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Getting Hired On The Spot At Record Plant
- Buzz Burrows got his first job at Record Plant when a receptionist fired the front-desk employee and asked him, "What do you want?" then hired him on the spot.
- He entered the studio world eager and grateful, saying seeing the inside of Record Plant made him realize "this is where I'm supposed to be."
Game Audio Needed Authoring Tools Not Just Pro Tools
- Early PlayStation audio work revealed game audio needed authoring and integration tools, not just recording tools like Pro Tools.
- Buzz designed music systems that decompose sounds (e.g., crash into ten elements) and dynamically mix them so repeated events sound different each time.
Author Music With Tagged Musical Moments
- Do mark up musical tracks with musically relevant turn-on/off points and criteria so code can change music on beats or phrases.
- Buzz explains tagging repeaters (eighth-note percussion) and phrase-based tracks (melodic lines) with rules like "excitement > 100" to trigger them.