Author: David Dumais

If you are like me, you want to continually improve and get better at creating video game sound design. When I got started, I had no experience or knowledge of sound design or where to get started. I found my own way to improve my skills and distilled it down to 3 key elements that have helped me get better over the past 3 years. These are by no means the only ways to get better at sound design, but they are things I have done and still do to this day.

If you are like me, you want to continually improve and get better at creating video game sound design. When I got started, I had no experience or knowledge of sound design or where to get started. I found my own way to improve and distilled it down to 3 key elements that have helped me get better over the past 3 years. These are by no means the only ways to get better at sound design, but they are things I have done and still do to this day.

I’m standing here at my computer (it’s a standing desk) needing to create a ton of sword and melee weapon sounds for a project I am currently working on. If you’re like me, you probably don’t own any swords, so you need to be a little creative to find a way to make these sounds. Fortunately, I’ve already had a few projects where I had to create sword sounds, so I want to share with you my technique for creating sword sounds at home.

I recently bought a plugin called Traveler which is made by a company called Tonsturm. As I was playing around with this plugin, I quickly realized that I could easily make what I thought were some pretty convincing helicopter sound effects…