Recently I paired up with Stowaway films to do the audio track for a short film titled FIX. I can’t embed the video in this blog entry but here is a link. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed working on it.

Stowaway Films: FIX

Here’s a video for Glenn Beck’s book, Agenda 21. It was shot by Ben who is a fanastic film maker working with us on various projects. I did the sound design/foley.

Until January 31st 2013, BlastWave is offering an enormous 50,000 track library on hard drive for independent producers for $1,500. If you’ve worked on your own you know that you can’t use licensed fx on projects that don’t have clearance. For example, radio station employees who have access to Sound Ideas or Pro Sound Effects libraries for their station can’t use those effects on a car commercial client out of state or on a station who doesn’t have the same library — legally at least. Do you really want your client coming back to you because they received a C&D or fines on the spot you produced?

Years ago when I went out on my own this became an issue… an expensive issue. So when I got an email from the guys at ProSoundEffects/Blastwave about this drive for $1,500 I took interest. As I’m sure you know, comparable libraries from Sound Ideas, and even from Blastwave themselves, would cost $5,000 to $12,000. I’m looking forward to getting the drive (which is embedded with metadata searchable by ProTools and Soundminer, by the way - a huge plus over SFX on CD).

If you’re interested, here’s the link: http://www.prosoundeffects.com/hybrid-library-for-freelance-sound-designers.html

Working with Jimmy Kimmel is always fun. Here’s a bit I voiced that aired Wednesday, July 18 2012.

Video courtesy of and property of ABC Television

If the above video doesn’t work, try this:

Pharmacy Phlash Chapters,

The mix is done! So here it is - your Phlash Mob music mix. Click the link below to automatically download the MP3 file.

phlash mob mix

Here’s a quick tutorial on using the ProTools Identify Beat command (also known as Tempo Mapping).

ProTools Identify Beat Tutorial from Nick Daley on Vimeo.

Just something short I threw together from footage gathered on a new camera. Music by 3Oh!3.

Studio Looks from Nick Daley on Vimeo.

Recently I participated in the “It Gets Better” campaign because it’s something very important to me. Bullying extends past gay youth, past overweight girls, past nerdy guys.. it plagues all walks of life at all ages and sometimes it can become too much. A string of bully related suicides have prompted hundreds of people to make videos and millions of people to watch them. I’m just one voice amongst many but together maybe we can lend a shoulder to someone nearby when they need to hear they’re loved.