Review: ReCenter by Boom Library Have you ever done your own recording session where you grabbed your handheld recorder and recorded items around your house? Or perhaps you’ve gone on a day trip and recorded sounds outdoors? In any case, if you’ve had to deal with recording moving objects, you know it can be a
Best Free plugins For Sound Design – 2020 Plugins are a core part of a sound designer’s tools. With the right plugins in the right combination, you can create some pretty cool sounds, but that can come at a high cost. Though plugins can be quite costly, in this post, I want to share with
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’re a video game sound designer like I am, you no doubt have unused sound effects sitting on your computer that will probably never see the light of day. This is not because the sounds are bad or unusable. It could just be that your client didn’t need them or didn’t choose them as part of the game you were working on. Or, they are sounds you were creating when practicing sound design. Whatever the case may be, these sounds are idling on your computer. Why not bring these sounds new life by selling them online to people who could actually use and benefit from them?
I’m sitting here traveling with my family and I was thinking to myself, “If I were to start all over again, where would I go to find work as a beginner sound designer?” I’ve been fortunate to be a sound designer for the last 3 years. I’ve worked as a freelancer on indie game projects and created my own sound design products. I have yet to work for a studio, because, to be honest, that just isn’t one of my goals. Having been in the industry for a while, however, I came up with a few suggestions and places I would go to find work as a sound designer in the video game industry if I were to start over as a beginner.
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.
If you are just getting started in video game sound design, there are a few basic pieces of gear that you will need to get started. It may surprise you that nowadays, you can get started with very little money. In fact, you could get started for as little as $200 or less. When I got started I had only 3 pieces of gear. Let’s look into what those 3 pieces of gear were and some recommendations to get you started.
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.
If you want the freedom of working for yourself, when you want, how you want, on projects that you choose, then chances are that you have already thought about becoming a freelancer. Though these promises sound very nice, they are hardly easy to come by but can be very rewarding to achieve…
I remember when I first got RX, I was using it exclusively as an audio repair and editing software. It was only months later that I was playing around with it and noticed that I could easily use it for sound design and create some cool new sounds from its many modules. Recently, I was playing around with it again and decided to dive deeper to find out how far I could push RX in my sound design work.
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…
Game over sound effects are effects associated with a character dying. They are typically short and have a sad feeling to them. Because 8-bit sound effects are generally made from accelerated, fast-paced intervals and patterns, you’ll notice in the video example that we use exactly this method. We’ll be using minor thirds and diminished 7th (generally associated with a sad mood) to generate the game over sound effect.
Whether you’re playing an adventure game, side scroller, or any of the classic Super Mario games, coin sound effects are important because they give the player a sense of achievement. When I was working on my 8-bit sound pack, I wanted to create coin sounds as I knew they played a major role in these types of games. In the process of creating coin sounds, I discovered how to closely recreate the Super Mario coin sound effect.
Whether you’re jumping into a portal or just loading a game, 8-bit game starting sounds are important to the retro style of video games. As I was creating my 8-bit sound pack, I discovered a few easy ways to create game starting sound effects that I want to share with you.
When I was creating my 8-bit sound pack I learned a lot of fundamental concepts that helped shape the direction of my sound design. These fundamental concepts are the building blocks for creating 8-bit sound design.
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