Sound Design

What sound design covers

Sound design is everything the audience hears that was not dialogue and was not music. Footsteps, atmospheres, impacts, interface sounds, the low hum that makes a room feel like a room. Most of it goes unnoticed, which is exactly the point. Its absence is what gets noticed: video without designed sound feels flat and cheap even when the picture is excellent.

Where we work

• Advertising and brand film
• Explainer and product video
• Documentary and factual
• Games and interactive audio
• Podcast and audio drama
• Audio branding, idents and UI sound

Audio branding

A short, consistent sonic signature does for the ear what a logo does for the eye, and it works in places a logo cannot: on radio, on a smart speaker, in an app notification, over a phone line. Building one is a design exercise, and the constraint is that it has to still work at two seconds, on bad speakers, after the thousandth hearing.

The mix

Sound design is only as good as the mix that balances it against voice and music. Voice has to stay intelligible, music has to carry emotion, effects have to land without pulling focus. We deliver a finished, mastered mix rather than a folder of assets, unless you want the stems to mix yourself, in which case we deliver those too.

Licensing

We work with properly licensed libraries and record original material where a library will not do. You get clear rights for the use you have described, with no ambiguity about what you are cleared for.

Send the cut or the brief and we will scope it.