In this fourth instalment of Season 3, the girls say "yes" to a highly technical and sort-after 21st-century skill! For this LEARNING episode, they attempt to step into the shoes of someone highly skilled. They both say "YES" to learning sound (audio) production. Psst! Sound engineers, watch out!

But wait! Is it really sound production they got up to? Or was it sound engineering? Or sound design? Let's unpack that, shall we?

Sound engineering is the branch of engineering in which professionals work on the technicality of sound and mainly ensure tracks sound good to the ear.

Sound/audio engineers have three primary jobs in a studio setup: editing, mixing and mastering. Such a career path can lead to you becoming an audiovisual designer, a production engineer, or an audio technician.

Sound (audio) production - the term used in this episode - is often used interchangeably with "music production," but they're pretty different.

Sound (audio) production is the entire process of recording audio and editing it to make it sound a certain way.

On the other hand, sound design is the process of recording, acquiring, manipulating, or generating audio elements.

So what the Yes Girls focused on for this challenge was sound design and audio post-production.

They selected an under-a-minute video clip from the Jim Carrey movie, Yes Man (for obvious reasons!). They then worked on removing, isolating, normalising and inserting different sound elements and effects that were not already in it.

On hand to guide them through the entire process was guest expert Peddo Brian (Instagram: @peddobrian).

Peddo is a sound producer, a teacher, a songwriter, a guitar player and a recording artist with a fantastic voice. He is also mentioned in EVERY episode as the maestro who composed and recorded this podcast's theme song - in case you haven't noticed.

He offered the girls some guidance, and off they went into their 1-week challenge to become amateur sound designers!

Listen in if you're curious about audio/sound production, audio post-production, sound design in film, and what a sound designer does.

PS: The No Girl for this episode is Freyja Oddsdottir.

Find everything mentioned in this episode below:

The exact clip used for this challenge is 0:20 to 0:57 from this Yes Man's snippet: https://youtu.be/C-NcOxFfGXk

Learn more about the guest expert, Peddo Brian:

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peddo-brian-677756101/

Check out his music here: https://www.youtube.com/c/PeddoBrian

Download Audacity to take it for a spin from here:

https://www.audacityteam.org/

Resources Peddo suggested we begin with:

https://youtu.be/kavxsXhzD48

https://youtu.be/LhzChpmPrBw

https://youtu.be/EcNXRKUUnp8

The premium music & sound effects website used by Akumu: https://www.epidemicsound.com/

The free database of sound effects used by Claire: https://freesound.org/

Other free websites for sound/sound effects are:

https://www.freesfx.co.uk/

https://soundscrate.com/

https://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml

http://99sounds.org/

http://www.findsounds.com/

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