https://designingsound.org/2012/12/29/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/ Art and technique of sound design Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 https://designingsound.org/2012/12/29/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/#comment-553797 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:10:12 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=14489#comment-553797 […] https://designingsound.org/2012/12/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/ […]

]]> https://designingsound.org/2012/12/29/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/#comment-474686 Fri, 06 May 2016 12:09:00 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=14489#comment-474686 […] Theiler of Kpow Audio wrote a guest post on designing sound back in 2012, about his approach to the construction of ambience. He wrote about his experience of […]

]]> https://designingsound.org/2012/12/29/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/#comment-463563 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:29:46 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=14489#comment-463563 Thanks, that was really helpful and I appreciated a track you uploaded. It Sounds cosy.

]]> https://designingsound.org/2012/12/29/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/#comment-211584 Tue, 20 May 2014 01:49:17 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=14489#comment-211584 […] Click here to view the embedded video. […]

]]> https://designingsound.org/2012/12/29/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/#comment-211536 Tue, 20 May 2014 00:57:17 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=14489#comment-211536 […] Creating the Spaces of Ambience […]

]]> https://designingsound.org/2012/12/29/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/#comment-164352 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 06:48:30 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=14489#comment-164352 […] have written previously about the creation of the ambient audio for The Banner Saga: Factions, which is the free multi-player game created before the single player version that I am writing […]

]]> https://designingsound.org/2012/12/29/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/#comment-63606 Sun, 25 Aug 2013 02:55:24 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=14489#comment-63606 […] Creating game outdoor ambience/reverbs […]

]]> https://designingsound.org/2012/12/29/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/#comment-3839 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:12:59 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=14489#comment-3839 […] Recently I came across an article by sound designer Michael Theiler on his process of designing ambient audio for games.  The article is quite insightful and describes his non-procedural techniques used in games like LA Noire, and his procedural techniques used in the new game The Banner Saga. […]

]]> https://designingsound.org/2012/12/29/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/#comment-3838 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:21:24 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=14489#comment-3838 I don’t think it is just the acoustics of the sound that makes it right though. The space is important, and since I was talking about ambient audio, the space is very important, as they need to sit back and not dominate. But finding the right sounds is more complex than finding sounds that have the correct spacialization. I think Randy was alluding to it in his comments. The sound he chose had the right acoustic space in the sound as it was recorded with the space as part of the sound, but I would say the sound was chosen firstly because it felt right for the scene emotionally. It had the particular qualities of sound which simulate or reference or invoke what the world would sound like when heard through the filter of the emotional state of whoever was holding the point-of-view for that scene.
That is one of the aspects of Randy’s work that I hold in the highest esteem, and a perspective I hope is always present in my work.

]]> https://designingsound.org/2012/12/29/creating-the-spaces-of-ambience/#comment-3837 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:24:04 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=14489#comment-3837 Great article. And also, great tip from Randy. I totally agree. There are so many great sounds to capture which need a minimum of editing. Why try to change a sound that just isn’t what you are lookng for?

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