I'm beginning to feel brave enough to show some of my friends my website. It may sound stupid to consider that a big deal, but it really is! ...Its one thing to show some complete stranger something and another to show your close friends. Their opinions are the ones that count!

In terms of Audio Progress, everything is coming along nicely! I'm gonna keep some of the sample tracks for a later post, but I will give you something...

Heres a small snippet of the recently recorded Cello part for Rosa Nuttys 'Silhouette'.

Just a quick update!

We're another step closer to finishing Rosa Nutty's 'Bunny' EP. All that's left to record now is the Trumpet in 'Fine Print' and I can begin the final mixing of it! ...Which will hopefully be finished before the end of May.

In terms of the job hunt, I haven't applied anywhere yet! my portfolio is still lacking. But, I did finally brave making the fabled Big Man Murph 'I'll Fight Ya' business cards... Although they started out as a joke, they're bound to peak people's attention... Take a look!

My sound design and composition projects are all under way - I'll discuss the progress in more depth when I've more to show.

Portfolio - I've began work on a few demo reels, I'm planning on dividing the reels up into categories and styles to make it easy on someone looking for a certain kind of composition.

That's my quick little update, Until next time!

~ Big Man Murph

I decided to start off with the 'fun' elements that are needed for some of my current projects.

'The Big Bad Wolf' - With no access to a wolf (Surprise, Surprise) I've had to make my own 'monster noises'. What better way to do it then growling and barking into a microphone? Afterwards I pitch shifted the vocals right down, and eq'd to where sounds good! It sounds good! Believable! And even understandable with dialogue. ...Heres a sample of the results!

This wolf is a boss like character in the game, a Giant Wolf that has an army of wolves at his command. I'll be using similar recordings and techniques for all the smaller wolves, except that they'll be a much higher register than the boss one. The only foreseeable challenge is to get a decent howl out of myself! :D

I've also Been working on the sci-fi brawler project 'Leap'. I've gotten a recent build and although it had no sounds in it, I felt the ones that needed to be done the most were the Window Smashing Sounds! Luckily a big glass bowl fell and broke at home yesterday. So with all the glass in a bag, I lifted it up and dropped it at various heights, moved it around, threw a big piece of glass back in onto of the rest. rearranged, Layered the results and eq'd it. A nice boost in around the 210hz made it feel like a strong body forced its way through the glass. Although, i'm not fully convinced by the results at the moment - Heres a sample.

I've also recorded some sword swings (thanks to a nice light bamboo stick) some switches, knobs and mechanical noises (Extension lead switches / preamp dials / A dehumidifier turning on) for the aviation games cockpit sounds.

I'm waiting for a nice bit of rain to come my way so I can get started on my environmental sounds.

~ Big Man Murph 

A wise man once said...

'you'll always have work, if you work for free'

How very true that is. 

I was disappointed to find out today that Mythros (The Minecraft Project from a previous post) were just 'pulling my leg' giving me all the details, what they want, what they need, when they need it. heres all the information... Thats Great, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Any Questions fire away!

...communication suddenly stops completely.

a few days pass and i Tried emailing instead, still nothing. today nearing a week later i messaged again saying 'Hey, whats the story, you never answered my last few messages - are my services still needed? ...or?'

'Hey sorry! don't know how i missed all your messages... yeah we gave someone else the work. good luck with your future projects.' 

Well that's annoying...

So I posted another classified ad on reddit. And within 5 - 6 hours. I've got 5 different people looking for me to do work for them! A sci-fi multiplayer Brawler, A hotline miami inspired FPS, A 2d Ninja Platformer, A Brothers Grimm styled hack and slash and an aviation simulator!

Heres hoping something becomes of all those requests! :D I'm only looking for something to bulk up the portfolio but I'd much rather someone get some audio in the process!

I'd like to end with some additional wise words... What The Wise Man forgot to say is that even if do a job for free, you won't be appreciated...

~ Big Man Murph

My work on Rosa Nutty's 'Bunny' Ep is nearing completion. I'm extremely happy to finally see it as a fully rounded piece of music but sad that its coming to an end...

Yesterday and Today we finished up all of her parts on the ep, solidifying all the takes and sounds - making sure we were both happy with it.

with only two main parts left to record, the ep is otherwise finished and just needs to be mixed and tweaked! We still need to record a cello part for Silhouette and a horn part for fine print.

Afterwords we prototyped the artwork for the EP so that we could visualise it / give the artist a fair idea of what Rosa wants.

I've no spoilers for you this post but there should be some 'EP Teasers' ready to show you guys near the end of the month. otherwise, we'll see about some horn and cello parts.

Until then,

~ Big Man Murph