Thanks to Shirochan for the post earlier, I had some problems connecting to the site.
A movie I sound designed and subbed got today released:

                                

Three years of overall production time has come to a close.  It was both challenging and great fun from beginning to end.

It has been a privilege to have worked on a movie with so much love for its lore and its fundamental characters.
A great movie for fans by fans; hailing visual characteristics of the franchise to music an…  More

So I'm working on number of things including the sound mixing tutorial. I got some help from Olibith to do some fun images for it and I had the idea of mixing for a video Pinkhair was making. But I'm not sure when he will begin or when he will be done, so I be doing it for a different video instead.

You can follow the progress,  get the release date and notifications from my twitter: http://twitter.com/Soundwizard for this and upcoming soundpackages and basically anything I do for new upcoming m…  More

Finally, after a long time and through some inspirational push by co-players, the left 4 dead sound package is complete.

Alone, the sounds are very strange.
That is because I split them up in different channels.

The sound engine in the game uses the left channel as the primary sound level (up-close) and the right side as delay sound level (distance) It works perfectly in game, it should give your pistols some extra push and your automatic some interesting metal clicks.

Pipebomb(THUMP): Makes…  More

I'm not much of a composer and I try to avoid composing anything as I hardly got the time nor the talent to do so. But over the past 18 months I've been writing long action oriented symphony that was written into a machinima movie. Right now I'm doing some finishing touches.

To practice with the instrumental program and with my midi keyboard, I made three songs I know by heart:

Wallace and Gromit theme
I got no strings - Pinocchio
The Sorcerer's Apprentice 

The last one took me a week to finish as …  More

So I too caught  the flu and been sneezing and coughing and ended up even having to go on penicillin - which turned out I was allergic too.

But in order to get over this stupid thing, I decided to start work on the audio production for the Unbroken trailer which was edited and filmed by Firebolt pro.

I spent some time trying to figure out how to best convoy the sound design over a video like that, and I came up with a couple of ideas I wanted to try;

First idea was to make everything really bassy, …  More

After much back and forth between ideas and concepts for what I considered was sought after sound and how to put them into world of warcraft, I finished it.

There are certain amount of sounds which are not present, like the Axe.
The reason is because my account got hacked and I was then unable to test the sounds ingame, not to mention the video file I had planned to capture with the sounds installed.
But I guess it is allot more fun to stumble on them yourself.

You install it quite easily, all …  More

I was suppose to put this up earlier but I've been quite busy.
I was with some friends during the new years up on a cabin to celebrate. We had a ton of firework too (they recently banned Rockets in Norway due to the hazard of fire and injuries, so we had flares-like-firework instead) Out of all the explosions, these were the highlights of the events which I recorded:

SoundPackage: 2008 - 2009 Fireworks

Firework 1: At 21 seconds, you hear a hit and someone groaning. The firework was not well packed…  More

There was a thunderstorm today, a really loud one.
I live in a valley made out of four mountains.
When lightning strikes, the echo is immense and I can honestly say that on one of the strikes, I felt slightly scared, cos it was on the mountain very close to my house, so the noise level was intense. 

Now down to business, I recorded the whole event as I mostly do when sound reign over the land. Out of seven strikes only three are usable, the reason is because I also happen to live by a road and c…  More

Finally myndflame let me log in. Alright;

So I try to keep moving forward and go on. Sometimes, it is easier that way.

I am working on some projects and I got a new one in mind, it depends tho;
The newest sound package.

This one will be stingers and reverse stingers;

Now to explain what both are:
A reverse stinger is your typical flashback sound, the show LOST use it constantly for their flashbacks (and now flashforwards).
We use it to remove consistency errors and to facilitate transitions from one sc…  More

I recently got myself some new fancy equipment: a microtrack 2 field recorder and a couple of binaural microphones. I brought them with me on my walk with my puppy. On my way home I started recording and here you go. Use headphones for the best experience.

This is a test recording so the volume goes alittle funky and I forgot my windshields.
If you like you can use any of it.
http://www.soundwizardry.com/Walking_Home_Ambience.mp3

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Finally the footsteps package is done and can now be downloaded at http://www.soundwizardry.com/?p=212

Have fun with it   More

Logo for the sound wizardry is done! Thanks to Cassidy for the video editing.
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SOUNDWIZARDRY.COM

Many thanks to Styng (crew of WCM).

My website Sound wizardry is now released and public. You will find audio tutorials, sound package releases, audio program presets for download there, as well as all the videos I've voiced and sound designed in. Also all the behind the scenes movies of my sound designs in machinima, real movies and video games are gonna be posted there. Keep an eye out ^^

 See you there!  More

The Footsteps package I am making for the machinima people is still going. It was in fact done awhile ago but I decided to change it. Now, I went back to the studio and recorded allot of different movements - from footsteps on surfaces to leather, chains and pots and pans.

The footsteps will be released with something else that might excite you. What it is, I can't tell you

I'm gonna leave with two screenshots of the programs I am using to do the footsteps.
It takes less time to work in Mixcraf…  More

I worked a little more with the sound replacement for left4dead. It is tricky as the audio engine of the game is modified and kinda different than the other valve games. So far I've had good results with the pipebomb and shotgun. Press the title for the weapon for a sound demo for it.

Pipebomb
Basically, I wanted the pipebomb to sound more..pipeish, like it is made out of a tube. A tube was used with high pressure air throwing a sponge out to get the thump sound.

 Pipebomb Package

Also the the …  More