Talking About The Upcoming Sound Packs With Elliott Fienberg

I just finished recording a really enjoyable conversation with Elliott Fienberg, the man behind the Wobble Tech Radio podcast. We chatted about some recording industry news and talked a bit about my upcoming Ableton Live packs that I’ll start releasing in the next month or so. Check out the recording here, and be sure to [...]
A New Addition To Nick’s Tutorials Is On The Horizon

It’s time to expand Nick’s Tutorials into the realm of sample and device preset packages. The feedback for this idea has been very positive and has taught me a lot about you guys do and do no want to see from the project. Here’s what I have so far: Each pack will be a small, [...]
Dynamic Interference – Join The Sound Design Challenge, Get A Prize!

I’ve been emailing back and forth with Shaun from Dynamic Interference about his new sound design challenge. As far as I can tell, this is the first such challenge that Shaun has offered; it centers around footage of the old Texas Stadium being demolished, and the challenge is of course to add some effective sounds [...]
Kris Giampa’s Sound Design For Video Games Blog Up Now

Kris Giampa, sound designer at Blizzard by day and electronic music composer/label owner by night, has started a new blog which focuses on music for video games. Like many people, I am a rabid fan of Blizzard’s past catalogue (when Diablo III comes out, I am officially checking out of life for a week). I’m [...]
Ableton Operator Inspiration From Mark Mosher

Mark Mosher from Modulate This! has been posting up some fun and educational one off experiments with synth patches which are aimed at “one patch performances.” This means that only one instance of a particular synth is used with a healthy bit of automation to play out a complex song or sequence over time. Operator [...]
What We Can Learn From The “Singularity” Sound Design Team

Another great sound designer interview is up courtesy of my friend Miguel at Designing Sound. This time around, he interviews the sound design geniuses behind the game “Singularity,” a moody FPS that I’ve had the pleasure of putting some time into over the last week or so. I’m floored at how much game sound design [...]
Come Vote On My Next Sound Design Tutorial Series!

After doing 4 substantive Ableton tutorial series, taking a long “time out” to focus on the rest of my life as well as redesigning my site, it’s time to start brainstorming the next product. This time around, I’m going to do things a little differently: I want you guys to help me narrow down what [...]
Designing Sound’s Featured Artist for August: Rob Nokes

Miguel at Designing Sound always does a fantastic job finding interesting sound designers to interview, and this August’s featured artist, Rob Nokes is no exception. Besides his impressive movie credits, Rob also co-founded the online library portion of SoundDogs.com. According to Miguel’s post, the feature will include some tips on field recording and sound editing, [...]
New Site, New Look, Better Functionality!

Hey everyone, Thanks to receiving loads of constructive feedback over the last year about my site, I have greatly simplified the design to be far more user friendly than it was before. Too many people were having issues with the shopping cart software I was previously using, so I’ve switched to a simpler, slightly more [...]






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