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[Goldrusher]

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-caviezel/1/29/871

Senior Audio Lead
Polyphony Digital (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
April 2015 – Present (2 months)Venice Beach, CA
Currently a Senior Audio Lead at Polyphony Digital, creating audio for the Gran Turismo racing franchise.

Some of his past endeavors...

Audio Production Director
Microsoft
2011 – May 2014 (3 years)Microsoft Studios
Audio Production Director at SoundLab, the central audio production resource for Microsoft Studios. SoundLab is a multi-room audio facility dedicated to providing Sound Design & Music for any 1st party game published by Microsoft Studios. Recent games worked on include: Forza Motorsport 5, Ryse: Son Of Rome, Halo 4, Fable:Journey, Forza Horizon, Forza Motorsport 4, Kinect Star Wars, Nike+ Kinect Training.

Responsibilities include:
- Sound Supervision and quality control for all audio content produced by Soundlab
- Sound Supervision for individual titles
- Soundlab staffing, facility design and maintenance
- Sound Design
- Dialog supervision (Scripting, Directing & Implementation)
- Post-Production
- Game Mixing
- Music Mixing
- Music Composition

Audio Lead, Turn10 Studios
Microsoft Game Studios
October 2005 – 2011 (6 years)Redmond, WA
Audio Lead at Turn 10 Studios, a division of Microsoft Game Studios. Provided audio for the Forza Motorsport franchise games, including Forza Motorsport 1,2,3 and 4.

Audio Lead
Sierra Entertainment
2000 – 2004 (4 years)Bellevue, WA
Responsible for all audio creation and implementation for many Sierra games from 2000-2004.

 

[strafer]

This is it guys...finally we're getting a proper Gran Turismo.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Huge pick up for them.

 

[Skii]

If the cars still sound like a vacuum cleaner after this...

 

[LiK]

Oh snap

 

[giancarlo123x]

If the cars still sound like a vacuum cleaner after this...

I like the accurate sounds of Dyson vacuum cleaners.

 

[Blablurn]

THIS IS A GAMECHANGER

 

[Natureboy99]

Interesting

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

ms am cry. /jk

Good catch, Forza has always had amazing sound.

 

[Nafai1123]

Good get.

 

[shinobi602]

Nice pick up.

 

[Hexa]

Impressive pick up.
Has Polyphony always had a presence in the US?

 

[Ban Puncher]

Skylines have never sounded so good.

 

[dugdug]

Looks like they took the complaints about the last two to heart. Awesome!

 

[Wynnebeck]

If the cars still sound like a vacuum cleaner after this...

I could have sworn the reason why they sounded so tinny in game was due to the constraint of file sizes or something of that nature I had read.

 

[krypt0nian]

DREAM TEAM ASSEMBLE

 

[eFKac]

Cool I guess.

Spoiler

I may be the only person in the world who is not bothered by car sounds in GT

 

[TheAdmiester]

Do any of his roles listed there relate to the actual recording of samples and not just the mixing/engineering of it? Because GT's problem lies in the actual recordings, not just the audio engine.

 

[Kane1345]

Oh shit, nice!

 

[Auctopus]

Gamechanger for Gran Turismo.

 

[VinFTW]

I could have sworn the reason why they sounded so tinny in game was due to the constraint of file sizes or something of that nature I had read.

Who cares why they sounded the way they did, it was awful lol

Forza has amazing audio, glad PD is finally taking the complaints to heart. I'd love to get back into GT again.

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

Was sound an issue for past Gran Turismo titles in terms of the vehicles sounding authentic?

 

[deim0s]

About time they focused on audio.

 

[hawk2025]

Huh, so they DO actually plan on improving the sound design?

I'm actually surprised.

Was sound an issue for past Gran Turismo titles in terms of the vehicles sounding authentic?

Oh yes.

 

[IcyBlueStrawberry]

If there's one thing PD needs to learn from Turn 10, it's sound.

This is good news.

 

[Duxxy3]

Small but fantastic news.

 

[bigboss370]

Shoulda just hired all the lost Evolution emplyees

 

[NullPointer]

 

[EGOMON]

I could have sworn the reason why they sounded so tinny in game was due to the constraint of file sizes or something of that nature I had read.

Yeah I remember Kaz making a blog and explained why car sound wasn't translated correctly into the game code or something

 

[Turkoop]

That was urgently ^^

 

[IKizzLE]

Was sound an issue for past Gran Turismo titles in terms of the vehicles sounding authentic?

Lmao...yes.

 

[Ricky_R]

I hope they hire Zimmers for the cars' horns.

 

[5taquitos]

This is huge for me, my hype for GT7 just went way up

 

[strafer]

Or they should ask the Driveclub peeps...they have some good sounds.

 

[TheAdmiester]

Was sound an issue for past Gran Turismo titles in terms of the vehicles sounding authentic?

Absolutely. The top 3 problems in the PS3 Gran Turismo games were these, IMO.

1. Sound design
2. Framerate
3. PS2-era track models for many tracks (the cars I can look past)

If you want an example of how bad they are, look no further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR2jL7onIJU

That's meant to be a V10.

 

[Megasoum]

Great news. About damn time they fix their terrible sounds!

 

[Blablurn]

I cant believe it. Its finally happening.

The game of the generation is happening.

 

[nib95]

Awesome pick up, though they should have looked to Evo as well, who as far as I'm concerned have achieved the best vehicle audio reproduction in a racer yet.

 

[Alcoholikaust]

My headphones are ready.

 

[psylah]

The Jesus guy?!

 

[Loris146]

Good news.

 

[Jomjom]

Will classic vacuum cleaner sounds be selectable though? It's about giving people choices!

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

Lmao...yes.

That's quite interesting, I've seen the series hailed as "The Real Driving Simulator", so I thought sound wouldn't be a weak point for the series and stay true to the authentic sounds of the vehicles.

 

[Akiyama_AE]

Thats awesome if it means the cars will have a wide variety of sounds now

 

[Ray Down]

Good get for Polyphony.

 

[nhlducks35]

Was sound an issue for past Gran Turismo titles in terms of the vehicles sounding authentic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK7HlCZVTZ8

 

[GarciaHotspur]

good news

 

[TheAdmiester]

Awesome pick up, though they should have looked to Evo as well. Who as far as I'm concerned have achieved the best vehicle audio reproduction in a racer yet.

Except for all V12/V6/I6 cars besides the Veneno.

 

[FranXico]

Not 100% related, but I'm wondering if there were any developers transferred from Evolution Studios to Polyphony Digital.

 

[Philippo]

Maybe the rumor from the other day (GT7 pushed back to 2017 to plish things especially audio) was legit after all?