Soundbytes Podcast

Hello! Welcome back to episode fifty-two of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we catch up after being away for a while, and discuss some fantastic listener questions. 

Check out Derek's Modular Mecha library here!

Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersubBarney Oram - @BarneyOram

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Hello! Welcome back to episode fifty-one of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This episode is a brief deep-dive into the concept of mastery, and the journey required to achieve that goal. It's a bit of a brain dump surrounding the process of starting a creative endeavour, and addresses practice, fear, looking stupid, experimentation, and a host of other subjects.

There's a variety of clips and books referenced in this episode, which have been linked below.

Andrew Price - The Habits of Highly Effective Artists

Ira Glass - The Gap

Jake the Dog - Sorta Good at Something

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Sol LeWitt's letter to Eva Hesse

Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery by Roger Kneebone

Think Like an Artist by Will Gompertz

How to be an Artist by Jerry Saltz

Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersubBarney Oram - @BarneyOram

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Audio Podcast Alliance: audiopodcast.org

Hello! Welcome back to episode fifty of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This episode we catch up with our friend Katie Tarrant, who we previously chatted to in episode 7, back in 2017!

Katie is a senior sound designer and musician at Rare, and has spent the past few years working on Sea of Thieves. We chatted with Katie about her work at Rare, her journey into the industry and internships, reflected on the impact of the pandemic, and discussed wider changes in the industry over the last few years.

It was a real pleasure to chat to Katie again! We hope you enjoy the conversation and benefit from Katie's excellent wisdom.

You can follow Katie on Twitter, here: @ktarrantaudio

Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersubBarney Oram - @BarneyOram

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Join the Soundbytes Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fP7wAEKjBP

Audio Podcast Alliance: audiopodcast.org

Hello! Welcome back to episode forty-nine of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. We've got an extremely exciting episode this month; an interview with Paul Stoughton, hosted by our friend Tzvi Sherman!

We're extremely thankful to Paul for sharing his wonderful knowledge, and to Tzvi for interviewing Paul and putting together a fantastic episode. They chatted about techniques to learn and improve on sound design style, as well as Paul's work at Skywalker Sound, Sweet Justice and his library releases, under the name Penguin Grenade.

We think it's a really great one and we hope you all enjoy!

You can follow Paul on Twitter, here: @PaulStoughton and view his work on his website, here: https://www.paulstoughton.com/

You can follow Tzvi on Twitter, here: @TransientGamers

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Hello! Welcome back to episode forty-eight of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we're having a quick catch up, chatting about our five-year anniversary, as well as chat about Derek's new gig, the future of remote work, new audio toys and synths.

Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersubBarney Oram - @BarneyOram

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Join the Soundbytes Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fP7wAEKjBP

Hello! Welcome back to episode forty-seven of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. We've got an exciting one for you this month! We were very lucky to be joined by the exceptionally talented sound designer and composer Julie Buchanan. We chatted with Julie about her background and journey into game audio, and talked about some of the projects she has been a part of, including Godfall, Rocket League and Say No! More. It was a pleasure to have Julie on the podcast and we hope you enjoy the conversation we had.

You can follow Julie on Twitter, here: @jbuaudio

Say No! More is out now, and can be purchased for Steam, Nintendo Switch and IOS.

Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersubBarney Oram - @BarneyOram1

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Join the Soundbytes Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fP7wAEKjBP

Hello! Welcome back to episode forty-six of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we talk Fallout 76, cold-emailing for work, creating source material, finding the balance with emotional investment into creative work, recent recording adventures and workstation must-haves! We really enjoyed having this conversation, and we hope you enjoy it too!

Discord plug: The Soundbytes discord server is in full swing with lots of excellent conversations happening, and we'd love to have you with us. Please join at the link below!

Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersubBarney Oram - @BarneyOram1

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Join the Soundbytes Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fP7wAEKjBP

Hello! Welcome back to episode forty-five of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we talk about a selection of wonderful questions including what we'd say to ourselves at the start of our careers, some new plugins we've been playing with, some thoughts on how to maintain motivation in our work, and some thoughts on how to work with programmers.

Plug again: The Soundbytes discord server is in full swing with lots of excellent conversations happening, and we'd love to have you with us. Please join at the link below!

Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersubBarney Oram - @BarneyOram1

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Join the Soundbytes Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fP7wAEKjBP

Hello! Welcome back to episode forty-four of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. It's a consecutive episode! This month we discuss a bunch of fun questions, discuss our first gigs in the industry, talk about the impact of remote work on mentoring within audio teams, and discuss the future of generalist vs specialist skillsets.

Plug again: The Soundbytes discord server is in full swing with lots of excellent conversations happening, and we'd love to have you with us. Please join at the link below!

Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersubBarney Oram - @BarneyOram1

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Join the Soundbytes Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fP7wAEKjBP

Hello! Welcome back to episode forty-three of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. It's 2021 and we're back for some more sound-based chats. This month we catch up about COVID, talk about the new Soundbytes Discord server, and discuss a wonderful selection of questions from our listeners. We had a lot of fun recording this episode and we hope you enjoy listening to it. 

Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersubBarney Oram - @BarneyOram1

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Join the Soundbytes Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fP7wAEKjBP

Links to things we mentioned:

Barney's New Gun Library

Derek's New Eurorack Case

'The Last of Us 2 Surpasses The Witcher 3 as the Most Awarded Game in History'