July's issue of AudioMedia features several articles on game audio, including: Martin Stig Andersen on the sound of "Limbo" Richard Wentk talks with Valve's audio team about the sound of "Portal 2" Phil Kovats - Sound Matters Niklas Hed on the sound and music of "Angry Birds" Level Up - Loudness Standards for Games (feat Garry Taylor, Scott Selfon and Rob … [Read more...]
Axel Rohrbach Special: Working in a Team
[Written by Axel Rohrbach] It may sound very easy and clear, but working in a team has a lot of faces to look at (figuratively). I know a lot of audio guys in very different situations. Reaching from "one-man-shows" offering everything related to a specific topic (which could be as wide as "multimedia") to large pre-production companies doing sound design for movies only, you … [Read more...]
New Remix Competition at HISS and a ROAR
Tim Prebble has announced the first remix competition of HISS and a ROAR: After playing with the sounds in the Tortured Piano library over the last few weeks, I’ve become fascinated as to the ways these sounds can be processed, altered & recontextualised… But I am even more so interested in what other people might do with the sounds…. So I’ve just released the FREE version … [Read more...]
Making of “Mangled Metal”, The New SFX Library of The Recordist
The Recordist has released Mangled Metal, a collection of 715 sound effects, including metal rips, tears, dents, scrapes, folds, slides, rubs, impacts, crashes, drops and more. Being a pack-rat runs in the family so I instinctively saved all kinds of metal like my old roof, appliances, stoves, containers, steel bars, pipes, barrels, etc. Recorded with a variety of microphones … [Read more...]
Sounddogs.com Launches New Site
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/26036513[/vimeo] The new site of Sounddogs.com is now live: soundeffects.sounddogs.com features a large waveform viewer and audio player that enhances the previewing of sounds before purchase. Individual channels may be selected, this is especially good for polyphonic sound recordings of guns or on-board cars, tanks and airplanes. In layman’s terms … [Read more...]
July’s Featured Sound Designer: Axel Rohrbach
Axel Rohrbach is the lead sound designer of Dynamedion, an audio production studio based in Germany and focused on video games content. He's also co-founder and creative director of BOOM Library. This month we have the honor of feature him as our special guest, so let's get started! Bio Born 1981 in Frechen near Cologne, Germany. Parents got a music school, started with … [Read more...]
Joseph Fraioli on the Sound Design of Google Chrome Speed Tests
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0[/youtube] Peter Kirn has published an interview with Joseph Fraioli, talking about his work for the awesome Google Chrome speed tests campaign. What does speed sound like? Sound designer and electronic musician Joseph Fraioli, aka jafbox, was charged with giving a campaign just that feeling. The spot, directed by Aaron Duffy … [Read more...]