Oblique Strategies for Sound Designers20200910203331
Oblique Strategies for Sound Designers
Working in a creative field, it can be easy to find oneself stuck . As a solution, Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt created a set of cards labeled Oblique Strategies that offer short suggestions to ...
The Importance of Developing Critical Listening Skills20200908153704
The Importance of Developing Critical Listening Skills
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 listenin...
Stream Deck Audio Plugin Icon Pack20200828201151
Stream Deck Audio Plugin Icon Pack
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...
Great Game Audio Sound Designers Need to Be Players Too20200823213349
Great Game Audio Sound Designers Need to Be Players Too
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 y...
Reaper Quick Tip – Exporting Audio with Embedded Metadata20200511151105
Reaper Quick Tip – Exporting Audio with Embedded Metadata
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 sou...
MK11 Sound Design Featured on HBO’s VICE News Tonight20190823140751
MK11 Sound Design Featured on HBO’s VICE News Tonight
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 ...
Using a Stream Deck for Game Audio Production20180216030049
Using a Stream Deck for Game Audio Production
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...
Reaper Quick Tip – Adjust Item Volume or Pitch with MouseWheel20170530223310
Reaper Quick Tip – Adjust Item Volume or Pitch with MouseWheel
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 ...
Reaper Quick Tip – Creating New Tracks With Surrounding Folders20160329032431
Reaper Quick Tip – Creating New Tracks With Surrounding Folders
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 wit...
Setting Up TouchOSC with Reaper20151201020543
Setting Up TouchOSC with Reaper
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 surf...