Greetings Patrons,
Happy New Year! I hope you had a safe and joyous holiday season. I managed to sneak away to my studio more than I thought I might. Mostly I did lots of boring things like upgrade hard drives, tidy cabling and some basic sprucing. Between all that, I even managed to write some music.
This is a downtime ambience, meaning it's betwixt and between. A liminal space. It...
2025-01-01 17:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear patrons, and you alone!
The website versions will most likely stay as they are for the time being, but these re-mastered audio files are of higher quality than what appears o...
2024-12-22 19:51:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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I was playing around designing a rumble sound last week. I thought it came out pretty well so I designed an entire track around it.
Lava King is a boss. Like all bosses who live in subterranean caverns, he's mean - but also a bit lonely. He really (really) looks forward to visitors. He doesn't treat them very well though. He's a bit of a jerk actually.
The...
2024-12-18 18:33:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear patrons, and you alone!
The website versions will most likely stay as they are for the time being, but these re-mastered audio files are of higher quality than what appears o...
2024-12-14 16:28:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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As usual, I didn't start out writing anything in particular. Definitely not this holiday-adjacement music. But that's what came out! I'm not even sure why this seems so seasonal. Maybe sticking a glockenspiel, harp and cimbalom together just makes it happen? I need to look into this.
So here we are, in a large fantasy city, and it's festival time. Everyone is out ...
2024-12-11 17:19:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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Sometimes in the process of noodling around you stumble across something that makes you say, 'there's something here, but I don't know what it is yet'. This is exactly what happened when I created a synth patch that made me blurt out: "John Carpenter!".
As any sane and right minded individual knows, the man is a treasure. Not just as a writer/directory, but as a c...
2024-12-04 17:01:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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Before I drop everything and begin cooking for tomorrow's Thanksgiving dinner, I present to you the (usually) sleepy (and totally made up) county of Darkmoor. Darkmoor is in the moorlands, or moors, which if you've seen the horror classic "An American Werewolf in London" is a place you certainly shouldn't be wandering around after dark. I've always loved that film and I...
2024-11-27 18:10:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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As a longtime resident of New York CIty, I have an affinity for urban environments. They're not always the easiest places to live, but they do seem to offer occasional surprises that I feel like I wouldn't see in suburbia. Obviously, the country has it's own set of surprises!
Underground economies are interesting. Markets that emerge organically because there's a ...
2024-11-20 20:28:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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This track was entirely based around a violin recording I made a few weeks ago and revisited. It was kind of an anti-violin recording actually. Light bow strokes that only really hinted at the played note. Mostly wispy bow noise and organic sounding string vibrations. I had a heavy brass mute attached to the bridge to remove any of the body resonances and just focus on ...
2024-11-13 17:23:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear patrons, and you alone!
The website versions will most likely stay as they are for the time being, but these re-mastered audio files are of higher quality than what appears o...
2024-11-09 15:05:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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Goodhaven is a quiet, peaceful village on the banks of a river. It's a joyous and welcoming place. There's a lovely inn, bountiful game in the woods and a decent ruined church with catacombs nearby in case you get bored.
The ambience, as you would expect is verdant meadow, sparkling water and busy folk everywhere.
Musically this is Celtic adjacent. There's...
2024-11-06 17:55:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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As much as I love the pew-pew laser battle aspects of sci-fi, I also love the grittier, hard, humans expanding their reach in a hostile universe side as well. Logistics, resource management, and problem solving may not sell a lot of toys, but they make stories of future humans, or even aliens, more relatable.
That's not to say that this track, Red Sky Mine 2024-10-30 16:51:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear patrons, and you alone!
The website versions will most likely stay as they are for the time being, but these re-mastered audio files are of higher quality than what appears o...
2024-10-25 15:52:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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This started out as a funny thought: What if you, the dungeon master, had a bestiary of creatures at your disposal that were simply too unhinged to function properly. They refused to adhere to their stat blocks. They moved when and where they wanted. Sometimes they just yelled things. Sometimes they sat on the floor and drew grotesque pictures with their claws. Sometime...
2024-10-23 17:51:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's still fall here in New York City. In fact, most of our trees still have green leaves on them. But did that stop me from jumping head first into a winter themed ambience? No. No it did not.
I was trying out various microphones for violin recording so I figured I'd make that the basis of a new track. I wrote out a few simple melody ideas longhand before I decid...
2024-10-16 17:54:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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Unlike the word in its current usage, the original, medieval undercrofts, were subterranean. This is obviously the better and more correct way to describe a stone floored, vaulted ceilinged, dimly lit collection of rooms beneath a castle. I don't even want to discuss modern undercrofts as I think they have more in common with car ports and parking garages.
Now thi...
2024-10-09 16:40:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear patrons, and you alone!
The website versions will most likely stay as they are for the time being, but these re-mastered audio files are of higher quality than what appears o...
2024-10-04 15:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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As it's officially the spooky month, so I wanted to do a bit of sci-fi horror in the style of Event Horizon, Alien or Sunshine. Cryo Pods has all the elements of classic sci-fi horror. Atonal, arhythmic, and aleatoric. All the A's! But really, at its heart, it's the dichotomy between the fear of not waking up vs the fear of waking into a world that's stra...
2024-10-02 16:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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This track started out as a Halloween piece, but soon morphed into something magical. As you all know, this happens to me a lot and I simply follow the prevailing winds to whatever destination it's taking me to.
I think there's a bit of a Harry Potter vibe in here, so when I was coming up with titles, I wanted something ghostly and haunted, but not quite scary. Th...
2024-09-25 18:56:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear patrons, and you alone!
The website versions will most likely stay as they are for the time being, but these re-mastered audio files are of higher quality than what appears o...
2024-09-22 14:25:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: Oops! I forgot to add id3 tag info to the files. I've fixed that and re-uploaded them!
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Before anyone asks, yes, I do love the Ken Russel film "Lair of the White Worm". It's one of my favorite campy, low budget comedy/horror films!
This is not that. This wyrm isn't campy, it's lying in wait for a group of deeply silly adventurers who are going ...
2024-09-18 15:51:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Something happens to my brain when I hear a few notes played on the vibraphone. It goes straight back in time and I start seeing everything in black and white.
To that end, I embraced this vibe (oof, terrible unintended pun) and created a classic hotel lobby in the film noir tradition. It's in some city in the early 20th century. It doesn't really matter where, as...
2024-09-11 17:11:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear patrons, and you alone!
The website versions will most likely stay as they are for the time being, but these re-mastered audio files are of higher quality than what appears o...
2024-09-06 15:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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The first hints of autumn are descending on New York City and I do love a bonfire in the cool evenings (not in the city, of course). Which is to say, I was thinking about fires when I created this tribal/pagan/ritual track of a group of revelers around a large fire pit. I was probably also remembering the great Killing Joke video for their song 2024-09-04 16:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: Fixed the double 'no troopers' file and replaced one with Amb-only no troopers.
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This is one of those tracks that I've had in the works for a few months. I liked it originally, and then I didn't. I'd let it be for a week, then listen to it again, change things, add things, delete things - repeat.
Last week I opened it again and was finall...
2024-08-28 15:57:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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My end of summer vacation is a wrap and I'm excited to be back in the studio.
For the latest track, I found myself stumbling back into the universe of Dune. It's another one of my in-between state pieces. A mostly interior setting of a quasi-religious nature. But of course, it doesn't have to be.
I've always found the Bene Gesserit order to be Frank Herbert'...
2024-08-21 19:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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I know, I know, I should be packing... But! I managed to get all the sounds from the latest SoundPad, Bleakwater Docks, added to the Custom SoundPad tool. There are now over 1100 sounds to mix and match.
See you in a week-ish!
Tim
https://tabletopaudio.com/custom_sp.h...
2024-08-09 13:30:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
Before I introduce the latest track, I wanted to let you know that I'll be off next week for my annual beach holiday with the family, so there will be no release next Wednesday.
Also, the Bleakwater Docks SoundPad has been released to the public, so share away. I'll try and get the tracks added to Custom SoundPad before I leave.
--
Th...
2024-08-07 16:44:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
Here's a new SoundPad that I've been working on for a while. Astute observers will recognize the title from a 10 minute ambience I did a few years ago. There's also a docks background sound inside the Cthulhu SoundPad from the same year. I wanted to explore that environment in a bit more depth and see if I could expand it into a more fleshed out, living place.
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear patrons, and you alone!
The website versions will most likely stay as they are for the time being, but these re-mastered audio files are of higher quality than what appears o...
2024-07-29 19:26:21 +0000 UTC View Post