You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 164.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

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In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips, tricks and insider information

to help you portray characters in animation, video games and beyond.

And now here's your host, voice actor Crispin Freeman.

Hi there, my name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide through the world of voice acting.

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Welcome to the first part of my interview with accomplished composer, sound designer, and audio

director for video games and films, Crispin Hans. Yep, you heard that right. For this interview,

you've got two Crispins. Crispin Hans and I first met back in 2006, when we were working on

the video game Company of Heroes. I was playing the role of

Sergeant Carotta, and Crispin was filling many roles on that project, including audio director,

sound designer, audio tech designer, writer, and voice director. It was a pleasure to meet a fellow

Crispin, especially one who was so enthusiastic about developing

great audio for games.

You may also be familiar with some of the other games that Crispin has lent his composing

and sound design talents too, including Metroid Prime, Neverwinter Nights, the need for speed

game franchise, as well as Gears of War 4 and 5.

In fact, here's a sample of Crispin's music from Gears 5.

This is the theme that plays when the character of Kate arrives at Riftwarm Village.

The song... The The And here's another track from Gears 5 entitled meeting Baird and Jack.

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