Game Audio Hour

The trio of Vince, Alex, and Mike end up chatting about gear for much of this episode: little keys, big keys, and just right keys figure prominently! Games and music do come in as well, but you'll have to listen to the end to hear some of the fun albums that get brought up! Notable mentions include: Yamaha Montage M8x (workstation keyboard) Yamaha Reface DX (mini keyboard/synth reissue) Cyberp...

Mike, Vince, and Alex are back for another episode and are still wading in the wake of big business moves. Unity, Unreal, Bandcamp... there's all sorts of uncertainty on the horizon. Still, there's plenty of straightforward game audio and music talk to be done! Notable mentions include: Bandcamp (acquired by Songtradr from Epic) Tron (film, Disney; soundtrack by Wendy Carlos) Starfield (ro...

Vince and Alex commiserate and discuss some of the major issues hitting the game dev and music world right now. However, not even the double-whammy of Unity's latest changes and fraudulent DMCA claim soundtrack takedowns can dampen their enthusiasm for games, audio, and game audio! Notable mentions include: Two Feathers Studio (game audio design studio) Unity (game development platform) Starfi...

Just like the previous episode, Vince recounts going to a big video game show and Alex reels in excitement! This time, it’s the California Extreme classic game show and Vince talks about all the fun retro and modern video games he came across… but eventually, the duo get to talking about straight up audio design, mixing, and some of the tools and techniques that go along with it. Notable mentions...

Alex and Vince are at it again! This time, Vince starts off by chatting about cool things happening at the EVO fighting game tournament in Las Vegas, while Alex grounds things with some of the sound design work he's currently doing. Synths, workstations, and even some Japanese manga figure in the discussion as well! Notable mentions include: EVO (fighting game tournament) Twinbee (scrolling sh...

Austin Wintory joins the trio of Mike, Alex, and Vince to chat a bit about game music! From the beginning of Austin's game scoring to his latest work on Stray Gods and various forays in-between, the crew have a rollicking good time that, yet again, pushes the GAH to consider naming the podcast after another unit of time rather than a mere hour.  Notable mentions include: Stray Gods: The Rolepl...

Alex and Vince are at it, this time with the former making the latter quite envious with tales of roasted wild boar and hot takes on EQ plugins! Vince's Mac is back in the conversation, but plenty of other things also figure, including a decent amount of game playing on Vince's part! Notable mentions include: Midsummer (Swedish Holiday) Acoustica (Audio software / Icon Digital) Claro (EQ p...

Mike and Vince chat about June announcements... or in Vince's specific case, a lack of ability to announce when one of the not-E3 venues to emerge from the ashes of E3 is shut down. But Apple's WWDC has got both these composers thinking about their newest top of the line entries in computing. Notable mentions include: Mr. Coffee Apple Mac Pro Synful Orchestra The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel The...

Alex and Mike chat about a diverse range of gear, as well as an even more diverse range of relationships with their gear. Music competitions, old plugins, and new DAWs figure into the discussion as the two consider what make their tool and instrument choices the ones for them. Notable mentions include: Eurovision and Melodifestivalen (music competitions) Luke Black (Serbian musical artist) PSP 244...

The duo of Alex and Vince wax philosophical... but not before chatting about various bits and pieces of audio fun. Mic preamp buffers, iLok dongles, and germanium (atomic number 32) figure among the topics as they eventually wind their way through another GAH episode that is (of course!) rather longer than an hour. Notable mentions include: Tierra Audio (pro audio manufacturer) Alesis MidiVerb II...

Alex is back from a trip from Reboot Develop Blue and the remaining crew of Mike and Vince have to imagine the wonders of a beautiful town in Croatia playing host to a few hundred game developers. From there it's off to the races as it's an episode of Game Audio Hour that is... only an hour long? What a surprise! Notable mentions include: Dragon Age (RPG / BioWare) Cuberpunk 2077 (RPG / CD...

Vincent has NAMM happening in his backyard, Alex is moving forward by looking back at some 90s arcade classics, and the two connect for further topics and ponderings on game music in this episode! Notable mentions include: Future Music Magazine Time Crisis (arcade game by Namco) Radiant Silvergun (arcade/Saturn game by Treasure) Overwatch 2 (esports game by Blizzard Entertainment) Death Stranding...

Vincent, Alex, and Mike are back to chat about stuff the week after Game Developers Conference, and the trio have some thoughts about how they've extracted the most value out of that conference. Then it's on to the latest flavor of AI making the rounds, and then the stuff that the guys have been not-so-conspicuously consuming. Notable mentions include: Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical (...

Alex and Vincent are at it again, chatting game audio and going through a bit of history all the while. Hopefully you enjoy our BRIGHT and BUSY conversation! Notable mentions include: Citizen Sleeper (game by Jump Over the Age, soundtrack by Amos Roddy) - https://www.fellowtraveller.games/citizen-sleeper Nigiyaka (賑やか) Saturn Bomberman (game by Hudson Soft, soundtrack by Jun Chikuma) Streets of...

Alex recounts a tale of woe to Mike and Vince, but this one has a happy ending... and it doesn't even involve compressor plugins, for once! Notable mentions include: Logitech MX Vertical Mouse - https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-vertical-ergonomic-mouse.910-005447.html Civilization V- https://civilization.com/civilization-5/ The Umbrella Academy - https://www.netflix.com/title/801868...

Mike and Vince successfully chat about AI and music without making reference to HAL 9000, Skynet, or any other frightening fictional computer entity. They also spend time reminiscing on some of their first work in the game music space, more than 2 decades back! Notable mentions include: John Adams - https://www.earbox.com/ ChatGPT - https://openai.com/ MusicLM - https://google-research.github.io/s...

After passing a couple of new year's thresholds, the trio of Alex, Mike, and Vince are back with a new episode! Vince has returned from Japan, Alex has returned from the opera, and Mike has returned from hibernation to poke at various things through the lens of game audio! Notable mentions include: Roland Cloud - https://www.rolandcloud.com/ U-He Hive - https://u-he.com/products/hive/ GForce Oberh...

The trio is back... but only for an ever so brief moment before signing off for the year! Of course, they can't well go without mentioning that staple of New Year's discussions: RESOLUTIONS! They also can't go without some staples of GAH episodes past, which means: Conspicuous Consumption (of cookies and egg nog)! Notable mentions include: Jazz Hanon (piano pedagogy, Leo Alfassy ) Dmitri Shostakov...

The duo of Alex and Vince team up to offer a somewhat introspective episode this time around. Between reflections on a very early attempt to record voice actors for a commercial game, navigating the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and chatting a bit about recent game dev achievements, it's no wonder that this episode can't be contained to a mere hour! (But that's seemingly every episode these days...) Fea...

The GAH trio is joined by renowned game audio designer and music composer Martin Stig Andersen of Control, Inside, and Limbo fame... but there's more to him than just those titles! Alex, Mike, and Vince pepper him with questions and mostly avoid the usual Black Friday talk on this exciting episode! Notable mentions include: Tristan Murail (French composer) AudioSculpt (software, IRCAM) Studer (man...

The trio is now a quo... quado... quartet! That's the word! Mike, Alex, and Vince are joined this episode by Jeff Broadbent ( https://jeffbroadbent.com/ ), a composer that has an established career working in media, especially some of gaming's most well-loved franchises. We start from the beginning (Panzer Dragoon?!) and go on to chat about other history, advice, gear, and the latest things on his...

Alex and Vince are at it again! This episode features Vince trying to cajole Alex into coming to LA for GameSoundCon, but really it's all a front for how envious he is of Alex being able to hangout with Martin Stig Andersen for dinner while they were at the Reboot conference! Still, there's plenty of other fun stuff, from thoughts about Wwise to piano talk and game recommendations to make this a G...

Mike, Vince, and Alex have a special guest this episode! Brian Schmidt comes on the show along with his vast experience working on game, starting from pinball and arcade games in the mid-80s, through console hardware audio in the 2000s, and to the present day and his current station as founder and executive director of GameSoundCon. Along the way, the crew hits some great high points in game audio...

The crew of Alex, Mike, and Vince reconvene after a much needed summer break... and they get right back into it! Some new toys, new techniques, and a bit of consideration/prognostication about algorithmic music are par for the course here at the GAH headquarters! Notable mentions include: Dodotronic Ultrasonic Microphones - https://www.dodotronic.com/product-category/usb-microphones/?v=2a47ad90f2a...

Mike and Alex convene and chat about game music from some different angles, starting from the perspective of various software and how they treat music input/recording and representation, and moving on to their own interlinked experiences working as a game producer and music composer and those specific experiences working in game development. Eventually they chat about some true classic experiences...