5 Tips for Improving Your Sound Design 2020

5 Tips for Improving Your Sound Design

Do you find yourself losing focus and direction during you sound design sessions?

Sound design is one of the most important skills to learn if you are an electronic music producer.
Expert sound designer Tunecraft Sounds gives us 10 insights on how to improve your sound design sessions.

So fire up your synth and let’s get started!


1. Read the manual

This is probably one of the most underestimated tips there is. Complex synths, gears, or plugins require a comprehensive explanation, and that’s what the user manual is about. It is true that, a poorly written and unorganized manual can quickly become boring and useless for a nonprofessional due to its complex, unworkable theories. But most of the time they are really worth a read! We are pretty sure that you would be amazed by the wide variety of helpful information you can learn.

2. Organize sound design sessions

This is another common tip, but it also tends to be overlooked. It’s crucial to focus on your composition during your production session and not to cut off your creative flow. But you should also save some time for sound design, by setting some simple goals to accomplish in a set amount of time, like designing 5 or 10 synth presets that you really love and will likely re-use later. Spend some time on it regularly to master the tools you like, and also allocate some time to discover new techniques and try new tools.

3. Practice your art and work hard

Nobody is born great, every musician or sound designer has bad days or sometimes does not feel like creating anything. But the harder you try, the better you get, the faster you can do it, and the stronger you’ll become. You know that formula right? Hard workers never give up, and this is what helps build their sound design skills. In order to not only compete, but succeed in this ultra-creative task, it’s absolutely vital to be on top of your game at all times, and be consistently raising the bar, educating yourself by practicing and enjoying the process.

4. Keep things organized

Easier said than done, but a creative and productive workflow requires organization and efficiency. Knowing that this aspect isn’t always the most thrilling part of music creation and sound design, you have to think about the close relationship between creativity and organization! If you’re not organized, it will stand in the way of delivering the content that will make you musically or artistically successful. Nowadays, most DAWS provide numerous ways to organize your sessions with groups, bus, colors, names, and so on. This is a good thing to apply to your file management during your sessions or post production: arrange, sort, group, and name your files (or presets!) as specifically as you can, so that you can find them easily when you need them!

5.Try new things

We cannot stress this enough. Sound design isn’t an easy task, you must be prepared to fail and make mistakes. If you don’t (at least occasionally) then chances are you’re doing something wrong ! You will certainly make some useless and stupid sounds/presets or whatever you’re trying to create. But you need to innovate at some point to create something REALLY new. Let’s see how far you can go in a way that you would not normally take, push outside your comfort zone, challenge yourself with new things. You may be surprised at the results of what you can achieve or how you can do it. If sound design is an art for you, then you need to further your craft!

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