Equipment – recorder

Since I am always on a research trip, here are some of my latest experiences concerning recording equipment. I used to record with a Korg MR-1000. I switched because there were a couple of issues. Firstly: the preamps are too noisy. I don’t mean they are noisy, but just too noisy for my purposes. Secondly there is a high noise at about 50kHz – very annoying if you use it as a sound...

Cursed Mountain Launch Trailer

This is the official launch trailer for Deepsilver Vienna’s Cursed Mountain. Compared to other Wii games, it is probably the most impressive in it’s horrible, shocking and eerie game experience. There are always lots of rumours that the Wii is some kind of family console. Cursed Mountain proves that Deep Silver Vienna directed it’s attention to the adult part of the...

Wild cats recording

Life is dangerous nowadays as a sound designer. Especially when it comes to animal recordings. I guess I am a lucky guy, since the black Leopard was just 16 weeks old. It squeaks and kind of roars from time to time. He bites through chicken bones like a hammer which made me a little bit nervous. Listen to this: Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio...

Porsche 911 Carrera S

Very spontaneously David and I packed our stuff, rented a Porsche and recorded it. We got the car at 3 pm and found a good spot to record general sounds at 4 pm. After all the mics were installed we started recording at 4:30 pm. It is hard to place a mic inside the motor compartment of a Porsche, since it is tight packed with the engine. We used sticky tape again to fix the mics and cables...

Risen Release Trailer

The release trailer of Risen was done by Alex Pfeffer (music), David Philipp (SFX) and me. Always a pleasure to work with both of them. I used lots of self recorded sounds like swords, deep impacts, wood creaks and so on to check out how the newest recordings are working in a “real mix”...