Recording some gulls, turns, pelicans, and other seabirds at the Florida Keys Wild Bird Center.
Applying tension to some different types of ropes and strings to sweeten a longbow.
Junk and debris crashes for the elevator scene.
A fan made this short film using stop-motion animation, as well as sound assets from No More Room In Hell. Check it out, it has one of my songs in it!
Souvenirs
Drive your car into an empty field, away from the city. Move the body from the trunk to the front seat and put your nose studs and earrings into the flesh of the corpse. With a little luck and a gallon of unleaded, it might fool the investigators for a while. They haven’t found the others yet but you shouldn’t feel cozy. Cut your hair and hop the first bus to the next town. Be forgettable, vulnerable, another face in the crowd. You will know what to do when the time is right again. No souvenirs. Stick to the plan.
GPS
No more directions, only laughter from the GPS as Abe’s car sank into the lake, sounding like an echo of his late ex-wife.
Easter
They hid the brightly colored eggs before any of the children awoke. The Easter wasps flew back to their nest and waited.
I lift the spoon to my lips again and force myself to chew the briny yellow paste, swallowing a scream that no one in the factory would even hear.
I once squished the brightly colored blobs into shapes, mixing bits from each plastic tub in the hopes that my eyes would trick my tastebuds. It didn’t matter if molded into a hotdog or tugboat, the Doh would always taste the same.
I think of yogurt, pudding, oatmeal, anything to choke down another bite without puking a rainbow; I was mere ounces away from my quota.
Quality Control: it’s a living.
In this clip from the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, I’ve replaced all of the sounds with elements that I’ve either recorded myself or created from library sources.
Play-by-play breakdown posts:
Oblivion Gate
Flame Atronach vocals
Bow and armor foley
Some recording projects I’ve been messing with for PVK II and other projects.
To get some ice cracking and crunching sounds, I froze a bag of water to make a larger, pillow-shaped ice brick. It turned out to be less impressive of a crack than I was imagining but I was able to break it by hand and get some nice ice friction stuff out of it, at least.
For PVK II, I needed to create some desert winds for the map Sandstorm. I already had some library recordings of wind that I liked but I needed some “sand” to add in, so I experimented with recording grainy items around the house including rice and oatmeal to try and get the right feel.
Some veggies awaiting destruction in the name of flesh rips, stabs, and other gooshy gore noises.
Here I am capturing some field recordings of the Key Largo shore. I usually record ambiences with the stereo mics from my Zoom H4 or H2. They also pick up a lot of background car traffic and distant boats and such so I thought I’d try track some wave crashes with a shotgun mic.
Here are some sound effects that I’ve made for various game projects including No More Room In Hell and Pirates, Vikings and Knights II.
I’m happy to announce that I’ve just finished revising the second draft of my novel Further Complications. Once I hear back from my trusted readers, it will be time to make it avalable to the public. I was leaning towards self-publishing through the Kindle store, but I’m wondering if there is a publishing house or two out there that would be interested in my story.
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Check out the latest version of the free-to-play co-op survival shooter No More Room In Hell. It adds two new levels, including Camp Blood based on the classic Friday the 13th film franchise. I had tons of fun trying to replicate the signature sound.
As of Friday night, I’m no longer employed by Clear Channel Media & Entertainment or Sun-FM’s new owners. It’s been a fun eight years while it lasted and I hope I’ve been able to turn people onto some great music that they wouldn’t ordinarily have heard.
Unfortunately, the Eleventh Hour Radio Show’s past shows appear to be offline this morning. I can’t say if they’ll be available from Sun-FM again, but I’ll make an announcement when I know more about the future of the show.