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New Ambience: Stagecoach Heist

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As promised, here is the third installment of my Western trilogy. I didn't start off wanting to create 3 tracks but while working on the first one and I would get sidetracked with other ideas and start a new project sketch...

New Ambience: The Stranger

Edit: The attached audio files were updated on July 27th with better versions (I made some silly mastering mistakes that heard when I re-listened with fresh ears!)

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Here is the second installment of my (appar...

SoundPad: Wasteland (Remastered)

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I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.

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New Ambience: Frontier Town

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Years ago, when I was doing contracts for corporate clients I had a golden rule: 'leave the guitars on the wall'. I was brought into so many jobs where the previous composer had been a frustrated guitar player (aren't we a...

New Ambience: Magical Flora

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Here's a fairly calm, peaceful track that combines a breezy summer's day with some slightly odd plant life. I toyed with calling this "Alien Flora" but I didn't want to immediately cast it as sci-fi (which it absolutely co...

SoundPad: House on the Hill (Remastered)

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I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.

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New Ambience: Ghost Ship

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Sailors have always been a superstitious bunch. Life at sea in a confined space can do that to a person I suppose. Nothing spooks a sailor like a ghost ship though.

Technically the term "Ghost Ship" means two things...

New Ambience: The Madding Crowd

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The music for this one felt kinetic as I was working on it. Not in an action cue way, it had more of a 'bodies in motion' vibe. It reminded me of walking around in a big city (something I'm quite familiar with!).

T...

Surround Experiments Part Deux: Online Testing

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I had posted previously about my early experiments in surround audio but I realized that it didn't make much sense unless I could deliver them via the web. So I've mocked up a page and included a few of the test ambiences....

New Ambience: Counting House

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As many of you know, I'm always interested in minor locations and liminal spaces. Most of our time in games happens outside of combat. I love an epic set piece as much as the next gamer, but it's the simple locations and ...

SoundPad: Age of Sail (Remastered)

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I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.

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New Ambience: Hidden Passage

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This track falls solidly into the action/adventure category. It's got a bit of suspense that leads into action and back again. You and your party have discovered a way through, around, or into some other place. How's that ...

New Ambience: Pagan Woods

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I was playing the excellent Hellblade video game this week (the first one) and loved how immersive they made the atmosphere. Everything seemed alive, and dead at the same time. I started by sketching out drums and the dron...

New Ambience: Mainframe

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I was experimenting with some extreme audio processing of organic sounds this week. I had a few recordings of me playing a ney flute (ok, playing may be an exaggeration) which I sent through some granular syn...

New Ambience: Rebuilding

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After a terrible attack, mystical calamity, storm, or quake, a town gathers for repairs. That's the idea behind this track. It's about positivity in the face of adversity. It's about a community that rolls up its sleeves ...

SoundPad: The Tavern (Remastered)

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I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.

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New Ambience: Jungle Bunker

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I've been working on this track for a few weeks. It's fairly complex so it was something that I kept going back to, making changes, tweaking things, etc. My original plan was to have it done by May 4th (Star Wars Day) but...

SoundPad: Combat (Remastered)

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I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.

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New Ambience: Stakeout

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Here's an urban noire, surveillance, cyberpunk, underscore mashup. In my constant quest for liminal spaces and environments, I've always enjoyed a good stakeout. Stakeouts are a lot like fishing in that the activity is a p...

New Ambience: Collegium Magica

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Here is a fairly quiet, meditative track featuring a large reverberant space, populated by mages and other students of the magical arts, deep in research.

The ambience was the first thing I began with. I combined rec...

SoundPad: Olde Towne (Remastered)

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I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.

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New Ambiences: Tomb Guardians

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I've always loved the film Jason & The Argonauts (1963). My favorite scene was when Hercules and his companion encountered the giant statue of the titan, Talos. When the statue turned his head for the first ti...

New Ambience: Ship of the Line

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Or should I say, Ahoy! This week's ambience takes us to sea in a fast, sturdy ship. This is one of those tracks where the music decided what the eventual ambience was going to be. A few days into it I began thinking it sou...

New Ambience: Forgotten Forest

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One of my absolute favorite ways to begin working on a track is by simply playing around with combinations of instruments. In this case, I was using several orchestral tuned percussion instruments where I might normally ch...

New Ambience: Docking Procedure

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The working title for this ambience was 'big things moving slowly'. I was going for a feeling of weight and inertia. I knew it was going to be sci-fi, but like all my favorite sci-fi music, it didn't have to be.

The ...

Samurai HQ (2014): Bonus Tracks

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As many of you know, I didn't always create bonus tracks for ambiences. That came about organically when a few people asked for small changes (no rain, no footsteps) and I thought that if I planned the projects better from...

New Ambience: Nautiloid Escape

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Like many of you, I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3. The problem I have with video games (aside from being quite bad at most of them) is that a) I don't have much time to play and b) I only play an hour, max, before either...

SoundPad: Starship (Remastered)

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I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.

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New Ambience: Viking Tavern

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What's better than a cup of strong ale, and a warm fire after a hard day of pillaging villages? I suppose you could be a community of pacifist Vikings who just built a school for children, but, I wonder,  would the th...

New Ambience: Treacherous Path

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Sometimes there's a reason that it is the road less traveled.

I was dreaming up this scenario where a party has a long distance to cover, and one member (we all know it was the bard) pipes up and tells everyone he kn...