Ric Viers
Encyclopedia
Ric Viers is an American
sound designer. He has also worked as a film director
, screenwriter
, and author
.
Viers has worked in freelance sound design for over 13 years, with his work appearing in libraries for Sound Ideas
, The Hollywood Edge, Video Helper, and others. He has provided sound effects for companies such as Apple, Sony, and Adobe. Viers is the "largest independent provider" of sound effects to the movie, television, radio, and video game industries, with over 175,000 sound effects and over 600 libraries by late 2010.
Viers founded the Detroit Chop Shop, a post-sound production facility located in Macomb, Michigan. In 2007, Viers released his 100th sound effects library and founded Blastwave FX,a high definition sound effects publishing company, producing 32,000 sound effects in the first year. In 2008, Viers published a book with Michael Wiese Productions, The Sound Effects Bible.
In 2009, Viers became a spokesperson for Rode Microphones, producing video tutorials for the company's Rode University website; highlighting Rode's broadcast microphones.
Viers received a degree in film studies from Full Sail University. He is often a spokesperson for Sony Creative Software and is a frequent special quest speaker for Sony at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Conference in Las Vegas, NV; Rode Microphones, hosting several web video series for the company's Rode University site, promoting the use of their broadcast microphones; and other companies.
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sound designer. He has also worked as a film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, screenwriter
Screenwriter
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, and author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
.
Viers has worked in freelance sound design for over 13 years, with his work appearing in libraries for Sound Ideas
Sound Ideas
Sound Ideas is the repository of one of the largest commercially available sound effects libraries in the world. It has accumulated the sound effects, which it releases in collections on CD and hard drive, through acquisition, exclusive arrangement with movie studios, and in-house...
, The Hollywood Edge, Video Helper, and others. He has provided sound effects for companies such as Apple, Sony, and Adobe. Viers is the "largest independent provider" of sound effects to the movie, television, radio, and video game industries, with over 175,000 sound effects and over 600 libraries by late 2010.
Viers founded the Detroit Chop Shop, a post-sound production facility located in Macomb, Michigan. In 2007, Viers released his 100th sound effects library and founded Blastwave FX,a high definition sound effects publishing company, producing 32,000 sound effects in the first year. In 2008, Viers published a book with Michael Wiese Productions, The Sound Effects Bible.
In 2009, Viers became a spokesperson for Rode Microphones, producing video tutorials for the company's Rode University website; highlighting Rode's broadcast microphones.
Viers received a degree in film studies from Full Sail University. He is often a spokesperson for Sony Creative Software and is a frequent special quest speaker for Sony at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Conference in Las Vegas, NV; Rode Microphones, hosting several web video series for the company's Rode University site, promoting the use of their broadcast microphones; and other companies.
Sound Effects Libraries
The following is a limited discography of Viers's work. Credits range from producer, sound designer to partial contributor.- The Blastdrive - Blastwave FX
- Blastwave Imaging Elements - Blastwave FX
- Bugs! - Blastwave FX
- Buzzsaw - Blastwave FX
- Drones - Blastwave FX
- LFE - Blastwave FX
- Podcaster - Blastwave FX
- Podcaster 2 - Blastwave FX
- Pop - Blastwave FX
- Radio Meltdown - Blastwave FX
- Revolver - Blastwave FX
- Sonopedia - Blastwave FX
- Spoilers - Blastwave FX
- Titlewave - Blastwave FX
- Wavfx - Blastwave FX
- Webtones - Blastwave FX
- Crash and Burn - Sound Ideas
- Impact Effects 1 - Sound Ideas
- Impact Effects 2 - Sound Ideas
- Super Sampler - Sound Ideas
- The Dark Side of Sound - Sound Ideas
- The General Extension III - Sound Ideas
- The General Extension IV - Sound Ideas
- Hyperspace - The Hollywood Edge
- Sonic Energy - The Hollywood Edge
- The High Impact Series - The Hollywood Edge
- The Guns of Cinema - The Serafine Collection
- Modules II - Video Helper
- Noise Generator - Slam, Bang, Boom - Video Helper
- Noise Generator - Transitions - Video Helper