Dear Transportees,

We’ve been cooking up lots of goodies these past couple months.  Some of our most recent work includes weekly trailers for Lawbreakers, music trailers for ABZU and some other exciting projects we can’t yet talk about.

Also, I just came back from Alaska and captured some recordings of:

• Glacier Boot foley
• Antique and Modern Trains
• Helicopters (interior and exterior)
• Sea Lion growls
• Boat motors
• Chainsaws
• Rapids and Streams

As always, stay tuned to our main page here and also our Facebook page for the latest and greatest from us!

– Eric

Hey guys,

Things have certainly been busy for us over at Transported Audio.  Lots of projects have come in, been given some sound love and have since gone public. Accordingly, we’ve updated our main page with some fresh new goodies:

• Batman v Superman Ultimate Edition trailer
• ABZU E3 Trailer (Sony)
• Lawbreakers E3 Briefing Video

We’ve also sprinkled in some old projects that we didn’t have the chance to post on this site back when it was originally built.

Any videos in particular speak to you?  Are you excited from a particular studio, company, show or movie?  Hit us up via the Book a Project button on the top of this page or email us at [email protected] to let us know what’s on your mind.

Lots of other exciting projects are heading your way soon.  Keep checking in here on our site for details as they come!

– Eric

Rejoice, gamer friends…. its E3 week!

We had the chance to work on a lot of games (and trailers) showing this week in various capacities.  Here are a few upcoming titles we had a hand in:

• Titanfall 2
• Gears of War 4
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Abzu
• Lawbreakers
• Hitman

We’ll post videos of some of our work on the main page soon.  In the meantime, enjoy the show!

– Eric

In post production, many people will tell you “when you get stumped, get up and get some fresh air.” It’s good advice- forcefully taking your mind off something you’ve been hyper focused on for hours can help freshen up your perspective.  But perhaps even more important is taking a giant step away for a few days or even a week.

I just returned from a week long journey across France after many months of frequent late work nights and tight deadlines. Naturally, the trip was re-energizing, but perhaps even more importantly it provided some unique opportunities for real world sound monitoring.

What does a downtown Paris street sound like during a rainy afternoon?

How about an abandoned chateau on the French country side?

Or various hallways in the Louvre on a busy day?

All intriguing questions that lack real world, specific answers if you haven’t actually been to France.  Sure, you could dig through libraries and imagine it, using what’s available on YouTube for reference…. but many details will surely be missed if you want it to sound accurate and, perhaps more importantly, your own.

Here are a few things I noticed by being there in the flesh:

– More than half the vehicles there are manufactured by French car companies many Americans have never heard of.  They are also primarily manual transmissions.

– There are tons of scooters, vespas and motorcycles- way more than in US metropolitan areas.

– Church bells reverberate through rural areas and small towns throughout the day.

– Many birds, while the same species as birds in the US (i.e. seagulls), sound VERY different there.  If you simply heard calls without seeing them, you might think they were some other exotic birds.

– There’s an incredibly old, island fortress cathedral called Mont Saint Michel.  Think Alcatraz but instead of a prison, a much older stone castle that shoots into the sky.  As I walked inside the various impressive rooms, everything was drowned in eerie, endless reverb.

– Around Memorial day and the anniversary of D-Day each year, many modern military planes fly overhead on the beaches of Normandy. They made for some excellent plane by recordings!

Those are just from a few days around France.  Imagine how much could be learned by visiting just a few more cities worldwide.

Granted, it can be exceedingly difficult to break away from work on a regular basis, especially when things are busy. But to learn and improve at any craft, it’s important to remember that we need to face new experiences.  It’s easy to burn out in such a demanding field, so open your door and go see what’s out there!
Pro tip:  Bring a Zoom recorder to record some of the sounds for your growing library.  It sort of makes it a business trip, right? ;-)

– Eric

It’s been quite the busy 2016 for us already!  Some of our work has finally gone live and we’re happy to share those videos on our home page.  Head on over to see new commercials, feature film promos and episodic TV content.  Some highlights are:

Independence Day Resurgence – The War of 1996

NFL Next – Virtual Reality / Oculus Rift

Old Spice Legendary Commercial

Rusnak Audi Commercial

Grace and Frankie – Season 2 Promo (Netflix)

Deadbeat – Season 3 Episodes (Hulu)

Which projects are your favorites?  Drop us a line at [email protected] to let us know what you think!

And there’s a lot more in store soon- exciting video game trailers, blu ray movie featurettes and brand new TV shows.  They’ve all been really exciting to work on and we can’t wait to share them with you.

– Eric

We wanted to share that a project we worked on last year is a finalist for a 2016 AICE Award!  We did some sound design work for Madden: The Movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eVF9uBbuqc

Here’s some information about AICE:

http://www.aice.org/?section=about/about_aice/