I recently purchased an Elgato Stream Deck in order to set up custom key commands to use with various parts of my workflow. In this post I’m going to show a few examples of what is possible with the Stream Deck and give a quick overview of how I’ve set it up to launch programsRead more
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Injustice 2 recently received two nominations at this year’s D.I.C.E. Awards: “Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design” and “Fighting Game of the Year”. I’m very proud of the audio team and the whole studio for putting together such a great game. Check out all the nominees for the 21st Annual D.I.C.E. Awards here.
Until recently, I didn’t know you could have a binary action that did two things within a single Reaper Action. I have always wanted to set up a Reaper mouse modifier for the mouse scroll wheel to adjust item volume, but in Reaper’s mouse settings there is no way to assign actions to the mouse wheel,Read more
I’m going to start posting a series of short, more advanced Reaper tutorials geared towards game audio sound design workflows. The first involves automatically creating a group of new tracks with a surrounding folder track. This is great for quickly making groups of tracks and keeping everything neatly organized.
TouchOSC is a powerful app for the iPad or iPhone that lets you send and receive OSC messages over Wi-Fi to control audio applications. I’ve set it up with Reaper to create a custom control surface on an iPhone or iPad. Here, I’m going to show you the basics of getting TouchOSC up and runningRead more
I recently started a new job and one of my tasks has been to learn Nuendo, primarily for sound design and mixing. I’ve always been a Pro Tools user and I have a deep working knowledge of the program and specific workflows. Switching over to Nuendo was a bit of a jolt, but as IRead more
I had some time over the weekend for a marathon gaming session and decided to take full advantage. After a couple hours of play I started to realize how fatigued my ears were getting. “Oh no, not this loudness war stuff again,” you might be thinking to yourself. Don’t worry, I don’t plan on rantingRead more
Over the course of my career, I’ve done a lot of voice over recording for Nickelodeon and PBS. Working with animated kids’ TV and games is a total blast. But recording dialogue with child actors is very different from working with adult actors. So I thought it would be helpful to share a few thingsRead more