Portfolio
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Music | 01 Blues In The Closet
This is the award-winning track in The SSL Prize for Recording, Editing, and Mixing competition in Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. The artists in this music are Josh Taylor - the double bassist, Nick Adams - the pianist, and Rob Harper-Charles - the drummer.
The purpose of this recording was for the module Music Technology and Sound Recording's EP Production. The track has been mastered with Maselec devices in the Mastering Suite in the Conservatoire.
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Music | 02 Suite Bergamasque Prélude
This piece of music was recorded in the second year of my undergraduate course, and it was recorded in sections. The purpose of presenting this piece of music in the portfolio is to show the stereo microphone technique to record a grand piano and the post-production of this solo music instrument piece. It is performed by Orestis Magou, recorded in the studio in the old Birmingham Conservatoire building that is now demolished.
The microphones used and the stereo placements are
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Close Blumlein, AKG C420
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Far Spaced pair, Aston Spirit
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Far Mid-side, AKG 414
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Music | 03 Overtune 'Bastien und Bastienne' - Mozart (1756 - 1791)
This piece of music was recorded on the 22nd of February 2017 in Town Hall Birmingham. The title of the concert is Orchestra of the Swan - Mozart, Meet Joanna Lee!
The microphones used for recording this concert were
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DPA 4006, the main spaced pair behind the conductor, and out rig spaced pair on the stage
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C87, Spot mics
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AKG C314, contrabass
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Music | 04 CBSO Youth Orchestra: Mahler's Sixth
This piece of music was recorded on the 25th of February 2018 in the Symphony Hall Birmingham. The title of the concert is CBSO Youth Orchestra: Mahler's Sixth, conducted by Jac van Steen.
The microphones used for capturing the symphony piece are
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AKG 414, spaced pair of out rig
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AKG 414, spaced pair center
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NT2000, rear spaced pair with a figure of eight polar pattern
Music | 05
Music | 05 Serenade for 13 Wind Instrument - Richard Strauss
This recording was a session assisting Dr. Simon Hall - Head of Music Technology to record the woodwind department in Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. The role of assisting the session was to set up the microphones and track the recorded takes in Pro Tools by managing the session by adding markers to the preferred takes of the recorded sections. The piece of music is originally 8.45 minutes, the music that you're listening to is the shortened version by editing different sections and make it flow without giving any hint of flaws.
The microphones that are used in the recording session are
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Sennheiser MKH40 - XY pair behind the conductor
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AKG 314 – Spaced pair out rig
Video | 01
Video | 01 Big Hero 6 - Sound Remake
This is a quick sound remake for a coursework - Music and Sound for Visual Media. The sounds in the clip are 98% foley recorded, the video was given by the lecturer and so it is not in HD quality. Understand that the sound design can still be better by polishing up and adding new layers of sound, but this showcases the ability to finish a clip in about less than 3 weeks.
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Video | 02 Digi Diwali - Sound Remake
This sound effects remake was a random motive out of boredom in the Covid-19 lockdown time. The sound remake does not include the narrator and music.
Video | 03
Video | 03 Pixar Minion - Sound Remake
This sound remake was mainly just for fun, and it was done with my friend Lexi Chan. Both of us recorded the ADR by ourselves by doing random words with the ad-libs.
Video | 04
Video | 04 Energizer 'Max' TV30 - Sound Remake
For this sound remake, it is also a collaboration with Lexi Chan. She is the composer for the clip, and I am the audio editor and sound designer. We did the audio & video mastering together to perfect the sounds.
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Video | 05 Freelance
This sound design was done for a student project in Shanghai Institute of Visual Art and has done in a very limited time. The file and communication are mainly through online social media, and the ADR was recorded by the Chinese so it was tricky to sync the voice when they changed the story in the middle of the project.
The requirement from the client for this project is to emphasize the string and movement sounds, and also to make the sound close to real situation sound rather than putting too much cartoon sounds.
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Video | 06 Disney Animation [Up] - Sound Remake
This sound design is the very first project that has been done for my Diploma course back in Malaysia. Though the sound effects are mainly downloaded and given by the lecturer, however, this project made me fall in love with audio-visual production and gained a lot of appreciation with sound design for films.
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Video | 07 INVASION! by Baobab Studio - Sound Remake
The purpose of this sound remake is for my final year project in my degree course. The topic of the dissertation is Translating 5.1 Surround Sound into Binaural 3D Audio for VR Simulator.
This project involved binaural impulse response, sound design, mixing in 5.1 surrounds multichannel format, two-channel stereo object-based format, and MUSHRA test.
The primary idea of this project is from noticing that people tend to listen to music and watch videos with a pair of headphones or earbuds more often in their on-the-go daily life to entertain themselves in their busy lives, and not everyone has a properly set up surround system in their house. Therefore, in order to bring the 5.1 surround sound's spatial characteristics to a pair of headphone, binaural would be the best option for immersive listening.
For more information about the project, please refer to the poster below.
Game | 01
Game | 01 Global Game Jam 2018 - The Infected Horde
Participated a 48 hours game design competition at Birmingham City University. This game is the winning game design in the year 2018 with the theme TRANSMISSION.
Credits:
Tahir Mohammed: Game Design
Richard Hobbis: Game Design
Sam Halls: Art
Valerie Kang: Sound
Stefan Radulica: Programmer
Introduction:
"A recent outbreak of an unidentified disease that is causing death and bizarre symptoms. You play as a sentient disease who wants to be transmitted to as many hosts as possible to survive and spread as a collective conscious."
To visit the game, please go to - https://globalgamejam.org/2018/games/infected-horde