With so many live events to watch, we understand that it was nearly impossible to catch them all.
So, as promised, we have made the recordings of each live event available, for free, on Airwiggles. Below, you will find a comprehensive list of recordings from all 35 live events, 7 interviews, and 9 AMAs all neatly categorised for easy viewing. Enjoy!
Bonus: After you check out the vault, be sure to scroll to the bottom of this post for some more AirCon goodness: some statistics from AirCon's inaugural year, the incredible individuals who helped make it possible, and get a complimentary sample library by participating in a brief survey.
Quick navigation – click to jump straight to your chosen section:
Game Audio
- Confessions of an Audio “Professional” (Ross Stack)
- Live Q&A with Juan Pablo Uribe
- AMA: Disasterpeace
- AMA: Joonas Turner
- How Game Audio Skills Pay the Bills Outside of the Gaming Industry (Ben Gallagher)
- AMA: Mark Winter
- Shadows of Doubt: Atmosphere and Immersion in a Neo Noir Dystopia (Nick Dymond)
- AMA: Barney Pratt
- AMA: Nathan Moody
- Live Q&A with Mark Mangini
- Interview with Paula Fairfield
- Interview with Craig Henighan
- Linear Workflows in Post Production (Tyler Gillis)
- Interview with Bonnie Wild
- Interview with James Mather
- Sound Design in Audiobooks: An Immersive Challenge (Lewis Ball)
- Essence of Sound Design for IPs and Brands (Prashant Mishra)
- Interview with Karen Baker Landers
- Interview with Johnnie Burn
- From Bleeps and Bloops to Bits and Bytes: Advice for Self-Teaching (Audio) Programming (Karl Davis)
- What Is Technical Audio Design? How Do I Get Into It? (Chirag Machhar)
- AMA: Katie Tarrant
- Immersive Audio Is More Than 3D Music (Martin Rieger)
- FMOD Project Setup (Sergio Ronchetti)
- Field and Foley Recording for Game Audio (Ben Reichstein, Arron Amo-Travers)
- Panel: Foley in Films and Games (Paolo Pavesi, Zoe Freed)
- AMA: George Vlad
- Sandbox Sound Design in Bitwig (Jamie Molloy)
- Introduction to Classical Music Recording (Katharina Bär)
- Panel: Introduction to Sound Libraries (Katharina Bär, Aidan Hall)
- Live Q&A with Adele Cutting
- Interview with Becky Sullivan
- AMA: Jane Perry
- Collaborating with Professionals (Tomas Key, Antonio Bustos)
- Panel: Junior Sound Designers (Jack O’Callaghan, Lewis Ball, Jamie Lee)
- The 3 Step Guide to Getting Into Game Audio (Lewis Thompson)
- Live Q&A with David Fairfield
- Audio Quick Design Initiative: What I Learn From It and Tips On How To Start Your Own (Giovane Webster)
- Introduction to Networking Events (Alyx Jones, Aaron Richards, Steve Simpson)
- Compression!? (Aidan Hall)
- Resonant Reviewing: The Craft of Giving and Receiving Meaningful Feedback in Game Audio (Ashton Mills)
- How Being A Generalist Can Help You Become A Better Specialist (Jon Kelliher)
- Community = Opportunity: How We Can Benefit Together (Greg Lester)
- Write Better Creative Briefs (Jade Leamcharaskul)
- Creative Accounting: Audio Services Pricing (Nathan Moody)
- Freelancing Safeguards (Sergio Ronchetti)
- Panel: Introduction to Freelancing (Jake Gaule, Kevin Davey)
- Panel: A Shell In The Pit (Em Halberstadt, Rachel Sim, Jamie Lee)
- AMA: Soundcuts
- Roundtable Teaching in Game Audio (Greg Lester, Sergio Ronchetti, Noa Beazley)
- Panel: Introduction to Audio Mentorships (Presley Hynes, Jon Kelliher)
We greatly value your feedback on AirCon and the live events we hosted. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts by filling out the survey below. Your input will help us make AirCon even better in 2024!
By completing the survey, you will also get a free copy of Lewis Thompson’s sample library SALT: a collection of 300+ light, sprinkly, sparkly salt samples you can use to season your sound design. It’s not much, but hopefully you’ll get some use out of it.
Thank you for taking the time to participate.
When we initially came up with the idea for AirCon, we never would have guessed how big it would become. The level of involvement from both participants and attendees exceeded our wildest expectations! Here are some standout statistics from AirCon 23 that we loved:
- Over 50 hours of live events! We had 35 individual live events, resulting in a wealth of knowledge sharing equivalent to more than two full days!
- A remarkable total of 77 industry professionals generously volunteered their time to contribute to AirCon through live events, AMAs, and interviews. A huge thank you to everyone involved!
- We were thrilled to welcome 1380 attendees to Airwiggles during AirCon! A huge thanks to everyone in the community who tuned in!
- Notably, 604 of these attendees were new users who joined us this month! A warm welcome to all of our new Airwiggling friends!
- On average, our live events had an audience attendance of 78! That would be a pretty packed room in real life!
- The busiest live event goes to “Field and Foley Recording for Game Audio” presented by Ben Reichstein and Arron Amo-Travers, which had 155 members in the live audience!
- 3: That’s the total hours of sleep Greg and Lewis got over the 2 week conference. It was worth it! ;)
We loved running AirCon on Airwiggles this year! Everyone has been saying it must have been a lot of work to put together – and it was – but we can’t overstate enough that without the help from so many amazing people, AirCon would have been pretty rubbish. As always, the audio community helped make AirCon as fun and interesting as it was, and I wanted to give a huge shout out to everyone who made it possible:
First off, I’d like to give a huge thanks to our ‘Airwiggles Senate’ as we like to call them: who help Greg and I with decisions, planning, and testing things behind the scenes:
Aaron Richards, Aidan Hall, Asbjoern Andersen, Daniel Richer, Heli Linnus, Jack O’Callaghan, Jamie Lee, Jon Kelliher, Katharina Bär, Lewis Ball, Sergio Ronchetti
Next, a huge thanks to our AirCon chat moderation team, who helped us ensure that all live events ran smoothly!
Aaron Richards, Heli Linnus, Jamie Lee, Jon Kelliher, Lewis Ball, Steve Simpson, Tomas Castillo
Now, a very special thanks to the following people for conducting some of our live events and interviews!
Jennifer Walden, Lewis Ball, Tomas Castillo
Next up, a big thanks to these wonderful Airwiggles users who kindly contributed to a behind-the-scenes SFX library as a courtesy gift for all of our speakers!
Aaron Richards, Aidan Hall, Andrew Weigh, Heli Linnus, Joe Wilson, Jon Kelliher, Lewis Ball, Noah Campodonico, Pablo Velasco
A big thanks to the team over at A Sound Effect for helping us shape AirCon into such an awesome event!
Asbjoern Andersen, Jennifer Walden
Now, a huge huge huge thanks to everyone who volunteered their time to give us all a wonderful AirCon live event, for free!
Aaron Richards, Adele Cutting, Aidan Hall, Alyx Jones, Antonio Bustos, Arron Amo-Travers, Ashton Mills, Ben Gallagher, Ben Reichstein, Chirag Machhar, David Fairfield, Em Halberstadt, Giovane Webster, Jack O’Callaghan, Jade Leamcharaskul, Jake Gaule, Jamie Lee, Jamie Molloy, Jon Kelliher, Juan Pablo Uribe, Karl Davis, Katharina Bär, Kevin Davey, Lewis Ball, Mark Mangini, Martin Rieger, Nathan Moody, Nick Dymond, Noa Beasley, Paolo Pavesi, Prashant Mishra, Presley Hynes, Rachel Sim, Ross Stack, Sergio Ronchetti, Steve Simpson, Tomas Castillo, Tyler Gillis, Zoe Freed
And a special thanks to our surprise guests who we published a series of pre-recorded interviews with!
Becky Sullivan, Bonnie Wild, Craig Henighan, James Mather, Johnnie Burn, Karen Baker Landers, Paula Fairfield
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This volume includes 255 high-quality sound effects, organized into 27 distinct spell types, each with multiple variations (3 to 17) to ensure no spell sounds the same, even when reused across your project.
Each spell type is carefully named and sorted into individual folders, giving you intuitive navigation and maximum flexibility for magical scenes, game effects, or cinematic transitions.
Recorded, edited, and mastered in 192 kHz / 24-bit, these sounds deliver exceptional clarity and full adaptability for pitching, layering, or creative processing.
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Forest and Mountains features nature and wildlife sounds from California, Washington, and Oregon. Included are a number of bird recordings and forest ambiences, along with some insects, winds, rivers, and rain. Â
These were recorded over the past three years in various forests, foothills, and mountain environments.  A lot of these took place in or near Southern California’s Angeles Forest and San Gabriel Mountains, an area that spans 1200 Square Miles and varies vastly in terrain.
Also included are some sounds from Northern California, along with recordings from the Pacific Northwest.
The recording techniques for this varied as sometimes I went with the recorders running unattended to capture night, dawn and early morning. Other times I’d record while being close by.
Working as a Sound Effects Editor I’ve curated this collection with Editors in mind. Background Ambiences and Spotted FX can really bring a location to life and give it so much story and character and that was a lot of the inspiration behind putting this all together.Â
The Locations
California (61 Files) – This is where a majority of the sounds from this library were recorded and specifically Southern California. Variety of areas and different environments, mostly around Angeles Forest, from Lower Elevation Foothills to more rugged mid-elevation Mountain Canyons and then much Higher Elevation and more remote terrain. Also included are a few recordings from the Eastern Sierras and Northern California.
Washington (19 Files) – Southern WA in Gifford Pinchot Forest and various Northwest Forest areas near Puget Sound.
Oregon (16 Files) – Lakeside Recordings in forest and marsh at Klamath Lake in SE Oregon.Â
The BirdsÂ
Prominent / Specific Birds (36) (Closer Mic Perspective and more detailed) (* denotes multiple versions)
Acorn Woodpecker, Barred Owl, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Towhee, *Canadian Geese, *Fox Sparrow, *Great Horned Owl, *House Wren, Northern Flicker, Oak Titmouse, Pacific Wren, Pileated Woodpecker, *Raven, Robin, *Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Swainson’s Thrush
Other Birds Featured (17) (Mixed together from various perspectives, calm to busy depending on time of day, and then closer to more medium and distant sounds.)
Acorn Woodpecker, American Coot, California Quail, California Towhee, Cassin’s Finch, Fox Sparrow, Great Horned Owl, Hose Wren, Mallard, Mountain Chickadee, Northern Flicker, Nuttall’s Woodpecker, Oak Titmouse, Pied-billed Grebe, Common Poorwill, Raven, Red-tailed Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Western Tanager, Western Wood-Pewee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Wilson’s Warbler, Wrentit, Yellow-throated Blackbird, Zone-tailed Hawk
General Forest (9) – A mix of some wildlife (Chipmunk, Deer, Bullfrogs), and more general lighter forest ambiences.
Insects (7) – Crickets from various perspectives and different forests along with some Grasshoppers.
Rain (4) Light to heavier in a canyon with dense vegetation, some with distant birds.
Rivers (5) Smaller detailed creeks to faster moving rivers.
Wind (11)Â A mix of calm to heavier with gusts, vegetation, and tree creaks.Metadata
Detailed with descriptions and markers and photos to easily navigate and allow for options when searching. UCS was used to categorize and various bird species are identified. I’ve also labeled the metadata with what I consider Lower Elevation (up to 1500 feet), Middle Elevation (2000-5000 feet), and Higher Elevation (above 5000 feet).  Included are the season of the year which was mostly Spring and Summer. Using Open-Tier in Soundminer you can use these to help get a bit more specific to particular environments.The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-3 & 6 | Zoom F3 & 6 | Sony PCM-D100
Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8020 | Sennheiser MKH 8040 |
Sennheiser MKH 30 | Clippy EM 272
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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries General UI Sounds Play Track 136 sounds included $10Hello Creators!
Here’s my new pack: “General UI Sounds“
I wanted to create a sound pack to cover different situations in an user interface.
I hope you enjoy implementing this sounds in your project!Making-Off
All this sounds were originally recorded with a Zoom H6 (cardiod microphone), and were processed in Logic Pro X, mainly editing the recorded material but also I used the Logix Pro X sampler.
Some considerations
1. Keep in mind this sounds can be used in a variety of situations, I put a name to the SFX but this doesn’t mean it can’t be used in other contexts.
2. The sounds are in 44.1Khz/16 bit format. I have the original files at 96khz/24bit also, if you need this format, please contact me.
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A big thanks to everyone who volunteered their time to answer questions from the Airwiggles community with an AMA!
Barney Pratt, Disasterpeace, George Vlad, Jane Perry, Joonas Turner, Katie Tarrant, Mark Winter, Nathan Moody, Soundcuts
And a warm thank you to everyone who took the time to answer our quickfire interview questions!
Alexandra Fehrman, Alice Boyd, Alyx Jones, Austin Wintory, Christa Giammattei, Colugo, Eli Rainsberry, Fraser Strachan, Gina Zdanowicz, Jade Dickey, Kenny Young, Matthew Marteinsson, Nathan Moody, Rob Bridgett, Russell Shaw, Sam Hughes, Tee Lopes, Tim Nielsen, Waterflame
And, of course, a huge thanks to YOU! Thank you so much for being a part of the amazing Airwiggles and AirCon community. Thank you for attending talks, making posts, writing comments, sharing knowledge, and supporting each other! We’re constantly blown away by the amazing community here on Airwiggles and we’re looking forward to hanging out online with you all for another year!
Thank you all again so much for tuning into Airwiggles Audio Conference! We’re hoping to be back next year with even more free live events and resources to share, but until then, we’ve got all kinds of fun things planned on Airwiggles for the audio community over the year. Be sure to hang around so you don’t miss anything!
Wishing you the best audio adventures,
— Lewis and Greg
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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Magic – Alchemy Play Track 4213 sounds included
From: $135From: $108SONIC SPELLS WITH REAL PERSONALITY MAGIC – ALCHEMY is a professional sound effects library built from real chemical reactions and elemental forces. It delivers short, character-rich magic sound effects perfect for spellcasting, magical UI design, and fantasy storytelling. Designed to sit cleanly in a mix and shimmer with personality, these spell sounds are ideal for games, trailers, audio dramas and more. Real reactions, recorded with obsessive detail.
Magic Sounds from Real Chemical ReactionsNo digital fakery here. Every sound in MAGIC – ALCHEMY began as a live experiment — alcohol burning in jars, butane growling through pipes, fuses igniting, water swirling in glass. These are true-to-life textures, captured in a lab-grade recording setup. The result? Magical sound with depth, realism, and spark..
Short, Sharp, and Ready to UseThese are not long, cinematic flourishes. This library is about immediacy — short, dry, punchy magic effects that are easy to slot into your project. Ideal for game asset design, magical feedback sounds, and trailer moments where clarity counts.
Three Spell Flavours: Holy, Cursed, NeutralNeed a healing chime, a cursed hex, or something more ambiguous? The Designed section is grouped into Holy, Cursed, and Neutral categories — giving you emotional options that match your scene’s intent, whether you’re crafting a fantasy RPG or a subtle magical interaction.
Built for Professionals, Whatever You CreateWhether you’re layering magic for a fantasy film, adding interactive audio to a mobile game, or creating rich textures for audiobooks or theatre, MAGIC – ALCHEMY fits right in. It’s mix-ready, flexible, and full of sonic character.
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Forest and Mountains features nature and wildlife sounds from California, Washington, and Oregon. Included are a number of bird recordings and forest ambiences, along with some insects, winds, rivers, and rain. Â
These were recorded over the past three years in various forests, foothills, and mountain environments.  A lot of these took place in or near Southern California’s Angeles Forest and San Gabriel Mountains, an area that spans 1200 Square Miles and varies vastly in terrain.
Also included are some sounds from Northern California, along with recordings from the Pacific Northwest.
The recording techniques for this varied as sometimes I went with the recorders running unattended to capture night, dawn and early morning. Other times I’d record while being close by.
Working as a Sound Effects Editor I’ve curated this collection with Editors in mind. Background Ambiences and Spotted FX can really bring a location to life and give it so much story and character and that was a lot of the inspiration behind putting this all together.Â
The Locations
California (61 Files) – This is where a majority of the sounds from this library were recorded and specifically Southern California. Variety of areas and different environments, mostly around Angeles Forest, from Lower Elevation Foothills to more rugged mid-elevation Mountain Canyons and then much Higher Elevation and more remote terrain. Also included are a few recordings from the Eastern Sierras and Northern California.
Washington (19 Files) – Southern WA in Gifford Pinchot Forest and various Northwest Forest areas near Puget Sound.
Oregon (16 Files) – Lakeside Recordings in forest and marsh at Klamath Lake in SE Oregon.Â
The BirdsÂ
Prominent / Specific Birds (36) (Closer Mic Perspective and more detailed) (* denotes multiple versions)
Acorn Woodpecker, Barred Owl, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Towhee, *Canadian Geese, *Fox Sparrow, *Great Horned Owl, *House Wren, Northern Flicker, Oak Titmouse, Pacific Wren, Pileated Woodpecker, *Raven, Robin, *Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Swainson’s Thrush
Other Birds Featured (17) (Mixed together from various perspectives, calm to busy depending on time of day, and then closer to more medium and distant sounds.)
Acorn Woodpecker, American Coot, California Quail, California Towhee, Cassin’s Finch, Fox Sparrow, Great Horned Owl, Hose Wren, Mallard, Mountain Chickadee, Northern Flicker, Nuttall’s Woodpecker, Oak Titmouse, Pied-billed Grebe, Common Poorwill, Raven, Red-tailed Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Western Tanager, Western Wood-Pewee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Wilson’s Warbler, Wrentit, Yellow-throated Blackbird, Zone-tailed Hawk
General Forest (9) – A mix of some wildlife (Chipmunk, Deer, Bullfrogs), and more general lighter forest ambiences.
Insects (7) – Crickets from various perspectives and different forests along with some Grasshoppers.
Rain (4) Light to heavier in a canyon with dense vegetation, some with distant birds.
Rivers (5) Smaller detailed creeks to faster moving rivers.
Wind (11)Â A mix of calm to heavier with gusts, vegetation, and tree creaks.Metadata
Detailed with descriptions and markers and photos to easily navigate and allow for options when searching. UCS was used to categorize and various bird species are identified. I’ve also labeled the metadata with what I consider Lower Elevation (up to 1500 feet), Middle Elevation (2000-5000 feet), and Higher Elevation (above 5000 feet).  Included are the season of the year which was mostly Spring and Summer. Using Open-Tier in Soundminer you can use these to help get a bit more specific to particular environments.The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-3 & 6 | Zoom F3 & 6 | Sony PCM-D100
Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8020 | Sennheiser MKH 8040 |
Sennheiser MKH 30 | Clippy EM 272
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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries General UI Sounds Play Track 136 sounds included $10
Hello Creators!
Here’s my new pack: “General UI Sounds“
I wanted to create a sound pack to cover different situations in an user interface.
I hope you enjoy implementing this sounds in your project!Making-Off
All this sounds were originally recorded with a Zoom H6 (cardiod microphone), and were processed in Logic Pro X, mainly editing the recorded material but also I used the Logix Pro X sampler.
Some considerations
1. Keep in mind this sounds can be used in a variety of situations, I put a name to the SFX but this doesn’t mean it can’t be used in other contexts.
2. The sounds are in 44.1Khz/16 bit format. I have the original files at 96khz/24bit also, if you need this format, please contact me.
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