Diego Stocco's Creative Sound Design
Sound Design 101
Diego Stocco is a sound artist. He sculpts sound with his own set of sonic tools and he expertly shapes it with audio plugins. Watch this course. Learn his secrets and unleash your creativity as you explore Diego's world of sound design.
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Course Outline
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Section 1: Rhythmic Processing
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Section 2: Convolution Processing
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Section 3: Creative Miking Techniques
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12
Intro to Creative Miking Techniques
00:32
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13
'Finger Mics'
01:28
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14
Lavalier 'Bow' & 'Chopsticks' Mics
01:23
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15
Acoustic Processing of Sound
03:32
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16
The 'Stethoscope' Mic
02:37
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17
Electret Mics: Getting Close Ups
02:03
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18
Contact Mics: Guidelines
01:40
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19
Contact Mics: In Action
01:49
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20
Mic Conclusion & Performance
00:53
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12
Intro to Creative Miking Techniques
Course Overview

This three part course starts out with a collection of tutorials that explore rhythmic processing. Here, Diego shows you how to create a complete percussion ensemble from a single recording of guitar strings being struck with sticks. The audio processing chain that he's designed is a signal flow masterpiece. It's like he creates something out of nothing. It's truly magical.
Next, Diego takes you on a convolution journey. Here is where you learn how to create unusual and stunning impulse responses that become resonant models that you can use to further modify and convolve regular audio into morphed, spectrally sublime versions of the originals. This is not to be missed!
Part 3 of this course teaches you how to creatively capture, modify and perform sound in ways that open up your imagination like no other recording course anywhere. With his inventive microphone and acoustical recording techniques Diego, like a hi-tech, sonic surgeon, microscopically inserts microphones into places where sounds are born to capture their very audio essence. Watch and see how these close-up, molecular stereo miking techniques and acoustic processing strategies reveal audio landscapes and percussion sounds that cannot be produced any other way.
Want to be sonically inspired? Watch this course!