The Foley Teacher

THE FOLEY GUILD

Join the only Foley Community for Sound Professionals

Elevate Your Foley recording, performance and business skills with Bastian Gerner aka The Foley Teacher

100+ major film, series and TV productions
AAA games (5 years at Ubisoft)
Nominated for Best Game Foley at GANG Awards 2025 (Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora)
Built 59K Instagram I 10K LinkedIn I 2K Youtube following in audio niche
Proven track record: social media presence transformed business by 100%
Specialist in creating professional results from non-ideal recording environments

THE FOLEY GUILD

Join the only Foley community for Sound Professionals

Elevate Your Foley recording, performance and business skills with Bastian Gerner aka The Foley Teacher

100+ major film, series, TV productions and AAA Games
Nominated for Best Game Foley at GANG Awards 2025 (Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora)
Proven track record: social media presence transformed business by 100%
Specialist in creating professional results from non-ideal recording environments

Never again: thin impacts, inconsistent loops and cloth that sounds like white noise!

You’re already ahead of most sound designers by recording original source material in the field. But when you get home, you hit a wall.

Impact sounds become unusable. Floor-based Foley gets ruined by room acoustics. Anything performed giving energy into the room or onto the floor of the room sounds terrible in your home environment.

This forces you back to library sounds and midi triggered third party software for the most dynamic elements – limiting the competitive advantage your original recordings should be giving you.

Hiring a Foley Studio is most of the time out of budget.

Never again: thin impacts, inconsistent loops and cloth that sounds like white noise!

You’re already ahead of most sound designers by recording original source material in the field. But when you get home, you hit a wall.

Impact sounds become unusable. Floor-based Foley gets ruined by room acoustics. Anything performed giving energy into the room or onto the floor of the room sounds terrible in your home environment.

This forces you back to library sounds and midi triggered third party software for the most dynamic elements – limiting the competitive advantage your original recordings should be giving you.

Hiring a Foley Studio is most of the time out of budget.

Here's how I can guide you on your
journey to Foley mastery

1. Deep Dive into Foley Techniques

Let me show you how to perform footsteps efficiently with rich details on modular surfaces. Performing cloth movement without just creating a hum of white noise is a delicate matter, we can master it together. Understand the intricate details of using props to mimic everyday sounds. From the softest whisper of a leaf to the powerful impact of a sledge hammer, I’ll teach you to bring life to any scene.

2. Equipment Know-How

Learn about my special microphone technique using a shotgun and a dynamic mic to get around low end and reverberation issues within non ideal rooms. I will share best practices within all digital audio workstations for Foley work. We go through your plugins and outboard gear and design your recording chain together. Comparing your sound results always with mine until you are happy with your results.

3. Introduction to Advanced Editing

Foley editing is crucial, not only when you start out in the industry. I edited tons of sessions before I started becoming a Foley Artist myself. Over the years I developed a style of editing that meets the efficiency for TV movies and upholds the quality you need for a feature film. I will help you editing Foley and understanding how to create focus to enhance linear and non linear storytelling. You will get tools and techniques to be more efficient and earn more in less time.

4. Hands-On Sessions

Walk beside me as we take on your real-world projects. Imagine you have some sounds you are struggling with. Wa can tackle those sounds together. I love brainstorming in a team. You come up with ideas and I come up with ideas. Within our session I record all the sounds I have in mind and upload them afterwards for you. All assets that I produce during our sessions will be free to use for you in all of your current and future projects.

5. Continuous Learning

The world of Foley and SFX is evolving, and so must we. Stay updated with the latest techniques, tools, and technologies under my guidance. Sounddesign is more and more entering the realm of film and game music. A list composers hire sound designers for their projects. AI should be incorporated in our workflows and products as well if we want to stay relevant and profitable!

6. Personalized Feedback

Each persons journey is unique, and I’ll be there to provide tailored advice. Whether you’re working on your first Foley project or looking to refine an advanced skill, I’ll be there to guide, critique, and celebrate your progress. I am also still learning new things every day and I am sure that I will learn something from you too! Each one teach one.

Learn the specific techniques and individual hacks that I developed over 15 years in non ideal rooms of professional work to make impact sounds, footsteps, and energetic Foley recordable and usable in your edit suite or home studio.

I got nominated for Best Game Foley at the GANG awards 2025 for my contribution towards “Avatar – Frontiers of Pandora“ (I recorded in a 11m² vocal booth at Ubisoft for 5 years!)

Here is how we get you to that level in less than a year: