WoW Fan Re-Engineers the Sounds of Stratholme
The venerable WoW.com tipped us off a while back that a one brave World of Warcraft fan had a dream: a dream that the game were full of richer, more lively, more intense audio for everything from looting corpses to the battle sounds of swords clashing and dying demons. So what did Ashram (Darksorrow-EU) do?
He head into his home studio, grabbed some free sounds and clips from the Web, and created his own audio track to match up with his run through Stratholme, that’s what he did. And it sounds fabulous! WoW.com interviewed Ashram about the process, the equipment he used, and how he feels about video game music and why it needs to be immersive.
This is just the first project from Ashram, here’s hoping we see more in the future and that Blizzard takes notice; there’s a lot of work that can be done with the game sounds and while they’ve done great work with the game and the sounds are fabulous as is, they’re so often underrated and there’s always room to improve.