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Jon Steinmetz wrote: j> I have a need to find someone to help with making > some sound effect files. [...] Does anyone have > any experience with anything like this? I can recommend Clark Crawford at the Harten Center for Underprivileged Sounds (http://hartencenter.com). Clark did some great sounds for my game Tri and for the FriendScopes app I created for Astrology.com, both on the iPhone. (He's also done sounds for a couple more apps, but they haven't been released yet.) I'll point out that his site provides a list of far-more-impressive clients than me. :) Clark has been very easy to work with. For FriendScopes --a kind of steampunky compatibility gizmo-- all I had to do was provide screen movies of actions that needed sound effects (gears turning, drawers opening, locks unlocking, buttons clicking), and provide a little direction ("this sound should be noticeable, but not *loud*"), and then he'd go from there. My Tri game has a lot of threes in it (the scores are even displayed in "trinary" notation :), so I gave Clark the directive "Think Three", without really knowing what I expected that to mean, audio-wise. He came back with sound effects that had tri-tone chords, and three-pulse echoes, each with three pitch variations ... and layered at decibel levels that were multiples of three ("just because"). Very cool. Reasonable rates, great results. I'm at the point now that it's difficult to think of releasing any app without running it by Clark for some audio enhancement. Regards, Don Don McConnell Day Late & Dollar Short Software | Tricochet daylateanddollarshort.com | tricochet.com
