Jesse Rope -Sound-

not the greatest sound, but they sure are pretty

not it

Drinking With Damian: An Sound Designers’ Story. 

demoing oculus rift with surround headphones at lunch. INCREDIBLY immersive.

though this is me most days…. :/

good to be back

Round Two!

GDC 2013!

upgrading… oh boy!

building up my studio. this is the conceptual target.

For as long as I’ve started compiling a sound library, I’ve been paranoid about losing it. I have a 2TB drive stuffed with libraries, samples, and field recordings, and if I lose it, I lose everything. I’ve thought about getting another one and mirroring it, but I know I’m going to outgrow 2TB soon. I’ve looked into NAS enclosures, but getting one large enough to let me continue to grow as well as keep a redundant copy would run $1500+. And then it’s still vulnerable to home disasters or break-ins. 

Enter Bitcasa: Unlimited cloud storage, $100/year. 

I’ve never done product plugs, but this is a dream come true. $100 a year for unlimited storage? That’s less than what I paid for hard drives the last few years, and this one is invincible. It does all the smart things: triple-redundant, desktop utility that backs up new files as they come in, drive mirroring, mobile apps and more. 

The one downside is that it is a bit slow, so I consider this an archive solution, not your Dropbox/Gobbler replacement. It took me about a month to upload my 2TB of sound files (though I was only running Bitcasa at night because I was actually working off the drive during the day). That might seem like an unreasonable amount of time, but this IS almost 2TB of data we’re talking about. I haven’t tried pulling down any large amount of data yet, so I can’t speak to how fast you’d be able to be up and running if some calamity did befall you. But you WILL get up and running. 

While it’s getting going, Bitcasa is $69 a year, but if you look closely for the “enter promo code” button when you sign up and enter “BETATHANKS” you can get your first year for $50. 

It’s been a fantastic 1676 hours and 32 minutes Soundlab. See you in April!

4:31

Feels good.

Happy release. I’m so stoked that I got a little slice of the game to work on, and am in awe of the audio team that did most of the heavy work over the last couple years. You guys rock, drink in that praise cause you so earned it.

Did this trailer for XBLA Galaxy Reign yesterday. The in-game audio is really well done, which makes my job super easy! Reminds me of some of the best moments of Homeworld.

http://playxbla.com/your-secret-mission-awaits-galactic-reign-announced/

Fable: The Journey

4:09

nice of you to stop in today.

Age of Empires Online - Babylonians Trailer

I had 87 minutes to do this trailer yesterday, no joke.

Forza 4 July Car Pack

Forza’s monthly DLC pack trailers are pure auto pornography. I’m not really a car person, but those trailers make me want to be one. 

This trailer stressed me out. Partly because I don’t know a whole lot about cars, and partly because the sound guys at Forza know a hell of a lot about cars. They are also amazing designers. Next time I hope I get one with a little more room to breathe around the soundtrack like the March DLC Trailer. There’s some awesome design moments in that one. 

I also remixed their Horizon trailer a few weeks ago which I hope to share soon. Turns out there was some amazing sound design under all that dubstep.