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I never know which one I'm looking for. And it's a concern of mine to use common terminology as I tag my own recordings. Is there a universal distinction between these that all libraries use in their metadata?
These in particular were on my mind today. Anyone have other metadata synonyms that we can crack here?
Well I find it fairly explicit. A whoosh would be a fairly large object compared to swooshes ans swishes that require thinner objects (for the "s...") that literally cut through the air. A maul makes whooshes, a sword makes swooshes, a foil makes swishes. Does this make it any clearer?
Fwiw soundminer uses a thesaurus, meaning you can search "whoosh" and it will retrieve swooshes and swishes etc., even if the word "whoosh" isn't in the metadata or file name.
It's also user editable. Cool stuff!
The problem with just about all sound effects libraries, is that it's like scouring through the yellow pages (fewer and fewer people are understanding that reference each year, sadly); the yellow pages being the greatest training tool I've ever had for searching sound effect libraries.
I don't think we're ever going to escape the chore of creative searching as long as we turn to library effects, especially when you consider that different brands have their own specific conventions.
