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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 - @subwoofersub Barney Oram - @BarneyOram Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p Joi…
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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, …
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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 wo…
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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…
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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 - @subwoofersub Barney Oram - @BarneyOram Follow Soundby…
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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 pro…
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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…
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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…
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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 agai…
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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…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode forty-two of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. We're rolling in for one last episode this year, and what a ride it has been. Thankyou for keeping up with our (admittedly infrequent) antics in 2020, we're hoping to have some more substantial episodes for you to sink your teeth into in 2021. This month we …
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Hello! Welcome back to episode forty-one of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we catch on all manner of fun things, including games we're playing, explosions Barney has been recording, eurorack Derek has plunged into and source we've been making. As we mentioned, we're hoping to start doing some livestreams sometime soon - …
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Hello! Welcome back to episode forty of Soundbytes. It has been another strange few months, as I'm sure you're all aware, but we thought we'd have a little chat and catch up about some things that have been happening. We want to start off this month by expressing our unequivocal support for the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests against t…
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We're back! Sorry it has been a while. Things have changed a little since we last met, including a worldwide pandemic. We're both in lockdown and the moment and we're sure many of our listeners are also. We just want to wish you all safety, it's a strange time and we talked a bit about that in the episode. We offer a few ideas for working from home…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode thirty-eight of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. It's 2020! Welcome to the new decade. We decided to use this episode to dig back through some of the sound gems we've particularly enjoyed in the last 10 years. It's a mix of games and films, and we each talk about what our choices mean to us, and how the…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode thirty-seven of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month, we were incredibly lucky to be joined by two incredibly talented audio people: composer scntfc (Andy Rohrmann) and sound designer Eduardo Ortiz Frau. Both Andy and Eduardo have just finished up working on the newly released game, Afterparty. W…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode thirty-six of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month marks an incredible milestone for us - three whole years of the Soundbytes podcast! It's been great a journey and a lot of fun. We're thankful for everyone who has listened to us. In this month's episode we talk a bit about the past 3 years, we t…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode thirty-five of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. Just a very short one from us this month, as we're both very busy. Barney is currently travelling in Israel after having just started a new job with SweetJustice, and Derek in settling into a new job at Naughty Dog and a new home in LA. It's been a hectic …
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Hello! Welcome back to episode thirty-four of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month, we talk No Man's Sky, new mic purchases, the final Joker trailer, the new SoundDevices Mixpre-6 II, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, and much, much more. Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersub Barney Oram - @BarneyOram1 Follow Soundbytes o…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode thirty-three of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month, we talk about our new library, Lo-Fi Sci-Fi, Barney's new Neumann's, the new Richard King library from Pro Sound Effects, Far Cry 5, and we answer a bunch of wonderful questions about workflow and process - thanks to Nikolaj de Haan for those!…
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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 - @subwoofersub Barney Oram - @BarneyOram1 Follow…
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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, Shaza…
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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 Slee…
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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 a…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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, …
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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…
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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 …
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Hello! Welcome back to episode twenty-two of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we talk Mac and Pro Tools, various Spiderman games, Spyro, we also discuss our favourite sounding games, and chat a bit about foley. We're excited to be hosted by Spotify now, so go and listen to us there. Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersub B…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode twenty-one of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we decided to do our own seperate segments, Barney talked a bit about the new Roland R-07 recorder, and Derek dived into some cool sound design stuff. Thanks to all who gave us feedback on our podcast content last month, we're excited to explore …
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Hello! Welcome back to episode twenty of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. It's just me this time, Barney, as Derek is away helping PowerUp Audio at SGDQ. I took the opportunity to explore some recordings I've made recently of a Tesla, various interesting experiments with the Sanken CO-100k, and I also dig into the Gators library from…
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Hello! Welcome to a special episode of Soundbytes! We sat down and chatted with sound designer and field recordist Mattia Cellotto, about his new library, Animal Hyperrealism Vol I. Mattia talked about his beginnings in sound design, his current work, and delved into the incredible story of how this library was created. A huge thanks to Mattia for …
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Hello! Welcome back to episode nineteen of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we talk got to sit down with the brilliant Nick von Kaenel, of Respawn Entertainment, and to discuss Nick's background, current work on the Respawn Star Wars project, and we delved into some of Nick's knowledge of mobile audio. Nick is a brilliant …
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Hello! Welcome back to episode eighteen of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we talk UE4 demo development, we evaluate the work of Ridley Scott, subtlety and nuance, and answer a bunch of listener questions. Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersub Barney Oram - @BarneyOram1 Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p Links t…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode seventeen of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we talk about GDC adventures, Derek's new workstation build, a LOT of random chit-chat, and Barney delves into his current obsession with tape and Nagra. Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersub Barney Oram - @BarneyOram1 Follow Soundbytes on Twitte…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode sixteen of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we talk; our recent library releases, the fast approaching GDC, Udemy, Nagra, and then we delve into the topic of maintaining motivation for work, and touch a little on imposter syndrome. Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersub Barney Oram - @BarneyO…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode fifteen of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. We're incredibly excited to be bringing this month's episode to you with the help of Pro Sound Effects, who are very kindly sponsoring us. They provided us with a couple of copies of the fantastic Odyssey Collection: Essentials library, which we checked out an…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode fourteen of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we talk about Derek's first indie title, games we're playing, some recording we've been doing, and we announce the winners of our holiday competition! This month we decided to do our own little segments about our recent recording adventures, Derek …
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Hello! Welcome back to episode thirteen of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. We're back after a short break! It's been a whole year since we started this crazy thing and we're so thankful to you all for listening! In this episode we discuss the pressures of the games industry, the Battlefront 2 backlash, sound design warm-ups, practic…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode twelve of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. In this episode we talk industry news, middleware, and answer a few questions. Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersub Barney Oram - @BarneyOram1 Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p Links to things we mentioned: EuroGamer: 'The doors close on The Chinese…
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Hello! Welcome back to episode eleven of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we talk Gamescom, Madden 18, crunch, interviews... and Scooby Doo? Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersub Barney Oram - @BarneyOram1 Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p Links to things we mentioned: Gamescom Battlefront 2 Footage Madden NFL 1…
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Hello! Welcome back to the tenth episode of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we catch up about Develop, hear more about Derek's work at EA, discussing working life and answer a few listener questions. Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersub Barney Oram - @BarneyOram1 Follow Soundbytes on Twitter: @soundbytes_p Links to thin…
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Hello! It's just me this time, Barney, as Derek is super busy working on his first AAA title, which we will be hearing about very soon. For now though, I thought I'd do a little special episode, digging into some practical sound design and exploring some plugins and techniques. I decided to attempt to walk through my process for designing a sound l…
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Hello! Welcome back to the eighth episode of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we talk about Derek's new venture into full-time freelancing, we discuss the art of sound design, and answer a few questions from our wonderful listeners. Hosted by: Derek Brown - @subwoofersub Barney Oram - @BarneyOram1 Follow Soundbytes on Twit…
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Hello! Welcome back to the seventh episode of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we decided to tackle the incredibly important issue of diversity in games and game development. We were lucky to be approached by many people who were intrested in discussing the topic, and for this episode we are joined by our good friends comp…
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Hello! Welcome back to the sixth episode of our monthly podcast about games and game audio. This month we had the immense honour of sitting down with the one and only Damain Kastbauer (lostchocolatelab), pillar of the game audio community and Technical Audio Lead at PopCap Games, to discuss GDC17, the Audio Mentoring Project and Damian's new books.…
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Hello! Welcome to this GDC 2017 special episode!! GDC happened last week and while Barney did not attend, I had the chance to sit down with Matthew Marteinsson and Jamie Bell of Klei Entertainment! We talk about GDC, the game audio community, newbie pro tips and even make some strange noises. Special guests: Matthew Marteinsson: @mattesque Jamie Be…
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Hello! It's just me this time, Barney, as Derek is over in San Francisco this month for GDC. As I had the opportunity to take this episode, I decided to do something a bit different. This month I took the opportunity to dive into the world of field recording, and explore the area specifically focusing on entry level sound designers looking to inves…
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