Mike Thal
Senior Technical Sound Designer at Freelance
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Thal is a Senior Technical Sound Designer with over a decade of experience crafting interactive audio for AAA and indie games, with credits including League of Legends, Ghost of Tsushima, Batman: Arkham Trilogy, and Call of Duty: WWII. He blends hands-on sound creation—field recording, foley, procedural synthesis—and technical implementation in Wwise, FMOD, and Unreal to build modular, real-time soundscapes that scale across production pipelines. As a lead audio developer he’s reduced audio production time by hundreds of hours through tooling, REAPER workflows, and MetaSounds, and he’s shipped mobile audio that helped a title reach Android’s Top 100 New Paid Apps. Beyond games, Mike has edited high-profile audio documentaries and podcasts, contributing to an Audible original that sustained a 4.8/5 rating across thousands of reviews. A NYU Music Technology master’s grad and perpetual tinkerer, he also creates educational content on procedural synthesis and has a track record of delivering polished audio under aggressive timelines.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Music, Music Technology, Master's of Music, Music Technology at New York UniversityBachelor of Science, Music Business, Bachelor of Science, Music Business at Syracuse University
Github Skills (2)
game-dev3
java3
Github contributions (5)
mikeathal/Week02bAdventure
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
mikeathal/Week02TextAdventure
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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