It's been more than a month since the last episode, but contrary to popular belief, Mike, Alex, and Vince are very much alive and ready to chat about games, audio, and (of course) game audio!

Other notable mentions include:

AATranslator (DAW project file translation software, Suite Spot Studios)
Translator 7 Pro (Sample Library format converter, Chicken Systems)
1883 (TV series, music by Brian Tyler)
MJ the Musical (Musical, book by Lynn Nottage)
AIgolemeth (Video Game, Medium-Rare Games)

Featuring: Michael Gordon Shapiro, Alex May, and Vincent Diamante

Recorded March 14, 2025

The trio returns in 2025! Mike, Alex, and Vince opine about various topics, some of which are even tangentially related to games, audio, or game audio!

Other notable mentions include:

Zebra 3 (U-He soft synthesizer)
New Blue Sun (Andre 3000 album)
ShaperBox (Cableguys plugin)
Get Back (Documentary series)

Featuring: Michael Gordon Shapiro, Alex May, and Vincent Diamante

Recorded January 30, 2025

The GAH is back for its first episode of 2025! Alex and Vince get off to a rousing start with some chat about music merchants and then spin out towards other things in the worlds of games, audio, and... you guessed it... COMPRESSOR PLUGINS!

Other notable mentions include:

Omnipressor (compressor plugin, Eventide)
Socho Shihatsu no Sappukei (Japanese TV Drama)

Featuring: Alex May and Vincent Diamante

Recorded January 16, 2025

Alex, Mike, and Vince enter into a month of shopping and sales and leave with various acquisitions, so of course they have to talk about the various audio related purchases they made!

Other notable mentions include:

Tai Chi (reverb plugin, Reverb Foundry/Liquid Sonics)
Cinematic Studio Strings (string ensemble library/plugin)
Dorico (music notation software, Steinberg)
LilyPond (music engraving software, Free Software Foundation)

Featuring: Alex May, Michael Gordon Shapiro, and Vincent Diamante

Recorded December 5, 2024

This GAH has the trio joined by special guest: Stephen O'Bent! The episode features mention of all the usual stuff from the challenges of game audio education to the importance of playing Super Mario Odyssey with your kids!

Other notable mentions include:

Fumiya Tanaka (Music Producer/DJ)
The Diplomat (Political Thriller TV series)
Storybundle (E-book website)
RME UCX II (Audio interface)
Company (Musical by Stephen Sondheim)
Fez (game by Polytron Corporation)

Featuring: Alex May, Michael Gordon Shapiro, Vincent Diamante, and Stephen O'Bent

Recorded November 14, 2024

The trio finally make mention of Halloween festivities... but not before talk of intimate game audio conferences, recording methodology, and gear new and old.

Other notable mentions include:

Goat: A Musing Whimsy (Novel, Allan Batchelder)
Every Frame a Painting (Youtube channel, Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou)
Creative Perspectives in Game Audio (Conference, Denmark, 2024 October 26-27)

Featuring: Alex May, Michael Gordon Shapiro, and Vincent Diamante

Recorded October 31, 2024

Mike, Alex, and Vince gather for an October podcast without once mentioning any impending Halloween celebrations. They do mention, however, past cartoons, past music periodicals, and a rather recent video game soundtrack release.

Notable mentions include:

Carl Stalling (Music composer)
Future Music and Computer Music (Music periodicals)
Escaping Wonderland OST (Video game score by Michael Gordon Shapiro)
Solaris (2002) (Film score by Cliff Martinez)
Fish Story (Film, Dir. Yoshihiro Nakamura)

Featuring: Alex May, Michael Gordon Shapiro, and Vincent Diamante

Recorded October 18, 2024

The GAH trio is joined by special guest: Kochun Hu! Sure, they eventually get to talking about Astroneer and music philosophy, but before that, they just have to talk about Alex's favorite subject: TRACKERS.

Other notable mentions include:

Peaky Blinders (TV drama and its anachronistic soundtrack)
Blue Bell Knoll (album by Cocteau Twins)
Skygunner (Playstation 2 action game)
Impulse Tracker (software by Jeffrey Lim)

Featuring: Vincent Diamante, Alex May, Michael Gordon Shapiro, and Kochun Hu

Recorded September 20, 2024

Alex and Vince chat a bit about Concord despite not playing it, and now no longer having a chance to play it. Then it's off to Germany, Russia, and back to Britain as they talk cool plugins, state orchestras, and progressive rock bands.

Other notable mentions include:

Yevgeny Svetlanov (Russian Conductor)
Lexicon PSP 42 (Delay Plugin by PSP Audioware)
Day and Age (Album by Frost*)
Rolling Sampler (Plugin by Bird's Things )
Concord (Score by Daniel Pemberton)

Featuring: Alex May and Vincent Diamante

Recorded September 6, 2024

Vince returns from Japan (again?!) to describe what he saw at the CEDEC conference and chat a bit about his talk, Mike looks back with some fondness at 3+ decades of Finale's impact on the music writing scene, and the two make some decisions for their absentee cohort on what his role will be on their group trip abroad.

Other notable mentions include:

Ted Lasso (Score by Marcus Mumford and Tom Howe)
A Haunting In Venice (Score by Hildur Guðnadóttir)

Featuring: Michael Gordon Shapiro and Vincent Diamante

Recorded August 30, 2024