I saw an inspiring tweet recently from @chrisscullion about using the plugin Manipulator to create sci-fi engine sounds, and I had to give it a shot myself. It turns out, it's super fun! If you have Manipulator, which is a great plugin anyway, I highly encourage you to pull out a microphone and start experimenting yourself. Even without additional processing, there are lots of different sounds to ...

As a sound designer, the most important tools in your toolbox are your ears and your brain. Forget your microphones, sound library, plugins, and your DAW. Let’s just focus on the act of listening for a minute. What is critical listening? Critical listening is the ability to analyze content, breaking it down into its individual […]...

This is a downloadable icon pack for your Stream Deck. I tried to take simple, identifiable GUI elements to create the image for each icon, so each plugin would appear unique and be easily identifiable at a glance. The idea is to use these icons as backgrounds for each button and manually type in the […]...

Mix-up, corner pressure, footsies, frame trap, safe on block, punishable, and fifty fifty. These are all terms that I had never heard of before working as a sound designer at NetherRealm Studios. If you’re not a fighting game player or developer, you might not be familiar with them either. So why are they important? I […]...

The release of Reaper v6.10 has added the option to embed metadata during rendering into all sorts of files types, including BWF wav files. This is a very handy feature when editing recordings for sound libraries or when exporting sfx for implementation into a game. Here are the notes from the changelog: Metadata save/load metadata […]...

The folks from VICE's News Tonight stopped by NetherRealm to participate in some sound design fun with fruits and vegetables. Check out the video to see how we make some of our gore sounds for Mortal Kombat 11. ...