Creating Custom Track Presets in Pro Tools

If you haven't yet, take the time to check out this video showing how easy it is to set up your own custom track presets in Avid Pro Tools:

Although having templates is efficient, I like the ability to have a track specifically for each situation. Steinberg has had a similar feature for a while in their DAWs, and I'm stoked to have found a simple way to do this in Pro Tools as well.

Miko and Cola

I'm stoked that Miko and Cola is nearing completion! This is an interactive story app from Gabuduck.

I've been working away the past several months on many facets of the soundscape including: voice-over, sound effects design and implementation of the dialogue, music and sound effects in FMOD Designer.

I look forward to the release and hopefully I'll post some video footage of Miko in Cola in action. I might even do a postmortem reviewing the design of reverbs in FMOD and the challenges of having your programming team on the opposite side of the country. Stay tuned!

Disc Golf Putt Message Alert Tone

If you didn't already know, I love to disc golf! There are few sounds I enjoy hearing more than the clang of the chains when I sink a putt into a disc golf basket.

I wanted to customize my iPhone with my own unique alert sound for incoming messages. There are probably other disc golf sound effects out on the internet, but I never pass up an opportunity to record my own sounds.

Recorded at Red Ridge Disc Golf course:


The file is free to download. Read this article for an easy step by step guide on how convert the file into a .m4r tone to sync with your iPhone. Cheers!

Omnichord! Excellent!

Omnichord + Sennheiser MKH 8040 + Sound Devices MixPre + Zoom H4n + Sennheiser HD 280s = Today's sound design fun!

I always try to maintain perspective and be thankful to have opportunities to do this type of work.