New SoundPad: Secret Agent (Patreon)

Greetings Patrons,

Here's the 28th entry in the SoundPad series, Secret Agent.

I've been working on this off and on for several weeks. During that time, I watched many (many!) James Bond films and attempted to distill them, as best I could, into some basic story telling audio components.

SoundPads are always a puzzle. How can I tell the most stories, with a limited number of sounds - and importantly, small file size (this one is about 4MB). As always, I start with backgrounds. Casinos, computer heavy command centers, tropical beaches, planes, trains and automobiles.

Many of these backgrounds work very well together. For instance, the Skydiving sound, essentially a rushing and whooshing wind, works as a wonderful overlay for skiing. Similarly, it adds excitement to the classic fight-on-top-of-a-moving train scene, for which Train Ext: was created.

Gun Battle works with everything, and if you're feeling Roger Moore-ish (or Archer), you can add Ice in Glass to everything as well - certainly with Jacuzzi! Try combining Busy Market with Car Chase Int: and Gun Battle, and don't forget to knock over a few fruit stands.

But really, the fun of SoundPads is figuring out your own combinations and sequences of sounds. There are 3 tone tracks which can all be layered together, or used individually, and 2 stingers (musical punctuation) for transitions. There are 4 musical tracks including a theme song which is an homage  *cough* to Monty Norman and John Barry.

I often include the musical tracks as Patreon downloads for SoundPads, but for this one I'm including all 36 sounds as a patron bonus.

These should appear in the Custom SoundPad as soon as I can get to them.

Finally, (sorry this has been so long) I'm leaving this Friday for a much needed 10 day vacation with my family. Apologies in advance if I'm not as responsive as usual.

Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.

Best,

Tim

Secret Agent SoundPad 

ps. check out my Instagram for a very silly trailer video I made for this.