Stop Mixing Game Audio in Your DAW!

I'm a 3d game artist and dev and these things are exactly applicable to prop and environment creation as well. Awesome Channel!

How can the compression (audio compression, not size compression) that unreal engine applies be turned off? I want my raw assets to sound right as the come from my DAW

I don't even know what a DAW is.

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it's literally just quieter because you recorded it with obs u numbskull

As someone wanting to get into video game sound this answered just about every question I had about “mixing” for video games, coming from a guy who normally mixes music and does film post. You just got a new subscriber, thank you for the great video!!

this is just general smart work ethic. imagine adding a lowpass filter to an engine sound collection, just to one year later want to lighten the filter but no longer having the source files. i totally agree with the notion that you should mix in your production environment!

Very informative video. Can you provide guidance/techniques for preparing background music for metasound. I would like to create soundtracks which have multiple moods that a game can dynamically transition between using triggers. ie. How should I provision stems for a dynamic soundtrack. That would be epic if you could speak to those issues.

Yeah man i think i cannot agree with your conlusion, there is a lot of preferences in editor settings and your loudness drop for the sound out pf engine could be caused by many things. When i have at projects settings set the upmix method to equal power im gettin the same loudness from engine as from daw, also the compression settings is not behave as compresor but as encoding to other format, to vorbis i believe, so there is a loss that could be heard at high frequencies but not so much in dynamic imho

When you said that we spend hours and hours making subtle tweaks and pitch variations for alternative sfx versions, I was like 'Yes, preach it brother!' lol

I teach a college class on sound design for video games and interactive arts, and this is one of the first points I try to make. In many ways it becomes similar to theatre sound design where you only create a "raw" sound object beforehand in the studio but essentially design the actual impression of the sound in the live space itself, through a purposely designed audio system. It's like that in any media to be honest, but this particular link gets kind of lost on a lot of people.