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New Spire RPG Ambience: 'The Heart'

New Spire RPG Ambience: 'The Heart'

Greatings Patrons,

A couple of months ago I mentioned that I had been asked to contribute ambient audio tracks for Grant Howitt's (Goblin Quest, Unbound, One Last Job) new RPG, The Spire

I asked Grant and company if t...

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New Ambience: Crossroads

New Ambience: Crossroads

Greetings Patrons,

I'm getting packed up to leave tomorrow morning to pick the kids up at camp and then drive down south for a week with my wife's family. I guess the South was on my mind because I started laying down the broad strokes for this sev...

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Site issues fixed:

Apologies for the interruption this morning. The issues with the site content not loading have been fixed (user error, totally my fault!), although a page refresh may be in order. 

Now back to regularly scheduled programming!

-Tim

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ENnies 2017 etc..

ENnies 2017 etc..

Greetings Patrons,

I was out on the town last night and not checking my phone, but, I discovered in the cab ride on the way home that Tabletop Audio had won a gold medal for 'Best Website' at the 2017 ENnie awards at GenCon. Since the only way for ...

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Quick Update: Spire RPG

Greetings Patrons,

Kids have been dropped off at music camp for 2 weeks so I'm finally going to do all those things that I've been putting off, like...cleaning my studio. 

Honestly, it's a disaster. This wasn't helped by the fact that I'...

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New Ambience: RavenPuff Common

New Ambience: RavenPuff Common

Greetings Patrons,

I hope your summer has been going well. NYC seems to have been spared the brutal heat for a couple of weeks. Good news for those of us who work in studios where the A/C is constantly being turned off for microphone recording!

...

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New Ambience: Antiquarian Study

New Ambience: Antiquarian Study

Greetings Patrons,

It's great to be back at home in Brooklyn after a wonderful 10 days in the UK. As a half-Brit (my mum is British) I have lots of family there and catching up with everyone face to face was fantastic. Plus it turns out my kids tra...

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Quick Update: 2 Things.

Quick Update: 2 Things.

Greetings Patrons,

2 Quick Things -:

2017 ENnie Awards:

Tabletop Audio has been nominated for a Best Website ENnie Award. For those who don't know what this is it is an RPG industry award that's presented every year at ...

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New Ambience: Dwarven City

New Ambience: Dwarven City

This is a sneak peak for patrons, the official announcement will go out tomorrow sometime. 

I needed to get back down to earth after the last two abstract 'planes' ambiences, so I decided to go all middle-earthy and see what I could d...

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New Ambience: Astral Plane

New Ambience: Astral Plane

Greetings Patrons,

I'm giving you all a sneak peak at a sound I'll be announcing publicly tomorrow.

I wasn't really meaning to do another abstract 'plane' ambience so soon after Ethereal Plane but that's exactly what happene...

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Ambience use cases and categories spreadsheet

Twitch streamer and DM extraordinaire Neal "Koibu" Erickson  , (link to his Patreon) has categorized all current 112 Tabletop Audio ambiences according to sound type and usag...

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New Ambience: Ethereal Plane

New Ambience: Ethereal Plane

I have to be honest, none of my D&D games ever really ventured to the various planes. We were always pretty terrestrially bound. Taverns, dungeons, towns, forests. These were our stomping grounds and stomp we did! But there was always those few p...

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"True West" Sounds Now Available in Custom SoundPad

"True West" Sounds Now Available in Custom SoundPad

Greetings Patrons,

Just a quick note to let you know that I've finally finished adding the sounds from last week's True West SoundPad to the Custom SoundPad tool.

You can now mix these western sounds with all the others to c...

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New SoundPad: True West

New SoundPad: True West

 I'm releasing this early for patrons only (link at the bottom) so it's not linked from any of the other pages yet - Tim

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As a species, we have always loved tales of adventure. Brave heroes venturing into uncharted and dangerous lands...

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Text Filtering for Custom SoundPad

Text Filtering for Custom SoundPad

Greetings Patrons,

I've implemented a new feature on the Custom SoundPad that I hope you'll find useful.  It's similar to the text filtering on the home page, but instead of a living keyword dictionary for each sound, it just filters by title....

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New Ambience: Orbital Promenade

New Ambience: Orbital Promenade

This one started out from a field recording I did at Grand Central Terminal in NYC while waiting for a train. As I was standing in the main hallway (I was the tall guy with headphones, holding a field recorder and trying not to look suspicio...

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Text Filtering for Ambiences, and Graphics Update

Text Filtering for Ambiences, and Graphics Update

 Frequent visitors to the site may notice that I’ve done a bit of a spruce-up with the graphics. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for the longest time but as there’s an endless list of things to be done, graphics and tedious CSS tw...

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Lonesome West - Music Only Version

Lonesome West - Music Only Version

Edit Sept 2025:

Ok, here's a mystery. I was recently alerted that this attachment had disappeared. No problem, I think - I'll just re-upload it. But...I can't find it on my hard drive, or backups either? Like Han Solo said: "Th...

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New Ambience: Wild West Saloon

New Ambience: Wild West Saloon

Greetings Patrons,

For those of you who have told me I can never make enough taverns - here's a somewhat different take.  Much like the venerable fantasy tavern, the western saloon was the social and business hub of any frontier town.  It...

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New Sound: 747 Interior

New Sound: 747 Interior

 Greetings patrons,

This would definitely classify as a utility ambience in that it doesn't evoke the same movie for the mind quality that some sounds do. However, it is still quite useful, especially if your story unfolds at 30,...

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New Ambience: Carnival

New Ambience: Carnival

We just got hammered with a nasty March blizzard here in NYC and this time of year that always stings. So, to fight the protracted winter blues I decided to work on something that evoked warm weather.

The travelling Carnival is a c...

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New Musical Track: "Lonesome West"

New Musical Track: "Lonesome West"

Greetings Patrons,

The Western, as a genre is an integral part of America's cultural DNA. Images of wide open spaces, endless skies, lawless towns and frontier justice invoke the same sense of mystery and adventure that sailing adventures...

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New Ambience: Lunar Outpost

New Ambience: Lunar Outpost

I finally read Joe Haldeman's excellent Forever War last week. Plus, I've been watching the new season of The Expanse, so naturally it was time for a sci-fi ambience.

I took my cue from the classic - "we've lost contact with the o...

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New Musical Track: Weirder Things

New Musical Track: Weirder Things

Greetings Patrons,

The new musical track Weirder Things is either a shameless rip-off, or a sincere homage, you'll have to decide for yourselves.  But know this! I grew up in the 80s. I went to middle school and high school in...

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Combat:Future Sounds now available in Custom SoundPad

Combat:Future Sounds now available in Custom SoundPad

 

Greetings Patrons,

Just a quick note to let you know that all the sounds from the lastest SoundPad, Combat:Future, have been added to the Custom SoundPad tool. You can finally use your blaster weapons in the Da...

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New SoundPad - Combat:Future

New SoundPad - Combat:Future

Greetings Patrons!

I rarely do this but I'm releasing this today as a Patrons-Only sneak peak, so it's not linked from any of the main menus yet. I'll get to that over the weekend hopefully. Feel free to share it with your gaming groups of cour...

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Using SoundPads Offline

Using SoundPads Offline

 I almost forgot!

I wrote this post on my blog after getting a request about using SoundPads in less than optimal or zero internet situations.

As I mention in the post, I have tested this, but only to the point where I found it worked. S...

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2016: End of Year Retrospective

 Greetings Patrons!

As 2016 wraps up and I look back on my 3rd year of the adventure that is Tabletop Audio I thought I’d look back on some of the things we did together. As a creative type I’m constantly battling the notion that you will ...

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New Ambience: River Town

New Ambience: River Town

Greetings Patrons!

I hope your holiday season is going smoothly and you have had some peace and tranquility along the way.  To aid in this quest I've created a musical ambience called "River Town". River Town is a lovely place. The inhabitants...

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Server update:

Greetings all! Hope your various holiday seasons are going well so far and will continue to remain happy and stress free!

As many of you know I've been making some changes to the server in order to offload some of the heavy lifting and generally tr...

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