Soundbytes Podcast

Hello! Welcome back to episode thirty-two of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month, we talk E3 2019, Godzilla, Keanu Reeves, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Tetris Effect, and we dive into the depths of Reddit, and visit /r/GameAudio/, for some juicy topics.

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

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Links to things we mentioned:

Reddit: Working Remotely and the Challenges

Reddit: Is it too late for me to get into video game music?

Reddit: How would you create fantasy insectoid sounds?

Summer Games Done Quick

Game Audio Shack 2019

Develop Conference Brighton 2019

The Lord of the Rings - Shelob's Lair

Tonebenders - Dave Whitehead

Hello! Welcome back to episode thirty-one of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month, we have a chat about showreels, and how to best approach showreels as a sound designer in the games industry. We go over some basic info and talk a bit about our experience making reels over the years. We also talk about Avengers: Endgame, Shazam!, Death Stranding, Raising Kratos, Divinity: Original Sin II, Austin Wintory's GDC 2019 talk The 'Banner Saga' Franchise: Making Indie Sound AAA and many more fun things.

This month, we're really excited to be sponsored by our friends at Pro Sound Effects! They have sent us over a copy of 'Bass Machine', a new library from their Sonomar Collection. We have a chat about the library in the episode, and we've also made a couple of videos for you to hear more of the library, here and here. You can also get a fantastic $50 off the library, when using the code 'SOUNDBYTES' at the checkout! Thanks PSE! 

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

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Links to things we mentioned:

Muppet Elevator: Battle Hymn of the Republic

God of War - Raising Kratos: Full Length Feature

PowerUp Audio's ReelTalk

Death Stranding – Release Date Reveal Trailer

Hello! Welcome back to episode thirty of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month, we sat down with Josie Brechner and had a chat about music, GDC, freelancing and getting started in the crazy world of game audio! Josie is a sound designer and composer, based out of New York, and has worked on games such as Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King, Extreme Meatpunks Forever, and more. We were very inspired by talking to Josie, and we hope you enjoy the conversation we had!

You can follow Josie on Twitter here: @visagermusic.

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

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Links to things we mentioned:

Josie's Album 'Songs from an Unmade World' on Bandcamp

Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King OST

Blossom Tales The Sleeping King Trailer

TrainJam

EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER: Powered By Blood OST

EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER Trailer

Hello! Welcome back to episode twenty-nine of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. We were at GDC this month, and we took the opportunity during the week to sit down with our friend, Alex Previty, for an interview. Alex is an audio designer at Insomniac Games, and recently worked on their 2018 title, 'Spider-Man' for the PS4. We talked about Alex's background in games, about his entry into the world of sound design, and about some of his work on Spider-Man. A huge thanks to Alex for taking some time out of a very busy week to chat with us, it was a very interesting and inspiring interview!

You can follow Alex on Twitter here: @alexprevity.

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

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Links to things we mentioned:

Spider-Man PS4 (2018)

Insomniac Games

GDC Talk: Designing the Bustling Soundscape of New York City in 'Marvel's Spider-Man' by Alex Previty and Blake Johnson

Game Audio Podcast GDC Morning Meets @ Sennheiser Store

Collected Transients - Diffuse City Library

Hello! Welcome back to episode twenty-eight of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month, Barney sat down with his two friends and colleagues, Josh Bell and Francesco Del Pia, to discuss life at Cloud Imperium Games, making sounds for spaceships and spacesuits, and generally working with a big team on a big project. We also talked about finding work in the games industry as a sound designer, how to deal with moving to a new city and a new country to join a company, and how to get past the impostor syndrome that comes with starting a career in sound. A huge thanks to Josh and Fran for taking the time to chat, we had a great discussion and we hope it is helpful information, especially for newcomers to the industry.

You can follow Josh on Twitter here: @joshadambell and Fran on Twitter here: @makeatemplate.

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

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Links to things we mentioned:

Star Citizen

Wwise

VFS - Vancouver Film School

First Man

Star Citizen: The Sound of Fury Video

Hello! Welcome back to episode twenty-seven of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. We're already a month deep into 2019, and so far the year has brought us snow, and the much awaited first demo for Anthem. We discuss said demo in this episode, as well as the Haunting of Hill House, Altered Carbon, and Derek's latest build project, based on the Nob Control. We also decided to tackle the topic of - things we wish we knew when we were getting into the industry - 5 things that we each felt is useful information for the up-and-coming game sound designer.

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

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Links to things we mentioned:

Anthem VIP Demo

The Haunting of Hill House

Altered Carbon

NOB Control

Game Audio North - 16th of Feb, Leeds UK

Hello! Welcome back to episode twenty-six of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. It's 2019! The year has really flown by. We're starting the year off right, with another of our rambling episodes. This month, we talk Spiderverse, Aquaman, the recent hibernation of Designing Sound, Derek's new Roland R-07, the importance of taking a break, the BOOM X DICE Battlefield 5 Urban Explosion library, and Derek tells us about the cool TeamAudio streams he's been on recently. 

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

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Links to things we mentioned:

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Trailer

Daniel Pemberton Scratched Orchestra Tweet

Aquaman Trailer

Designing Sound: Hibernation

Roland R-07

Handheld Recorder Shootout: Roland R-07 and Sony M10

Boom: Urban Explosions

Team Audio Stream

Hello! Welcome back to episode twenty-five of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month, we were honoured to be joined by the fantastic Isabella Ness, a sound designer working for Clean Cuts & Cerebral Lounge out of Washington D.C. We chatted to Isabella about her background and education, her beginnings in the sound design world, some of her previous work (including the recent Spyro Reignited Trilogy) and a bit about her workflow, setup and choices of equipment. We had a lot of fun recording this episode, and we were very inspired by chatting with Isabella - we hope you enjoy the conversation!

You can follow Isabella on Twitter here: @_decibella and check out her work on her personal site, here.

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

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Links to things we mentioned:

Unreal Engine 4

VR Sports Challenge

MARVEL Powers United VR

Spyro Reignited Trilogy: Year of the Dragon

Hello! Welcome back to episode twenty-four of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. Twenty-Four! That's two years!? We've been doing this crazy thing for two whole years. Join us as we celebrate 104 weeks of premium content, and discuss Barney's recent trip to Texas, we dive into the crunch conversation again, we reminisce on our personal journeys over the last two years, and we answer a question from our friend Joe Marchuk.

We're also very excited to bring you this episode with the help of our friends over at Pro Sound Effects. Pro Sound Effects were generous enough to provide us with a copy of the Odyssey Vehicles Basic library to check out and share with you, our listeners. We discuss the library in the show, and we've also recorded our own little videos about the library too - watch Barney's here, and watch Derek's here. Oh! and you can get yourself 10% off the Odyssey Vehicles Full Library if you use the code, 'OVSOUNDBYTES'. Enjoy! and thanks to PSE!

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

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Links to things we mentioned:

Squadron 42 Trailer

Barney's CitizenCon talk - The Sound of Weapons

Kotaku: Inside Rockstar Games' Culture Of Crunch

Nottingham Audio Drinks - November 15th

MIGS 2018 - November 12th-13th

Buy Luca Fusi a Christmas Present

Hello! Welcome back to episode twenty-three of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. We're very excited to bring you this month's episode with the kind help of our friends at Krotos Audio. Krotos us provided with some copies of their wonderful plugins, to check out and share with you in the episode. Barney had a look at Reformer Pro, and Derek had a play with Dehumaniser 2. We also talked about Derek's recent move to working with Reaper, and answer a listener question.

A big thanks to Krotos for supporting us - we've been aware of this company for a while, and it was great to explore some of their unqiue and groundbreaking plugins and share that on the podcast. You can read more about how people use their plugins on their blog, as well as browsing their full range of plugins on their product page. 

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

Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p

Links to things we mentioned:

PlayStation Classic

Spider-Man PS4

Reaper

Z-Noise

AudioThing Fog Convolver

AudioThing Frostbite

kiloHearts Delay

Karplus–Strong