos #synth #modular #sounddesign #attackmagazine #music #design #emmy #remix #deep #futuremusic
#electronicmusic #funny #techno #s950 #sampling #sp1200 #12bit

Do NOT get in the way of my love of the Akai S950! - IO EP7 Akai S950

Radium Audio demonstrating musicality in our sound design for Panasonic adverts 2012
"Submerge in an audio visual narrative, as we explore the Panasonic product universe, and respond to the dark corners, smooth curves, sleek lines and sophisticated design attributes of the new Panasonic range for 2012".. 

RADIUM PANASONIC WASHING SFX V.11

RADIUM PANASONIC IRON SFX V1

RADIUM PANASONIC TOASTER SFX V1

QOB Layer 1 Impacts etc

QOB Layer 2 Cars etc

QOB Layer 3 SFXs

QOB Layer 4 Guns

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