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The ol’ “It’s been a while!”

Stosh Tuszynski

It’s been a while! I haven’t been terribly active online in the audio world for a while now. Partially from a desire to unplug, but largely because audio work has kept me very busy lately! Since my last post (June…

Schoenhut Toy Piano

My grandparents kept just about everything. They kept pictures. They kept trinkets. They kept coffee cups, little figurines, and toys. They kept important things and seemingly meaningless things… They kept memories. It’s not something I appreciated anytime I went over…

Building an Acoustic Diffuser

I’ve been slowly building up my home studio over the years. I’ve purchased speakers, monitors, televisions, computer parts, keyboards, interfaces… all that fun stuff. However when it comes to some things, I look at the price and just get angry.

Homemade Contact Microphone

A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to make a contact mic with my class at Columbia College Chicago. I’ve been interested in contact mics for a while now, but for whatever reason haven’t actually picked one up to…

Project Portal: Update 4

Another big step of my Project Portal mod is complete. Yesterday, I finished replacing all of the delightfully depressing dialogue of the Aperture Science standard-issue floor turret. I hadn’t planned on replacing any dialogue when I started this mod. I…

Project Portal: Update 3

Who wants to see a test run for some Project Portal sounds? You do? We’ll I’m glad I asked! In this update I bring you an in-game sample of what I call the “portal shoot sequence”. There are three core…

Project Portal: Update 2

Being back in my hometown of Galesburg has been great. Aside from seeing family and friends I’ve been able to get a lot of audio work done over this break. My work load toward the end of last semester brought…