Lord of the Rings Pinball - Ep10 - The Two Drains
More attempts to reach Valinor on Stern’s Lord of the Rings. The Pinsound pack is running, the rules are known, now we just need to actually get to elf heaven.
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More attempts to reach Valinor on Stern’s Lord of the Rings. The Pinsound pack is running, the rules are known, now we just need to actually get to elf heaven.
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Ep09 is more Valinor chasing, more multiball paperwork, and more LOTR being one of the best games ever made while also acting like it personally resents you. We’re running the Pinsound setup again...
The connection issues are finally handled, which means Lord of the Rings pinball can go back to draining for normal reasons. We’re continuing the road to Valinor with Stern’s Lord of the Rings...
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Cut together a new Art of Pinball edit for the new Transformers machine with a heavy focus on my own sound design and mix work layered into my footage. Loud mechs, aggressive lighting, metallic...
Fresh back from Stern after getting hands-on time with Transformers. I don't have the Flu this time, so that's a plus. Lets chat live about being hands on with the next cornerstone game from Gieske...
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Greg drops into the sanctum for a full Shadow pinball lore dump. We’re digging through the history of the game, the movie, the callouts, the weird rules quirks, and why this machine still has one of...
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There’s a version of me that still buys hardware synths and swears I’ll use them every day. This is from that era (2018) A short 1 minute jam on the Elektron Analog Four MK2 with some percussion from...
This episode flips the switch on my reactive custom sound design system, except it’s now driven by a carefully curated grid of Franchi audio artifacts that have been accumulating for months. It...
