As to your question in the description box, you should definitely consider listening to Lara Croft GO if you haven't yet. The way it communicates the idea of Lara immersed in an ethereal, pseudo three dimensional reality where calmness and havoc coexist in paradoxical synchronicity (it it makes any kind of sense) has made the soundtrack one of my favs for use in daily life when I need to focus on tackling a complex task.

إذا لاحظت فسوف تجد أن هذه الصخره لم يوقظها أو يزعجها سوى ضجيج البشر في ذالك دلالة واضحه علي أن البشر كائنات متجدده و متفاعله بشكلٍ كبير في هذا الكوكب البشر حرفياً يستغلون أي شئ و لديهم فضول على كل شيء و هذا ما يميزهم عن كل الكائنات حتى تلك الصخره التي لم تستطع التحكم في مصيرها و تركة نفسها تنجرف مع عواصف العصور و الأحداث

Poor Anderson Cooper. He failed to grasp the importance of the sounds in his virtual reality horror game. No wonder they thought it was unacceptable of him to ignore the importance of the role that sound plays in horror. He just wanted to impress the gamers. Thanks for your video man!! Excellent documentation on how to make sounds for horror games. Best wishes to you from Iceland.

I just started a game sound design minor at my college and i'm so happy i found this channel. thank you for all of the information

made me wanna play the game again after 5+ years damn

Instantly subscribed. So glad I stumbled upon this channel. Really great work man. Keep making more content pls! :)

I love the idea that this would be a simple game, that has god tier Sound Design

Ok that's some actual oomph added

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After watching this video, i now have so many more things i wanna try with our indie game's sound design for ambience...Thanks marshall!!! I've never thought so deeply about this before lol

The little „wobble sound“ the pokeballs make when you catch some 😂👌

I can only join the other commenters, I’m stoked at how detailed (AND fluid) your videos are !

Really nice video as always, Marshall! :D I decided to create my own take on the magic sound design: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5upmZaie5enmLMsi=0zkGrJkEK77bgr28 For a fun challenge, I avoided using any conventional explosion samples. The impact sound is primarily created by me kicking some wood pellets, combined with rock impacts. As for the 'dispersery' decay layer, if you can hear it, that's actually granular repetitions of rain on metal, recorded with a contact mic.

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Thanks for the video. It would be nice to hear your design as you added the pieces together.

Great video. I didn't even realize what the problem I had with DS sounds was until you said it. Idk why I couldn't think of the word but washed and similar to other sounds in game is spot on. I might remake some now just for fun. Cheers and be well

Is very poor rock he just sleep ❤❤

I felt like there also wasn’t a lot of narration on the enemies, like the dogs running up or skulls incoming. There’s no earthy sound in the purple spell or even a sound when the lightning is starting only when the ground spikes come up.

"Maybe 9 more years until this is a solid game" -- Dang dude, it only took you two videos to become a full fledged game developer. 😂

During the listening exercise in the beginning my sister who hasn't played the game reflected that the sound design mostly sounded like noise. She couldn't see the screen and had no idea what was going on in the gameplay. I generally like the aesthetic of Elden Ring's sound design but I think this unintelligibility is a big problem.

I definitely prefer the original SFX in the example compared to yours, but still a great video! Really enjoyed seeing and hearing the whole process of how you made your alternative.

I'm glad someone else thinks the Elden Ring SD is decent, but is way too samey. COmpletely agree with all points made about it, and am also eager for the next one to potentially push the boundaries a bit with the sound design. Great redesign too! I did my own a while back for the Radagon fight because of similar thoughts haha!

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Paper Noise is so basic and good

Great video. I'm also really not a fan of the sound design in that game for those spells. Super harsh and flat feeling. Almost anime style. Very dated feeling. Liked your redesign a lot though.

I love this!!!!! Need more videos in this category

I’d love to know what your recording setup for just “recording random items” is

this is so cool

Would be cool to have a video exploring dolby access, this video just showed me how wrong I've been using it lol, over using the base boost without mids does sound pretty bad but I got tired of not knowing what to do so I went with a flat line.

What's wrong with the gameplay footage, did you burn your hand or something?? Love your videos as always. I think you definitely have a point. There's something to be said for keeping things simple (personal struggle) but some of the sounds for sure could be more rewarding and powerful. Still, to be honest, barely anything bothered me from a sound perspective during non-analytical gameplay. They managed to create a world that's entirely unique to itself, also in sound

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Noooo... This is exactly the sort of sound design that I hate, and even the approach to really add punch to each sounds is exactly what is avoided successfully in Elden Ring. If you compare the original Demon soul sounds to the remastered one, they added a lot of punch to the sounds and it feels really weird in the context of the souls game. The fantasy aspect of the world that is needed to always remind you that you are living myths match very well the not overwhelming punchingness of the sounds. And the game design rules of always re-using some base of the sound to make it clear what type of attacks you are doing or the ennemies are doing remains a good tool in their game design toolbox

I think you did great job. Love the process , thanks man

Love these videos, keep them coming!

Wonderful video, sound design is such an interesting thing. Keep it up 👌

It always disappoints me a bit to see when creators make something cool and then follow up with, "I know it's bad..." This was a legitimately cool sound that you made here and it felt very strange and otherworldly. Granted I know that not everyone will agree, and therefore some nasty comments will come up and you're just preparing for those, but still this was a very fun watch.

Why does every sound redesign just turn it into hogwarts legacy sound effects

Don’t even do sound design but absolutely love this channel

Love these videos

I actually love how much fromsoft ignores game audio meta. Everything's so noisy, has a taiko hit, and some glassy verbed out magic. It's great. No punchy scifi impacts for them, I can get that anywhere else tho so its ok. Awesome explainers though, as always!

What bothers me a lot at this point about modern sound design, especially in big productions, is how overcompressed everything sounds. Everything has this extreme oomph and crunch to it. It bothers me a lot, because even simple footsteps on wood sound way too overcompressed. Elden Rings sound design is surely not the greatest, and the sound engine seems to be archaic as hell as well but at least it doesn't drown in compression mud that every sound has at this point.

can you make an equipment video with all the mics you use?

but yes the sound design isnt good

Hey im wondering how you organize all of your sound effects you made like this or recorded in the past? Do you just put everything in one big UCS Folder Structure or did you have one "Swiffer Duster Session" folder? im currently struggling to find a good solution because sometimes i might only have two or three recordings for which i dont want to create a single folder for... :) thanks for the video

I admit that I don't like the sci-fi phasey sound to your explosion. I prefer the original one. Although I agree with some of your criticism with the spell startup sounds, I do like that the fromsoft spell startup sound is a universal identifier for any player or NPC in the vicinity casting something, which I think helps.

This is so interesting! Proving yourself again as one of the highest quality channels on KZbin.

Your sound reminds me a lot of the Demon's Souls remake actually. Perhaps it'd be interesting to compare the sound design from classic Demon's Souls and its remake, and try to recreate the feel of both?🤔

Is anyone aware of any spectral expanders that would accomplish what he mentions at 1:15?

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I have basically 0 knowledge about the "FromSoft engine", but I always felt that the audio aspect of it must be very underdeveloped. In particular, it seems the devs barely have control over anything resembling dynamic mixing, let alone some more dynamic DSP effects. It even seems as if there's no proper way to blend samples based on distance, as even "massive sounds" usually simply get attenuated and that's kinda it. The criticism you mentioned about your redesign aside, it's a nice redesign, but I feel the primary reason it works better is because you were able to have more control over the dynamics and general audio focus. I can see the default FromSoft sounds work just as well if the engine would allow them to dynamically be more in focus, rather than having to try to statically balance all sounds against each other SOMEHOW. (And maybe it does but the devs don't utilize it, no clue :D)