HeyJaredSound Business with Akash Thakkar
Join professional audio designer Akash Thakkar as he interviews successful audio professionals from every corner of the music and sound industries.
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How to Stand Out in Game Audio with Presley Hynes (opens the original)
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#96: Today's guest is Presley Hynes who is a sound designer based out of Edmonton, Canada. Presley is currently senior sound designer at Gearbox, and has worked on projects like Borderlands 4, God of War: Ragnarok, Anthem, and many others. In this interview we talk about how Presley started as a classical piano player, moved on to become a percussion player, worked in live sound, and then eventually ended up studying game audio, how she learned the skills needed to "make it" in the field, what s
Jazz Composition, Game Audio, & Working at Valve with Tim Larkin (opens the original)
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#95: My guest today is Tim Larkin, who's based out of Spokane Washington. Tim has been playing trumpet and piano since a young age, and has performed with artists like James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Sheila E, and many others. Tim has also worked in game audio for over 30 years, including 21 years at Valve Software working on titles like Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, Half Life 2: Episode One and Two, Portal 1 and 2, Artifact, Dota 2, Riven, and Myst V, and many others. In this interview, we dive into how T
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