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New Ambience: "Dark Future"
🕑 Added 2018-05-30 15:42:51 +0000 UTC Greetings Patrons,I had every intention of creating a space-based, sci-fi ambience this week, but sometimes, the thing you start with, isn't the thing you end up with.
I had this idea for a kind of gritty hard sci-fi vibe, something you might hear on 'The Expanse', which I've been watching lately. I wanted dirty booster sounds, and old, twisting metal. The sounds of soon-to-be-retired tech that's been patched together one too many times.
The more I listened and the more I manipulated the sounds, I realized that it was becoming more terrestrial than space. It's this type of exploration that I love about designing sounds for this website. Had this been a commercial assignment, this realization would have resulted in me abandoning the sound as it had strayed from the original creative brief. But, because I was free to explore wherever this was taking me, I continued to see where it would take me.
The answer of course, was cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is what happens when sci-fi becomes tragically earthbound.
Dark Future, as I now call this sound, is a ragged, futuristic ambience that can still be used in sci-fi stories. It will also work for dark modern stories as well. In fact - and I keep saying this - just ignore what I think and give it a listen yourself.
Thank you, as ever, for your continuing support.
best,
Tim
p.s. I recently updated my Patreon video! As you are all already patrons, you may not have noticed. I had to get over the fact that I dislike appearing on camera but I felt like the last one was getting a bit long in the tooth.
Comments
Matthew Arieta
This is awesome. We're just moving from a 3 year D&D 5e fantasy campaign into a new Starfinder campaign, so I'll definitely be using this and the other scifi sounds on Roll20
Tabletop Audio
No that wasn’t me, but I’d love to hear it. That track in the video is ‘weirder things 2’ and was an homage to the soundtrack for Stranger Things.
Awesome new cover video and I agree, nice to see the man behind the work. Hey, question. The background music, it sounds a lot like the score from a video game I love called Sunken Sea. Did you happen to be involved with that?
No rush. We all have life to deal with as well.
Tabletop Audio
Thanks! (I owe you a response on FB, I haven't forgotten!) - Tim
Watched the new video yesterday. Very well done and I love seeing the man behind the myth.
