tips : Designing Sound

Room Tone = Emotional Tone: The Importance of Hearing Ambience

Thursday, November 15, 2012

am·bi·ence noun /ˈambēəns/ ambiances, plural; ambiences, plural The character and atmosphere of a place – the relaxed ambience of…

Ariel Gross Guest Post: ‘I Feel Like a Fraud and So Can You!’

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

This is a guest article written by Ariel Gross, Audio Director of game development studio Volition Inc, which produces such PC and console titles as the Saint’s Row…

School of Video Game Audio Now Open

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The first online school for learning how to create professional audio for video games has just announced that it is accepting applications for its first course from July…

Joining Team Audio

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Volition Sound Designer Ariel Gross has posted a blog on AltDevBlogADay on the process of getting hired for a game audio position. The blog contains some fascinating insights…

Hart FX Releases New Alligator Library

Monday, April 30, 2012

Hart FX has released Hart a Gator, a new library of alligator sound effects, cut from 10 hours of material recorded at 192kHz. Alligators are quiet, stealthy creatures…

The Making Of Ultimate Destruction HD Sound Effects Library

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

[Article written by Frank Bry about his new library Ultimate Destruction, a collection of+600 destruction sounds recorded over a five year period at 24-Bit 96kHz in a multitude...

GDC 2012 Audio Keynote & Track Slides Available Online

Saturday, April 7, 2012

GDC Vault has published the presentation materials from GDC 2012 online for free. There is a great wealth of information from a wide section of the game audio…

Harry Cohen Special: Sound Design Moments Re-visited

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

[Written by Harry Cohen] I wanted to write a different kind of article, one that indulges my more geeky-tech side. While the main source for material remains great…

SFX Lab #3: On Transformation

Monday, November 21, 2011

[SFX Lab, the laboratory of sound effects, a place dedicated to experiment and explore sound libraries. The main goal is to hear what happens when sounds of a...