Category: Audio
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Sound High Level Thoughts Pt. 3
This is the third and probably final blog regarding the topic started a little while ago, please be sure to check those out if you haven’t seen them yet. Thanks! Let’s refer to this breakdown image again… In the last blog post we talked a little bit about how pairing 2 parts of the soundscape,…
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Sound High Level Thoughts Pt. 2
Picking up from yesterday’s blog where we discussed part of my presentation on high level audio concepts in game audio. I got into a little bit of what each part of game audio can be utilized for on their own, and today we will explore more high level thoughts on how combining the elements can…
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Sound High Level Thoughts Pt. 1
A few months back I was given the opportunity to put together and present a talk to the whole studio about game audio. It was pretty fun to put together. However trying to not go over 20min meant that I had to keep it fairly high level regardless of how much I really wanted to…
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Momentary Stars
(Blogtober Day 11) Something that took me a while to really understand in sound design and mixing is how to find the restraint that is sometimes needed to not make everything loud all the time. It’s a super easy trap to fall into, and boy did I ever fall into it early in my career.…
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Generic Can Be Another Word For Useful
(Blogtober Day 7) Generally speaking voice over is recorded in sessions ranging from 2 to 4 hours in length. Typically the aim is to record somewhere in the ballpark of 200+ lines in 4 hours, although depending on the complexity of the lines that number could go down, or even up as high as 400+…
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Telling Micro-Stories With Sound Design
(Blogtober Day 2) Games tell stories. Some games allow players to be a part of stories. Other games even allow players to write their own stories. But while many games have an overarching narrative for players to discover and explore over several hours, there’s another kind of storytelling that tends not be identified as often.…
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What Is Voice Design
(Blogtober Day 1) First things first. What is Blogtober? Blogtober is a challenge to write a blog or article each day, every day in the month of October. 31 posts in 31 days. Please wish me luck! What Is Voice Over Design? Voice Over Design is a practice and/or discipline within interactive game development in…