This is a demo of a recording session with some skaters in my hometown Dordrecht. I tried an m/s rig with an Røde NTG2 shotgun and a oktava mk12 figure-8 adapter in a blimp. The sounds did come out really crisp and clear imho :)

Skateboard Sound Demo

Niels van der Leest - Music Reel 2015

Niels van der Leest Sound Design Reel 2015

The music demo for UltimoGames new game "Working Class Hero"
I fooled around with the native ESP synth in Logic and made all the sounds you hear in these tracks with it. In addition to making it just that tad more gritty I used Logic's bit crusher.

Working Class Hero Music Demo

Some test recordings at a medieval shop Dragonheart in Enschede together with colleague Maarten Bonder.

Owls Session 1 Enschede Dragonheart 15 - 7-2015

Here's a little clip of some softer sounds owls can make :)

Owl soft clicking - Dragonheart Enschede

This is a compilation of a game soundtrack on which I've spend numerous hours on composing and producing. Sadly the project never got released.

Age Of Astoria Reel

A compilation of the tracks I produced for the Stella Dress-Up series of games by BoosterMedia!
I wanted each game to have something recognizable so I wrote one theme and molded it into all the various styles and genres to fit the ambience of the game.

Stella Games Reel

Here's a little demo of the music I did for Pac-Man Run.
Sadly the game is only playable in Japan.

Pac-Man Run - Demo

Wanted to share some recordings of my Tascam DR680 MKII.

Tascam Dr680 Mk2 Recordings

This is a recording I made with my makeshift Binaural rig (2 DPA 4060's fed into my TascamDR680MKII recorder)


Frogs Bieschbos Tascam680mkII DPA4060omni Binaural RX

This is a recording I made with my MS Rig(Sennheisser MKH8060 and a Oktava MK012 with a figure8 adapter fed into my TascamDR680MKII recorder)

Frogs Bieschbos Tascam680mkII SennMKH8060 OktavaMK012F8 RX

First track for the Original Soundtrack of Phoenix II (iOS)

Phoenix II OST - Horns Of Despair

Track 2 of the Phoenix II OST
Feat. Nick Jongejan on the valorously played 6 string

Phoenix II OST - Strings Of Valour

Windorgan Vlissingen, The Netherlands Tascam680mkII Dpa4060 Stereo Omni

This track is meant for Timo Vissers new game "Autobahn bei Nacht".
I tried to give an 80's synth music feel to the music, being inspired by Kraftwerk and such :)

The track is to be an adaptive track!

With the projects together with Timo Visser I try to push my boundaries and do something I have never done before...thus learning and honing my skills as a composer.

Check http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/users/Timbermannetje for more info on Timo Visser's projects.

Autobahn bei Nacht

These are two tracks Matthijs Dierckx and me did for our Global Game Jam 2013 Game!


B-Minus 50 How High can you Die! (Niels van der Leest)

Here are a collection of sounds made for the Amsterdam Global Game Jam 2013 winner B-Minus 50!

B-Minus 50 sounds

Niels van der Leest (born in Enschede on October 22 1976) studied classical percussion on the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam.
During and after getting his Master degree Niels played in some of the best orchestras in Holland and was a player in the successful percussion group Circle Percussion.

Niels is still playing in AbSurdo (THE samba group of Holland), teaches percussion on a couple of music schools and conducts a percussion group in Houten, Holland.

After some years of performing as a professional percussionist Niels decides to listen to his urge to write down his musical ideas instead of only playing the notes someone else wrote. His biggest dream being: writing the music to a computer game.
His love for the medium games started when he played Final Fantasy VII, which was accompanied by music of the Japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu. 

Niels is working on fulfilling his dreams and starts arranging and remixing game music for his percussion students. When his arrangements are played with lots of fun, the performances lead to enthusiastic reactions and more requests for “his” music start coming in he starts writing original music.
In 2007 Niels won the publics prize in the Interface SoundGame Contest with 46,4% of the votes. 

In the course of the years Niels has worked on a lot of award winning games, commissioned works, tracks for commercials and sing-a-song writers and of course his solo albums.

Niels has proven to be a market-oriented composer, arranger and sound designer, with high quality, professionalism and originality as his top priorities.


“Writing to enhance instead of distract”

Niels van der Leest

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