A remaking of the Terminator 2 Main Theme, one of my favorite quasi-electronic tracks. Remade in MuLab Free using Miroslav Philharmonik and a modified Digital Trance sound from Mulab. Stayed within the 4 track limitation (would've added the ending violins if I had another track and volume control, but no such luxuries for this one).

Terminator 2 Theme

Easy Questions theme from manatee quiz game at Mote Marine.

Easy Questions

2115 OST

Demo - 2115

Lab soundtrack for 2115 Mote Marine game.

Lab - 2115

The Black Museum soundtrack for Mote Marine's 2115 game.

Black Museum

Underwater Theme for Mote Marine's 2115 game.

Underwater Theme - 2115

Lightning Begin intro stinger in Mote Marine Manatee Quiz game.

Lightning Begin

Lightning Round for Mote Marine Manatee Quiz game.

Lightning Round

The announcement voiceovers for a potential upcoming project. Heavily based off of Super Smash Bros. Melee's stadium announcer voice.

The effect itself is quite easy to accomplish:
1 - Amp simulator
This processes your voice the same way an amplifier would on a soundstage. The amplification must include a lot of drive and distortion to give the voice its unique texture.

2 - Chorus
Chorus divides the sound, as if multiple speakers are playing it. In a real soundstage there will be multiple speakers pointing in different directions. Chorus effects work better to emulate that than simply multiple instruments. And the distortion makes the often muddling from the chorus less obvious. This doesn't have to be too strong to work fine.

3 - Echo
The echo is what sets this sound in a stadium. It shouldn't sound like an outer space echo or anything crisp and on-beat: it must sound like the modulations of a stadium. The echo should wash the sound over a range, then fade out.

Other things to note:
Unlike most sound recordings, this actually sounds better recording in a room with low (but not completely empty) background noise. The noise adds texture to the amplifier and echo, and adds to the feeling of a live stadium. Make sure there's no specific noises (i.e. car horns, dogs barking, etc.), but yeah, this sound was recorded in my room without any pop filter over the microphone, positioned at an angle to the front of my mouth.

Your voice must be spot-on! Weakness and emphasis in the wrong place will ruin the effect completely. Figure out where you want to put emphasis, and play with that in the delivery.  I found it best to listen to my voice live and figure out the emphasis before recording one clip at a time. Some sounds are spoken at a normal volume while others are pushed up.

All Voiceovers - Group of 9

A cleaner version of the announcer voice, based off of advice from someone in a local game group. It sounds less retro, but more stable.

To be honest, I liked the heavier sound more. Even though it was tougher to understand the words, the purpose of this kind of announcing voice is to amp people up, and since most of the readings are going to be supplemented by text anyways, clarity is not as important as the final impact.

Group of 9 - All Voiceovers V2

The sound effect for a major item collectible. Very ethereal, heavenly, and mysterious.

Michael Fahel

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