About Creative Sound Design

Creative Sound Design, LLC is an audio production company founded by Frank Bry in 1993 with digital sound sample offerings for Digital Sampling Keyboards. With the success of these libraries, the company expanded by offering digital sample CD-ROMs for the Emu Emulator IIIx, Emulator IV, synthesizer programming for Waldorf Electronics and Emu Systems, and custom sound effects design for video, film, radio and television. He then expanded into custom sound effects design and recording for leading sound effects CD developers.

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Thunderstorm Recording Techniques

May 3, 2011

To kick off thunderstorm season here in North Idaho I want to share with you some new thunder and lightning recordings along with some from my Thunderstorm HD library released a couple years ago. I also want to share some of my tips and techniques I use when trying to record that elusive lightning strike. The audio clip below is thunder I’ve recorded over the last 2 years. The clip contains the raw recordings, no processing except crossfades and gain adjustments. What you hear is what you get. Now, some background information.

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My Exclusive Q and A with Designing Sound

“The Recordist”, an Independent SFX Company by Frank Bry [Exclusive Q&A]

Originally Posted on Designing Sound by Miguel on Thursday, August 5, 2010

Frank Bry is a sound designer and recordist who has worked on several game titles such as Dungeon Siege Series, Supreme Commander Series, Metroid Prime Series and more. He also likes to record sound effects and has an incredibly amount of sounds in his library.

Today I’m going to talk about his company, called The Recordist, a place where Frank deliver sound effects since 1999. He has a lot of different packs and all kinds of sounds, and lately he is releasing “Ultimate collections”, big packs of hi quality sound effects on a very affordable price.

His catalog has different categories, including a standard packs Read more