Avowed Spell Redesign - 30 Min Workflow Experiment

Hey Wigglers!

Today I tried an interesting expirement using constraints and was pleasantly surprised by the results - although there were some compromises! Here’s a quick take on a fire spell from Avowed using the constraints listed below.

Here are the constraints I gave myself:

• No Library Pulls - All Original Sounds

• Record sounds using built in phone mic only

• Manipulate the sounds using FX and Layering. *No layering with library pulls

• Record all of the foley with my mouth or household objects.

• Use a voice modifier preset app for FX only. No heavy DAW manipulation.

• 30 Minutes Maximum on Designing (I had 1 hour to make it and post before leaving for work)

The strangest and surprisingly convenient part of the workflow was using a voice changer app to manipulate the phone-mic-recorded instruments with FX presets. The presets are essentially different types of multi fx chains (pitch shifting, reverb, delays, etc.) so the process of building out detailed individual FX chains for each sound was completely bypassed.

This redesign was completed in about 20 minutes.

Overall I think it captures the “silhouettes” of the sounds. I think the biggest room for improvement is the crackling sounds which are surprisingly challenging to get right with this setup.

Let me know your thoughts below!