Our sound design work on an independent Japanese comedy earned a Best Sound Design award at Madrid IFF 2023. Here's what the audio post-production actually involved — and what it means for other indie and documentary filmmakers preparing for festival submission.

Camera mics pick up the audience as much as the performance. Here's how we isolate a solo piano performance from crowd noise without damaging the delicate dynamics.

Cuts noisy noise (bird calls) mixed in video messages Nowadays, you can easily shoot videos with your smartphone, etc. Video messages are...

マスク着用のままだと、その場では「ちょっと聞き取りにくいな」と思う程度でも、それを録画しプレビューすると「話している内容がぜんぜん聞き取れない」というケースは少なくありません。

Noise reduction and remastering for old cassette tapes and archival recordings — from a digitized file, we clean up hiss, rebalance instruments, and restore audio close to modern quality.

A denoiser plugin alone left rain noise sounding worse, not better. Here's how professional dialogue restoration saved an interview shoot without a costly reshoot.

Zoom Webinar archived video echo mitigation request I'm Yamakawa @HSR_YB, a hybrid sound reformer who works on repairing and improving...

Hair brushing against a lavalier mic creates a crackling noise most noise suppressors can't touch. Here's the film post-production approach that actually works.

When a venue announcement bled into a reporter's on-camera audio at nearly equal volume, most editors would call it unusable. Here's how we isolated the voice we needed.

A case study in documentary sound editing: cleaning up dialogue from a noisy New York classroom shoot, and how an indie director found festival-caliber audio post without New York studio rates.