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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵

@polarityaudioworks.bsky.social

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I make sounds for everyone who needs them Character Demo Reel Producer VO editor and more Indie rates available Always looking for work https://polarityaudioworks.com/ Occasionally talks about games and stuff

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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 23d

A game I was the sound designer on has a demo out. Help a girl out and check it out!
agoninteractive.itch.io/maple-and-al...
#indiegame #indiedev #fantasy #bears

Maple and Aluna by Agon

Fight as Maple and Aluna. Slaughter foes, capture altars, and utilize powerful mystics to survive the eternal winter.

agoninteractive.itch.io

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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 9h

Same. I've been doing so seamlessly for over 10 years

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 14h

Krotos Studio

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who has to float between mediums...games is the best compensated out of them all. It's getting worse that I don't think I'll survive in audio for a full career even though I have 10+ years experience. The cost cutting is beyond nuts that audio peeps aren't being used at all for audio

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 1d

Would you try to stay in audio if you ever did, if you don't mind me asking? Audio is on life support right now pretty much in everything 🥲

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 2d

Having an offline no screen hobby really helped me from feeling yuck all the time. Cannot recommend finding something you click with enough

This is my most recent cross stitch project, Stitch. Over 100k stitches and took me half a year to complete 😅

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 2d

I tried a dante audio setup once. It was a frustrating experience 😅

I understand the benefits but man it hardly worked properly

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 3d

If you mean the zap spell glitch, nope

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 5d

Why are we moving platforms again 😅

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 5d

If it wasn't clear um... get in touch and we'll see what we can make happen! ☺️

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 5d

Hey #indiedev community.

If I were to run a special for you to have sound effects for your game, what price amount per sound would YOU be willing to pay?

#games #gameaudio #indiegame #gamedev

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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 9d

I was given one by an old relative years ago. It's somewhere in void that is a basement 😵‍💫

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 10d

Idk about the Steam Deck but definitely play Stranger of Paradise. The opening scene is imo one of the top 3 best produced opening cutscenes. The blocking, music, lighting are all so so good

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 14d

Digimon!! ☺️

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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 15d

I like working on #VoiceActors demo reels because I get to help people on their journey for their field while continuing my journey in audio engineering/sound sound design

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 16d

Anyone need an audio pro for their #indiegame, #animation, #webseries, #audiodrama

*Screams into the endless void*

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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 18d

Silent Hill: Bear Edition

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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah layers in sound design are important but what really makes a scene come alive via sound is all about movement: panning and EQ changes

A static mix will void any scene of "life"/immersion

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 21d

Sound Design is like drawing for sound. You have to "sketch" out the idea then fill in the details

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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 23d

A game I was the sound designer on has a demo out. Help a girl out and check it out!
agoninteractive.itch.io/maple-and-al...
#indiegame #indiedev #fantasy #bears

Maple and Aluna by Agon

Fight as Maple and Aluna. Slaughter foes, capture altars, and utilize powerful mystics to survive the eternal winter.

agoninteractive.itch.io

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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · 23d

I've entered my granular synthesis phase of my career for monster design, which combines my organic style with synthesis that I will put that 🤬 on everything
#audio #sounddesign

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just putting it out there that I'm opening 5 commission slots for character demo reels for #voiceactors for September
$125 CAD for dx edit, mix/master
$175 CAD for dx edit, sfx, mix/master

CAD = Canadian dollar which is less than US dollar

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · Aug 14

Apparently you don't respond to more than one person on here so I wrote my response to the original asker if you're interested in my answer 😅

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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · Aug 14

It was just a different sfx looping technique that's way faster than how I was taught that I stumbled across on YouTube youtu.be/NbahluQfbpc?...
The only addition I do for this is to ensure the cut is at the beginning of the wave cycle or the end to ensure it's clean to prevent clicks

Video Game Sound Design Tutorial - How to Make Looping Sound Effects

YouTube video by Akash Thakkar

youtu.be

Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · Aug 13

I love learning new audio techniques that make my life easier but sometimes when I learn a new thing that's WAY better than any previous methods I've done it's like "how did I not think of this?!"

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Sarah 🎙️🎧🎵 @polarityaudioworks.bsky.social · Aug 12

You could always get a satchel or those mini backpacks 😅