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Riccardo G.

Music Producer, Pianist, Music Notation, Localization, Voice Artist

Luco dei Marsi, Italy
$20 per hour
38 jobs
$5K+ total earnings

I'm a music producer and musician with a sharp relative ear and a very disciplined workflow. I handle everything from creative production in FL Studio to professional notation in Dorico, covering transcription, sound design, and complex project management. Whether you need to clean up a messy session, generate scores ready for performance, or build an original track from scratch, I work with speed and adaptability. As a pianist and guitarist with years of experience, I bring practical musicality to every project. My background includes time as an editorial assistant coordinating medical podcast interviews, which taught me a lot about organization, but music is my natural element. I also work as a video editor with a focus on how sound and image move together. Currently, I am studying psychology, which fuels my interest in emotional storytelling. My goal is to take your idea and make it sound exactly as clear as you envisioned.

Nikita B.

Technical Sound Designer for Unity Games | Wwise / FMOD / C#

Milan, Italy
$30 per hour
8 jobs
$1K+ total earnings

Your game is fun to play - now let's make it satisfying to hear. I help game developers create immersive game audio experiences through professional sound design, sound effects (SFX), and seamless audio implementation, so every interaction feels polished and rewarding. Whether you're replacing placeholder sounds, adding the finishing touches before launch, or need a complete audio solution, I can handle everything from custom sound design and music integration to technical audio implementation in Unity, Unreal Engine, Wwise, and FMOD. I focus on creating audio that enhances the player's experience - from impactful gameplay feedback and atmospheric environments to dynamic music systems and immersive soundscapes. Every sound should serve a purpose: making actions feel responsive, building immersion, and helping your world come alive. With experience as a game Sound Designer and Technical Sound Designer, I can support the full audio pipeline - creating original SFX, UI sounds, ambience, cinematic audio, and interactive audio systems, then integrating everything directly into your project. My goal is simple: to help your game deliver a more immersive and satisfying experience through sound. 🎮 WHAT I DO ▶ Game-ready sound design (SFX, UI, ambiences, characters) ▶ Audio implementation in Unity using Wwise or FMOD ▶ Interactive & adaptive audio systems (RTPCs, states, switches) ▶ Performance & memory optimization for mobile and PC ▶ Debugging, profiling, and documentation ▶ Clear communication with dev teams and producers ✅ HOW I WORK I work with clear milestones, regular check-ins, and transparent communication. Whether you need full audio integration or help fixing an existing setup, my goal is to make audio stable, scalable, and easy to maintain for your team. 🎧 Creative Focus I specialize in atmospheric and immersive sound design, with a strong focus on tension, spatial depth, and emotional impact. Some of my favorite games, audio-wise, are: Half-Life 2, The Last of Us, Inside, Ori and the Blind Forest, It Takes Two, and The Stanley Parable - projects where sound design supports storytelling, mechanics, and player psychology rather than existing as decoration. From a musical perspective, my background in electronic and hybrid composition informs my approach to interactive audio systems, layering, transitions, and adaptive structures rather than standalone tracks.

Luca S.

Sound Designer - Video Editor

Carugate, Italy
$10 per hour
32 jobs
$4K+ total earnings

Hi! i'm a sound designer/engineer and video editor from Milan whit a degree in sound design from Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), Audio professional with 4 years of experience in recording, editing, mixing, mastering, sound design, composing, dialogue repair, and background noise removal. Video Editor with 1 year of experience in video editing, color grading, motion graphics, visual effects, multi-camera editing, audio synchronization, and content optimization for social media and digital platforms. Video editing: 📽️Cutting and splicing video clips 🤖AI Clips 🍿UCG Videos 💫Motion Graphics Audio editing: ✂ Cutting and splicing audio clips 🎧 Audio normalization & LUFS loudness (YouTube, Spotify, ACX, ATSC A85) 🎛 Transitions (fade ins, fade outs, crossfades, special effects) Audio repair: 🚑 Background noise removal 🗣 Dialogue repair (de-clicking, de-clipping, distortion removal, spectral recovery, EQ) 💥 Removing unwanted noise or distortion Audio mixing: 📽 Audio mixing of dialogue, sound effects, and music for Video Post Sound Design: ⚡ Sound effects (reverb, delay, chorus, etc.) 🍃 Ambiences, foley & custom sound effects 🎞 Audio storytelling Audio mastering: 🎬 Audio mastering for film, music & online content 🎧 Spotify mastering 🗣 Dialogue mastering (EQ, filters, dynamics, denoising, dereverb, de-essing, loudness optimization) Music: 🎶 Audio logo design 🎹 Custom musical jingle ✂ Podcast editing Games: 🎮 Game dialogue & sound effects editing and optimization 💾 Audio libraries I work with Logic Pro X, Pro Tools and Davinci Resolve.

Antongiulio G.

Music Composer and Sound Designer

Rome, Italy
$22 per hour
16 jobs
$1K+ total earnings

Hello! My name is Antongiulio, and I am a graduate Music composer and Sound Designer with a strong passion for Sound Design. I have 10 years of experience in audio, from sound effects and music to audio recording and editing. I will make sure you receive the highest quality sound effects or music.

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