🎧 Cinematic Soundscape editor for audio series

I’m producing a series of immersive Adventure audio series — 30–40 minute documentary-style soundscapes that accompany illustrated artefacts.


Each episode blends:
• My narration (already recorded)
• Fully built environmental soundscapes
• Custom-crafted SFX layers
• Minimal, atmospheric music

Your role is to take:
• My narration
• My section-by-section sound brief
…and create the full sound world from scratch.

This means:
• You must provide OR design all ambiences, environmental beds, SFX layers, and atmospheric music cues needed for the episode.

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What I Will Provide

🎙 1. Narration Audio
• Clean VO (30–40 minutes)
• Marked sections
• Pacing and emotional notes

🎧 2. Detailed Soundscape Instructions

For every segment:
• Required ambience (forest, storm, delta, savannah, shoreline, camp, etc.)
• SFX elements (wind, animals, footsteps, paddle strokes, insects, weather)
• Emotional tone
• Intensity arc
• Scene transitions

You will translate this into a living, breathing, layered sonic environment.

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🎛 2. Full Soundscape Construction

You will:
• Layer, blend, and spatially position all sounds
• Build immersive scene transitions
• Make each location feel alive but not busy
• Follow my detailed brief, adjusting creatively where needed

🎼 3. Voice Mixing, Music Integration, & Mastering
• Clean and warm narration
• Balance speech with ambience
• Light atmospheric music (no dramatic stingers)
• Master at -16 LUFS, distribution safe
• Deliver WAV + MP3 + licensing summary

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Desired Style References

Please review these before applying:

Energy & pacing:
• BBC Earth
• National Geographic expedition narration
• Slow cinema ethos
• Tim Kellner ambient tone
• Kraig Adams quiet atmosphere

Not acceptable:
• Overproduced Hollywood trailer sound
• Loud, synthetic, fast-paced SFX
• Stock “YouTube whooshes”
• Repetitive loops without depth

The sound must feel real, textured, grounded, cinematic.

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Ideal Candidate

You should be comfortable with:
• Nature/wildlife sound design
• Documentary-style ambience building
• Immersive storytelling
• Ambient/ASMR long-form mixes
• Foley + environmental recreation
• Creating cohesive audio worlds from scratch

Tools you might use:
• Pro Tools
• Reaper
• Logic Pro
• Adobe Audition
• Ableton for creative layering

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Project Timeline & Ongoing Work

This job is for one full 30–40 minute episode, but I’m building an ongoing series:
• 1 new episode every 4–6 weeks
• Each based around a new illustrated adventure map
• Long-term collaboration for the right creative partner

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How to Apply

Please include:
1. Portfolio samples showing environmental or cinematic sound design
2. Confirmation that you can create or provide all soundscapes, SFX, and music legally
3. Your approach to building immersive audio worlds
4. Your per-episode rate (for 30–40 minutes)
5. Tools used + your workflow

Must start all applications with word SFX

• What YOU Must Provide (Mandatory)
• 🔊 1. Soundscapes You Create or Supply Yourself
• You must either:
• A) Have your own fully licensed SFX + music libraries
• (Boom Library, Soundly, BBC SFX, SoundMorph, etc.)
• OR
• B) Create the soundscapes yourself from raw design, foley, or field recordings.
• This includes:
• Ambient beds (wind, water, night, forest, rivers, desert, storms, etc.)
• Animal calls
• Weather layers
• Foley (stones, boots, pack movement, paddling, fabric, etc.)
• Transitional design (rumble, tonal rises, shifting atmospheres)
• Subtle musical cues (pads, drones, light motifs)
• You must guarantee all audio elements are:
• Fully licensed for commercial usage
• Safe for YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and distribution
• Non-copyright-strike materials