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Whew!  It’s been a little while since my last update!  Several changes have been happening in my world lately; the most notable is that I have resigned from id Software and will be moving to the Pacific Northwest area very shortly (like…in three days)!  I’m sad to say goodbye to my id family and will always be excited to see what they come up with, but I am ridiculously excited for the future. In the meantime, I’m pleased to announce … Continue reading

Recording: 1969 Chevy Camaro 427 V8 big block

A couple of weeks ago, I was up visiting my family at my brother’s place.  He’s had a ’69 Camaro for over 15 years that he’s been meticulously restoring. This is what it looked like shortly after he originally got it. This is what it looks like these days. As you can see; it is a gorgeous piece of hardware. — We decided to test out my dpa 4061s with a quick and dirty recording session.  We mounted the mics … Continue reading

Recording: Air Ducts

Whenever I move into a new place, I try to go through and record all the vents, doors, cabinets, and anything else that might make a noise.  I recently unearthed a few recordings of some air ducts I did shortly after moving into my current place.  Each vent has its own personality and some of them get REALLY loud.  In the following clip, I moved the mic around to different locations within the airflow and then started tweaking the vent … Continue reading

Articles/Interviews

I recently added a new page here on the ol’ blog that contains links to a few articles and/or interviews that I’ve done over the years. I know I have a few others lurking around somewhere…I’ll have to start digging through the archives… If you’re interested, check them out!  It’s pretty entertaining reading some of them from the first couple of years in my career.  I was a spaz.  Not any more.  I’m totally normal now.  Yep.

Sound Recording: Plunger

Did a really quick upload to a small snippet from a 30 minute session of me with a plunger in a toilet. Yep. That’s how I spend my Wednesday nights. No editing or anything. Just sliced it out of the session and uploaded. Have fun! PLUNGER water toilet gurgle slosh splash water liquid ZQ 2 (Snippet) by Zachary Quarles