A Day of Sounds
Inspired by this #LinkOfTheDay, last week I set out to make my own type of “time lapse phonography”. So one morning as soon as I woke up, I grabbed my Zoom H4n and started recording the typical sounds of my…
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Worldizing vs. Processing
A few days ago I read a great post on “worldizing” by Andrew Quinn. To be honest, I hadn’t heard that term before, but I understood the concept. Worldizing is an old technique used to replicate the quality of a sound…
Project Portal: Update 3
Who wants to see a test run for some Project Portal sounds? You do? We’ll I’m glad I asked! In this update I bring you an in-game sample of what I call the “portal shoot sequence”. There are three core…
Project Portal: Update 2
Being back in my hometown of Galesburg has been great. Aside from seeing family and friends I’ve been able to get a lot of audio work done over this break. My work load toward the end of last semester brought…
Happy New Year!
It isn’t new years eve at my parents’ house with out fireworks. This year was no exception, but this time I was right there to record the moment. We only got a couple lit off before we decided to call…
A Machinist’s Workshop
My girlfriend’s father is a great machinist. In his home shop, he works on his own air pistol prototypes. He uses all kinds of big fancy machines for this. Now, I have no clue how to operate them or how…
“This Milk F***ng Rules”
Check out this hilarious short film by Muve Music/Cricket Wireless I edited sound effects for. Step into the life of a shepherd who really loves his music. [youtube ]
TTTTTThor!
I just finished a fun project that came to me randomly. I decided I would make an audio mod for VVVVVV using only Thor. I’ve beat VVVVVV before and I’d like to think I’m pretty good at it. I’ve also used…
We’ve Got That IR!
This weekend I worked with my friend Drew to try out creating impulse responses for the first time. We used a sine tone sweep method. For those who don’t know, IR’s (in audio) are used to replicate the sound of…
Project Portal: Update 1
This saturday I did some sound collecting for my Portal audio mod. I recorded just about everything in my apartment that makes noise, but I seemed to gravitate toward anything electric. Things like videogame consoles, lights, speakers, hard drives, space…