 Hello everyone, this is Marina, and welcome to For the Minions Episode 40. And a special thank you to Somnietic for that beautiful introduction by Marina. This is, of course, For the Minions. I am your host, TheMangus, but joining me, as always, is the ever so adorable Mandy Mal. Sup, bitch? Aw, shucks. Nothing much. I'm, you know me, I'm always doing good and I'm always excited. And we have a really good show this week, and we have another special returning guest host, the audio engineer, the newly promoted audio engineer for Ethereal. Mr. TricolourStar, how are you? I am a great, always good to be back. So many familiar faces. I see two of them. Yes. You can see some familiar names though in the comments. Oh, yes. Yeah, thank you so much for joining us once again. We brought Tricolour in because he requested it, and I was like, of course, not going to turn Tricolour down, especially with all these amazing ethereal voice lines that have been getting uploaded. How is it to see the fruits of your work being enjoyed by others now? It's been a long time coming. It is. Oh my God, it is transcendental. It always makes me happy when people pick up on things that I purposely like slipped in there. Like people got the avatar reference for Leah very early on and I'm like, that's, this is why I love you guys. That's awesome. So it's always good to be here and always good to expose my work to the community. It's always fun to expose yourself. So just to refresh everybody, what was your experience with Paragon? Since most of our fans are coming to us from Paragon? Unfortunately, I only got to play a little bit of it before the servers got taken down, but in that short time, I was a Muriel and Aurora main because I have no self-control and I love the game a lot. The sound design was really good. I was so happy when they announced that the free assets would be on the Unity Marketplace. Of course, so I downloaded those and immediately got lost. So yeah, but I like the game a lot and I'm really happy that there's so many people trying to make like successors or remakes of it because it was a good game and Fortnite took it away from us. So they must pay. Damn you, Fortnite. So let's move on now. Let's go into the news and updates. We don't have anything for for Metabuff or Visionary, but we will be talking about Ethereum mainly that they've got more voice lines up. We didn't get to talk about it last time because they they uploaded the Malaya who did they upload Malaya and Malware after we had recorded for the last for the minions. I did include them in the show, but we hadn't heard them yet. And then Leia was the or Leia Leia. How do you say that tricolor Leia or Leia Leia was the last one that they uploaded. So these are all amazing and really cool and we have the perfect guest to talk about them. So Leia is the one that got uploaded the closest. Do you have a what what what went into her her voice to make her sound like the like the Jungle Queen? So the actress I've worked with is Latin and so she can do a South American accent pretty easily. Of course, you have to tell her that's what you want because typically she'll record with like a very very modern very elegant voice. So I was like I need this to be like Amazon Queen like warrior princess. I need I needed to be thick. So something that I was disappointed about in the voice line video is that the music is is so loud like whenever Leia speaks, she has rain forest sounds in her voice. Oh, really? So like as she speaks, you can hear rain and bird songs and trees like creaking as she speaks. Oh, that's amazing. The music is too loud so you can't really hear it. Yeah, so I'm hoping that once she actually comes out or the full video comes out for the website, you'll be able to hear it without the music because like as she gets louder, the birdsong gets louder. So when she alts, she'll like say the line, you'll hear like the birdsong behind it. That is amazing. That's a great idea to include that into her voice line to bring the jungle out. That's that's great. Mandy, did you get a chance to listen to the lines? I did. They were really cool and I was thinking because I know it was it was mentioned while we were doing the interview that we have later that too that the girl who does Marina was actually originally going to do Leia, correct? Yes. And then the girl who was doing Leia was originally going to do and I think that switch was such a good idea now that I've heard it was so amazing. But as you were talking about having those kind of ambience sounds going along with her voice, I didn't notice them in the video. I think because like you said with the music, but that's going to really help with immersion. I think and that was something that I really enjoyed about Paragon even though Paragon didn't have voice lines there was still somehow they pulled off just amazing immersion and I think that's really going to help that kind of ambient noise that goes along with with certain characters and you have just you're so talented and just really blown away by the work that that you guys have put into these voice lines. Thank you. And we've heard your work on the voice lines. We haven't heard any of the sound effects that you're going to be doing now though. I'm kind of interested to hear some of that. I'm sure that'll be a little down the line, but if you put half as much work into those as you did these voice lines, I'm sure they will be amazing. So and I think that's really the immersive part of Paragon is the sounds really matched up when they needed to I think I mentioned like sometimes you don't want things to match up exactly like you don't want to hear a squelching bloody rear ripping tearing noise when thing mal hit you with a spear like that would just be very off putting you want it but like the clang that you heard. I think that was like one point. Mm hmm. I don't know where I was going with that on the on the topic of sound effects. We actually revealed two of the sound effects in the fan discord one from malware and one from Alaya, but it was secret. It was it's not in the announcement really see had to dig for it bypass. I usually catch everything. Yeah, I was like, why is it markets on top of this? You must have been busy. And that's the only explanation that you were busy. Yeah, I've been very busy lately. That's why I haven't been able to do as much content creation as I would like. Speaking of I know I said I was going to do a video on the kind of impromptu ethereal community corner. I'm still going to do that. I just need to find that time. But they're another one happened another one happened Monday after they revoiced the release the Leah voice lines just I think it was 35 people in the voice chat and then several people in the discord. I was only able to be there for a little bit because I was very tired and had to go to sleep also. I've discovered why it's so hard not to leak things because I know a lot of stuff about the Lord that I shouldn't know. And like when people say certain things like I don't like how this is this way. I think it should look this way and I know why it does. It's so hard not to like just explain it to them so they understand. So I had to kind of get out of it. I'm leaking stuff all the time. That's why I yeah that's why I love to I was like because I said something and oh man. I think it was on an oxus is like hey they don't know about that yet and I was like. I thought it's harder not to leak that I thought but it's a flex tape. Yeah guys join their discord if you're interested in ethereal join their discord and just keep an eye out and they they haven't really set a time for these or or a schedule like I said last time it was I kind of started it on accident by just hanging out in their voice chat and harassing Owen but yeah definitely get in there. They'll answer anything and if you're too shy to talk you know or more likely there's just way too many people talking at once you can type out your question and it will get eventually address just make sure you you bring it to their attention. So that's very cool stuff and they were also playing games. I think they played a custom game of League of Legends and try color it out on it. I know I was there. I was there. It was bad. Yeah. You know what this is not a League of Legends podcast. It'll take me to a dark place very dark place. Mandini comments about the community corners that they've been having a column of community corners. I don't know what they want to call them. Yeah I haven't been able to get in on one. I know you let me know about the last one but I've actually been I have a old back injury that is a rear and it's ugly head. So I've been like bedridden. I'm just like in bed all the time. This is the first time I've been out of bed in like three days. So I had I missed out on that unfortunately. That's weird because I'm the ones usually carrying you. I would think I would be the one. You're cute. You're cute. Do you see do you see what I said? Let's move on from a theory or two. Omega Studios they were just talking about how difficult the Dominion AI is. We mentioned last time that you know they've got the minions in there and they've been testing them out a little bit but like the siege minions weren't attacking and it was just a it was just a big cluster fuck in the middle but they were just talking about you know there's a lot of environmental like the minions have to interact with so many parts of the environment and so many things in the game you know towers and heroes and like a player isn't controlling that that has to all be controlled by AI so that's going to be extremely difficult for them to implement but they are going to be doing all that testing this week that is not the last thing that they have to do though they have to re-implement like the mini map and the scoreboard and you know some other stuff as well I'm not sure about their items if they have their actives working yet or not but they still have a ways to go before their their alpha is once again made public but they're on the right track they're heading there and it's good to see Mandy anything to say about pre-assessor I mean that makes a ton of sense you know what you were saying about how the minions interact and how their AI interacts with so much more in the game than people probably realize so it makes a ton of sense that that's going to take a lot of tedious work and I would imagine a lot of troubleshooting because that's something you you know they might come up with some crazy bug that you don't know about until you really get in a few games so I think Smokey is so he's so he just has a good intuition about when to fine-tune things and when to just put it out and let the community get their hands on it and and you know fiddle with it so I'm I'm looking forward to it as always looking forward to pre-assessor always try call or anything to say about pre-assessor seems like undying you know made her or kind of like like sister producers now like they're they're doing very different games but they seem to seem to enjoy each other's company I see a I see Smokey pop up in the discord a lot and I'm like why but it's like I look familiar and then I realize that he's the he's the director of pre-assessor and I was like oh on the topic of like minion programming it it makes a lot of sense because minions have it depends on if on how you're programming the minions to be like separate objects or if they're going to follow each other and following each other is like its own bag of worms bag of worms can of worms come in all sorts they have to perform lots of small checks like sometimes hundreds a second just to make sure they're not colliding with things and they're on the right track and if they check if they deviate from a check it become that deviations carried over to the next check and then that one's carried over the next check and soon they're not in lane anymore they're in the jungle fighting Baron so like minions are some of the hardest things to code in the game because they had to be consistent every single time every single time they can never not be that but I've heard some good things coming out of pre-assessor you know as as always there's like there's a lot of a paragon like games coming out so we always have respect for our competitors and sister producers so hopefully they get a they get a working alpha back on back public soon so they can do some like public book testing so and that's going to be it for Omeda and made up like I said made about from visionary we got nothing for them this week so we're going to that brings over to the poll results oh my god this poll very polarizing poll this week it was Gideon versus steel Gideon won 66% the 34% even though there were far more votes for Gideon there were way more comments about how people thought steel should be the winner there was definitely definitely some some feelings hurt and some some some angers angers stoked here people people got pretty mad over this one kind of makes me wonder what's going to happen when we get to the very end and square the last two off but yeah even sylphan weighed in it was good to hear from sylphan but sylphans vote with steel he said that Gideon requires set up so execution was only based on reacting to a good initiation and waiting for the enemy to burn their counter where steals all required positioning timing awareness of everything etc. etc. I think that's a pretty good point Gideon's Gideon couldn't just jump in an all I mean he could in the later stages of the game whenever he had the the stun attached to it but even then he had to be very aware of what was going on like and as sylphan said here make make sure that the enemy is already burned their counter other way otherwise he's just going to get interrupted and is done for whereas steel didn't really need he his was he could use his ult to set up a Gideon ult and I think there's a few comments about that too like that was the perfect combo especially especially and um legacy was the Gideon and steal all combo especially if you can land the steel all after the Gideon all and everybody got piled up on top of Gideon's head and then just burned down they couldn't do anything about it but yeah that was um that was good stuff Mandy how'd you vote you vote for steel or Gideon I did vote for steel because of what you said that Gideon could be interrupted fairly easily and I saw it happen a lot so I just felt like steel was in you know in this particular competition between these two I felt like steel was a little bit more impactful on on the game so but apparently apparently a steel supporters we are few but we are vocal try colors do you have any anything to weigh in on this I didn't know the vote was happening but if I was around I would have voted for Gideon um but mostly because I was like getting it more yeah like feels cool because he's like you know a guardian and tank but Gideon's Gideon literally just throws a rocket like an asteroid at people so like you really can't his description is like something like on his like fifth birthday he witnessed the death of a star and fell in love so come on but um I could see why they would want to do steel first steel is like a basic flavor of character you need to have in the game before you add someone like Gideon in like you know you got to have your basic tank you got to have your basic mage you got to have your basic support like you got to have that kind of stuff and steel I think fits the pretty like round all around tank character but it doesn't shock me that Gideon one because Gideon's awesome so I of course cannot vote on my own poll but I would have voted for steel let's move on now to the highlight reel for this week run a low on highlights I had to had to dig into my own again I'm gonna run out soon so if you guys do have highlights and you want to see them on the show send them over to me it was two episodes back I think it was FTM 38 is when I showed you how to upload them to Google Docs so you can send me a link if you have them stored somewhere on your computer or your or your PS4 but yeah right now let's get on over to the highlights jaw roll shows us here that you don't have to have great aim make a great play I'm sure I'm going to catch hell for that one he comes in to assist his team he's using trapper now he's using trapper to lock people in place and it's also helping to save his team thing now just had no chance there because if you can't get close to Murdoch he can't deal that damage and he got rooted in place because it got shot enough times because Murdoch is of course building agility as that attack speed as well and I mean Murdoch gets wasted trying to come in and do something steel knows that he's in trouble he's going to back out however Kalinus is going to come in the buck shot misses but it's still he gets away with just a barely a sliver of health Iggy and Scorch comes in to finish off steel and they make the full team wipe I absolutely love creative car usage and that's what we're going to see right here Wraith gets knocked out by Halliser but he uses to bring it back with a static trap that static trap activated just in time to catch Halliser on the edge now they're going to duke it out dodging shots Wraith is and he takes out Halliser pop surprise surprise just in time to avoid the snipe from Murdoch and he gets away just fine Blue team has the ore prime buff and they're looking for blood Shemby push way up she's going to get taken down but they gathered up to kill Shemby and got blasted in the face with a huge chesticles from Richter Wraith popping people down before Richter can pull them they trade one Shemby for a full team wipe and a win of the video game that was a hell of a good trade I would say rest in Pepperoni's poor little Shemby now we see at the start of this fight Shemby is pushed up really far and Narbash starts his ultimate on her however she has gag order immediately silences him and now he's taking extra damage she's popping her spirit wool she's using the circle rhythm and watch as they all gather up to kill this Shemby they do get the kill on her but they're all taking damage from her AOE as well as the rest of the Blue team and then they set themselves up perfectly for the chesticles blasts three members let's Murdock just tee off and do them dirty Okay guys I hope you enjoyed the highlight real but now we're going to get into the meat and potatoes here what you've all been waiting for the interview with Somniatic the voice actress for Marina let's go ahead and roll it Okay for the minions crew we've got a tricolor set us up an interview with the voice actress for Marina her name is Somni she is amazing if you check out her YouTube channel you can see her doing everything from from just covers of various animes cartoons and games to to singing in front of a full orchestra and I think playing the flute Somni were you playing the flute I didn't hear that a little bit well it was great it was absolutely amazing but yes you guys know her best as the voice of Marina for undying games is ethereal ethereal just went above and beyond with their voice lines and most of us are used to kind of like just really flat readings of the voices with you know heavy modulation afterwards and you seem to really impart a lot of character into the character you know as they say so not no really question here I just wanted to say that and compliment you to start out with well thank you I appreciate that I work on my character acting so what you tell us a little bit about yourself just to start off with I have been voice acting for I well I started on YouTube in 2011 and I've been doing it ever since I kind of just upgraded myself through various microphones and like statuses during the years and it's just about in more advanced like used to just do stuff for fun now I do some stuff for pay and on the side of that I'm a music student majoring in voice and I'm a sophomore so I'm just kind of you know getting my way in line right on so is voice acting something you've always wanted to do or? I always I'm very conflicted because I want to be an opera singer very rare career but I also love voice acting so I'm very split like but both the careers are never one thing that you just do without doing something else so I in the future I hope to have it like divergence where I can do both of those things that sounds like a very different career path than anyone has ever taken before I guess I'm a opera singer slash voice actor you can hear me in video games you can also hear me in Turandot that's amazing ethereal and in Carnegie Hall yeah right yes yeah so have you worked on any other games? um so far I'm in one visual novel that's coming out an alpha is coming out soon called Bandcamp Boyfriend trying to think of other things I've done so far a lot of the other things are audio plays so far not too many video games but I've done some fan things like voice patterns for specific video games am I do you want me to plug you? I just think it's cool because I've known you for like three years it's awesome I work with a specific individual who makes voice packs for a certain video game made by Riot where we make voice packs that you can install into the game that add specific voices to different skins that don't have voices pertaining to the skins line well he whoever he is he sounds awesome we'll never know I did notice some ergot gameplay when you're on your YouTube channel oh on mine? yes oh my wait oh I wasn't the ergot I was the Nami oh okay I was the one who I was the one who I thought we shared a love of fat hookers so many so many is a light girl who means Jana, Nami, Morgana, Ziya and most likely now Niko wow you really brought the zoom of Niko I did so that kind of answers a question that I had for you, Somni which is if you are a gamer and enjoy playing games so it sounds like you do very much oh that's a mean thing we play together like every night I love it so that was the next question was how did you get the ethereal role but it seems like you know that you know the right people actually we weren't we were oh he was more of my director when we started if you know League of Legends they had the whole skin line with Star Guardians and I voiced Star Guardian Syndra and Jana for him and I just kind of branched out from there and I started doing more voices for him and overall every voice yeah I do a lot I do a lot of her range is insane I do many good impressions honestly crazy I can do a champion like name one so good it's like like if you give her like a time frame like like so many I need her God in three days she's like okay I'll do it in two I wouldn't do her God I would not I need to hear this I need to hear this my it was really cool I do anything but her God anything but her God so many just a cool she's a cool gal and she can she's very talented can do pretty much any female voice you need so like can hit anyone's watching this and he's a he's a female voice actress you I'll say it in the Marina voice hire me if you need a voice actress I am right here very cool very cool so full of it yes honey how like it's just your speaking voice it really is taken up so like it's natural extreme I like to think of it as my speaking voice if I was speaking to someone who wanted to hire me or if I was working at a restaurant trying to please so it's like it's like phone voice almost reach the phone call of Marina I'm not here right now but please call again soon oh my gosh now I want you to be my voicemail I will do that I have the time I will record you're having a text a text is arriving ebb and flow the text my gosh I love it I am fangirling thank you so did you read the lore for Marina prior to recording or did they just like give you like this is kind of what we need from this character sort of thing he gave me the basis of a character and more more of like their voice type and I think I kind of develop the character for myself mostly I mean we know some specific things about their lore that kind of shape their abilities and what their voice lines are in their like interactions with other characters like that's what I started with like I asked why does Marina say it's water Talos water is good and then I was told is because Talos does not like today then I'm like well the more you know so I actually recently learned all about her and her lore is very interesting I think it's very intriguing I don't know if I'm like allowed to say not yeah so I'll say that she is welcome to a new world and she's embracing it yeah that's what I was going to say I have read the lore um and the impression I get from Marina is that she's sort of young curious and adventurous yet still has that sense of purpose and duty and I think you captured that extremely well in her voice lines I just I'm amazed that you did that without having read the lore prior to that thank you I feel like I thought of her is like Ariel but if Ariel wasn't stupid Ariel is a little bit older and a little bit more mature and she was like yeah capable like she wants to know things but she isn't going to be like I'm going to leave my entire family to do that like yeah she's she's smart about what she does by the way Ursula skin for Ergot let's go Ursula skin for a run let's go live for it's what I do it's what I live but I live for so would you play Marina in the game or do you grab as a word gravitate towards like other types of myths Oh no I gravitate it's temporary because I may not be and a lot of their skills are very similar like the healing like I I I'm kind of a heal like that's my that's my thing besides the occasional me going Zaya I always like to heal people out right on she's a really good support and that's what marina she's a cleric right on and like she's a water cleric like that's just that's my thing water and clerics it's just it comes to me just right up your alley well that's awesome that you got to voice a character that you probably will play in the game that's amazing I'm so excited yeah do you get like does it sound strange to hear yourself or are you kind of used to it I'm really I always find it a little bit cool more yeah strange because I hear it from the voice pack so I do for a week of buttons where I'll just be like oh this this is kind of a cute interaction I was like oh that's me I said that and then I like talk along with it like what's one of the Niko ones from the the Wonder Woman Niko give Niko give Zaya a hug two hugs Niko give Zaya a hug many hugs like like I just speak along with it it's a really fun thing to hear yourself because you're like I did that that's me yeah absolutely so one thing I've heard about voice actors that you often like a word or a phrase that you will say to get back into character after you after you have been voicing them for a while do you have something like that for Marina no Emily I told me do not don't what Tommy was so Niko well that's my Niko that's not Marina no no for Marina oh okay sorry well to get into Marina I literally just say her name like you know when you choose a myth you just say they're like it says their name like they announce themselves that kind of just gets me into itself just be like me Sonny Sonny Marina Oh I'm here very cool very cool so I have go ahead and try tons of takes of her as I think I'm lagging behind a bit but I have like tons of takes of her slipping out of her Niko voice and then getting back into it by doing a Tommy was so impression you know oh hi Mark like and it's the most jarring thing it is of all people hit her it's not true it's I did not hit her I did not oh hi Mark oh my gosh oh that's crazy love it they'll never made a video of that you've never done a video with my voice over never let anyone hear that I will never ever ever ever just did yes the it's too there's it's all quiet I'm just working on Niko and I you know get done with the lines all of a sudden I hear with all the effects all the echoes and everything oh hi Mark I put myself I was so I'm sorry you enjoyed it though I know you secretly enjoyed it no okay I guess you didn't so we've established that you kind of do gravitate towards Claire class and Marina and that have you looked at any of the other myths from material and thought that you would you would like to voice them as well or anything like that there am I allowed to say about my past voicing for theory yeah yeah yeah yeah so in the past originally I was supposed to be voicing for Leah Leah and actually Leah's voice actress was supposed to be voicing for Marina but after I had recorded all of the lines for Leo I was told that I should actually be voicing Marina instead so I was like I just recorded over 300 lines that's okay Wow but I actually ended up liking Marina a lot more because she's like a vocal character like I think and some ability she uses her voice like and I'm utilizing my ability to sing for it and it feels great to like have a character that I can sing with oh that's great that's amazing yeah that's really cool but as I feel like it would be fun to voice Nikolai though it's not not that is not me they would be fun it might be a fun challenge even know what Nikolai says I just know that we're going to have great to us Oh yeah I know the voice actor for Nikolai I have no idea of what his voice for him is so well hope the funniest character like hands down oh my God bro we're going to have to see we'll find out so um a lot of people a lot a lot of my viewers are kind of interested in looking in the voice acting themselves is there any advice you could give them like are there any books or online courses that they can look into and do you need to record in a studio or can you record at home there is it all depends like if you're starting the best way to start is just at home using a microphone like even if it's not good quality you can use a phone microphone you can download free programs like audacity and just like record into that it's very simple you just click the record button and you do that and there's a really good website called casting call club that I used to be a part of I used to actually be a moderator on the website I just got very busy where they have tons of casting calls they're all mostly fan projects some of them are paid some of them are more freelance worthy that you can audition for and it's just like actors and directors that are all coming together and it's a really good place to start especially that's where I started all right on yeah I'll definitely I'll look that up and and link it somewhere down in the video description so people can look into that yeah and they do have some classes on there as well that you can take monthly I think they're paid but they're not too much money you're definitely getting so much experience from them I believe at one point we had Rachel Messer who's been in a lot of anime we had one of the voice actors from Friday night at freddies I don't even know if I did the title right for that um but yes that five nights is freddies at freddies yeah they we had the voice actor for that and it's just a lot of good things to learn if you want to like about it but it's definitely a good place to start and you don't need a big studio like you can record with the 50 to $100 microphone maybe even a $20 one just put a blanket over your head it's totally fine put a blanket over your head that's that's the main thing that I'm going to pull away from all of that you know what it actually covers a lot it covers a lot of the room sound yeah though there's times where Emily's like try I'm getting a I'm getting a lot of like feedback on my mic what I do and I'm like you put a sock over that mic and if that doesn't look you put two socks over that mic try the second sock and that's my fault huh tips from the pros use the blanket and the sock I think it's important the sound of your closet sounds like my average Saturday night blanket over your head oh from the mic and it just clicked oh oh I clicked I clicked alright so I'm just gonna go lay down and die let me get back on track here have you have you ever have you ever tried to or do you have any desire to do screen or live acting actually because of my whole thing with opera I've done a lot of like onstage acting and I've been in a lot of musical theater as well so I've experienced with that I don't think I've ever really been in a movie I think it'd be fun I sure would love to try it I always had like a need to try doing cosplay and I think it'd be fun to like do a cosplay video but I'm not quite sure about movies because my memory like I can't remember left from right probably yeah I think that's kind of a requirement a big so who's your favorite character that you've ever voiced like ever oh here we go are we counting just original characters a character from shows and amaze just anything I love voicing Nico more than I love myself I and also Marina as well because Marina is just like I own her basically my voice is her she is me and it's cool to say that you have someone that is just like has the exact same voice as you and it's like you can say on the street yeah that I did that like people could see me and be like you're the voice for Marina can you say this line in her voice and I'll be like yes yes I can yeah that has got to be crazy like that probably will happen if this game is extremely successful people will be asking you to the voice Marina for them Oh I really hope so this is game it has such an innovative structure it's really to straying away from moba's like it is near like what Paragon was but it's like really I just love how intuitive it is I'm like the laning in everything as someone who plays like I've played a lot of mobas in the past no I did not like Dota but I played a lot of modus in the past and I really I just really enjoy this concept like I don't entirely understand it yet but I really want to learn and I hope that the fans will as well I hope so sounds like Marina and investigating a new world so excited to learn I think it's going to be excellent so cool I love it so much okay I think that's all the questions I had before plugs so many would you you want to plug your youtube channel or anything like twitch anything like that I wish I streamed I have no time for it you can follow me on twitter at somnia v a actually no it is okay long story I I wanted my name on twitter to be at the lyrical lady so I accidentally forgot one L so now it's the lyrical lady like the medication so lyrical that's me I don't even know what the medications for but that's what I am insomnia insomnia oh my god that's perfect yeah that's perfect because you're so soothing yeah let's say I did that on purpose let's say I did that totally did that on purpose yeah so you can follow me on twitter at the lyrical lady and you can follow me on youtube at the lyrical I will tell them how to spell it because it's some people find it very difficult I'll have it all linked in the video description as well I don't use too much other social media I guess if anyone wants I'll link my League of Legends name if someone wants to friend me on there too I'm not that good but I will play Nami and only voice it as Marina but that's all my plugs final questions before we conclude I don't have any questions but I definitely want to say thank you so much I was fangirling so much and so nervous for this interview because Marina is like she was my favorite of all the voice lines so I was like oh my gosh I can't believe we get to talk to Marina so thank you so much oh my god it was a pleasure I'm so happy that you guys chose me to be an interview because I love the voice and not just getting annoyed aww like a part of me feels like I made her sound too perfect I did not want to keep on a situation all right great well thank you for coming out and that's we're going to start talking about the interview a little bit more once we resume for the Minions I do want to say that we do have a recording somewhere she said she said it she starts out saying hi it's her normal voice and then when she says Marina she transitions into the Marina voice and it's the it's the funniest thing I've ever heard in my entire life do you want me to do it? do you want me to do it right now? are we recording? like right now? I'm always recording I'm never not recording you should totally do it right now are you sure you want me to do it right now? I would love you forever hey y'all it's Marina back at it again oh my god that was amazing oh my god that was so cool okay guys I hope you enjoyed that interview for the topic for discussion we're going to talk a little bit about the interview but first a lot of those questions came from you guys but some of the questions you ask are more in the line of what Tri-Color does than what Somdi does so let's ask him those questions right now starting off with what kind of techniques are used to get the best sounds and what technology use to change those original sounds so wow right out the gate so there's something called like best practices that we do in the audio industry and the best the quote unquote best practices changes depending on what game or product you're working on because some games might not really care about like the overall leveling or volume of lines something the first thing I'll do when I get a voice from an actor whether it be like an audition voice or like the actual voice lines if it wasn't recorded in my own studio I have a series of tools that I run it through to clean it and bring it up to like professional standards because I use Isotope which is like the industry standard that's like the one that only the best of the best use but so I'll denoise it which is I'll do a voice based denoise which like cleans and scrubs the ambient noise around where they're speaking and you have of course that's like you have to adjust the settings for each voice because every voice and microphone in an environment is different and those are really the two things that take into account like what kind of voice is this what kind of micro are they using and where are they recording those are like my three things I'm going to be like hey this is going to need like a little bit more love than someone's like $3,000 sure 89 condenser mic would need but using the right techniques you can make mics sound so similar to each other that people unless they're like really digging won't be able to tell the difference between audio recorded on different microphones and something that I like to do is I like to make sure all of the so like the characters have their own set of effects so like malware has his own glitch effects and Marina has her own water like effects in her voice and then all of those effects are bundled in like effects that all of the characters have so they all share the same like echo and they all have the same compressor so they all sound the same okay even if they have those different effects now are there are there any sort of like free or less expensive programs that people can use if they're just starting out and sound engineering is something they want to look to get into? well if you're if you're looking to be a voice actor and like sound engineer or voice I would recommend Audacity simply because Audacity is free and it's open source so any plug-in that you can get that would work with like Ableton or FL Studio or Pro Tools or FL Studio will work in Audacity so you can like if you get autotuned it'll work in Audacity that's like the beauty of the thing it's so it's so lightweight it's free it has a lot of tools built in it's got your noise reduction it's got your limiter there's a learning curve with audio engineering because it's not really something a lot of people do but there's a lot of like learning resources there's if you're looking to like if you're looking for sound effects or music production there's a YouTube channel called Audacity teach you specifically FL Studio but skills that you learn in one software will transition to another because they're all the same sound is sound no matter how you slice it so although each software might have a different way of calling it or a different way of achieving it you could always get the same results on every single platform right on and Audacity that's what I use too so it's very easy to use or just like the basic stuff that you want to do I just use a basic noise reduction on all of my audio and stuff like that so very easy to use very easy to pick up if you guys want to look into that it is goose approved it is goose approved there's also most like professional sound engineering softwares like FL Studio and Ampleton and stuff have demos or trials and you can see days or some insane amount like that so you can download that I think the FL Studio when you can use as much as you want you just can't save so like yeah so there's a lot of free options cool so another question they had was how long does it take to equip a character with a full set of voice lines oh my god I guess it probably depends on the character huh just really hit me deep like oh so some characters are talky and some characters are complex and some characters have effects and it all really depends on the character but if it's like a very basic sounding character like Talos I can get a voice like Talos done in about a week if I'm like if it's all I'm working on um for because Talos does he has like 120 voice lines below the average simply because his character doesn't allow for a whole lot of talking and his effects are very basic um a lot of it a lot of his lines are front loaded into his abilities so it's like it was super easy to get there and do it but then on the other side of things um Malware uh took forever Malware took a month and a half um simply because it's the so you have to clean the voice you have to get the voice done you have to find the effects that work you have to make sure those effects sound good across the whole voice and then you have to make sure the voice fits with the standards of the rest of the voices in the game then you have to split all those voice lines into like separate files organize them it's a lot it's a lot so I think we actually have a character that's being revealed next week that actually took the record from Malware for the longest voice um there's a twist he's not alone if you know what I mean oh shit so I'm not gonna spoil anything else um in that regard but he he should be one of the next ones coming out and he made me want to rip my hair out like I was like oh my god oh my god cause that one required like three different sets of effects like three different like I had to affect it export it put it back in affect it export it simply because the the chain was so complex it just wouldn't work any other way juicy info I don't even know about this so that was all the questions um they had so let's talk about this interview a little bit um Mandy you've developed quite the crush on Sonia yes I I don't know I didn't know it was possible to develop a crush on someone from their voice alone but it is I can tell you it is yeah I just me and Tri were kind of talking during a break and when her voice lines were revealed I felt a click if that makes sense like I was like this is a character I am into just from hearing her voice um and it was funny because when she was like first revealed and we first saw pictures of her I was like oh that's pretty cool but her voice brought her to life for me and definitely looking forward to trying her out in game and Somni is just crazy talented um in more ways than just voice acting she's a singer as well she's just incredible um and yeah it was amazing I was totally fangirling from the minute Goose told me that we were actors but it was one of my favorite uh characters that had been released so far so I was like totally fangirling and just had an incredible time uh with the interview and it has been adorable Mandy really does have a little girl crush haha haha haha so how long have you uh have you know Somni how long have you worked with her tricolor oh um I've worked with Somni now um it's a long relationship haha um I actually forget about when I like wear what I met her I was doing voice packs for Lee uh and we were doing star guardian voice packs which are very like they're very popular with the community and um she could do both Cindra and Janna which are like Janna is very deep and Janna is very light and high pitched and I was like okay so that's blowing my mind right now but um uh so you know whenever you do a project with a voice actor and like the project is very successful you too tend to keep in touch just in case things like you know things pop up again it's to your mutual benefit and through that keeping in touch we just became friends um and as we like as more projects were coming out and she was getting more roles I was like okay so this is someone that needs to be like in my close circle like this is a um uh not only a friend but an asset and when Marina was pitched to me I uh because the first Somni was going to voice Leah um and honestly the choice of switching the two was obvious in hindsight um but um it it's really strange to be like yeah but working with her for three years three years already like where does the time go you know what I mean um so yeah she's very talented a lot some Marina actually has vocalization in some of her lines and abilities and so uh Somni really was able to get the opera like she was able to use her opera experience um so you're gonna you're gonna your ears are going to be pleased in game you guys really work uh exceptionally hard to bring the um to meld the voice lines with the lure um uh if you guys don't you guys don't know you probably know already but I do a lot of the final edits for the lure for ethereal so hopefully people everybody will have that lure in their hands I've already read a vast majority of it so just when you hear the voices and you know the story it is so cool how these voice actors are able to impart so much feeling and emotion into these characters that really fits in with their lure I'm so excited for you guys to be able to even if you don't like lure I think you're you're gonna wanna look into the ethereal's lure especially if you enjoy these voice lines it just something that Paragon did not have um we are I mean that's what this whole journey has been about is finding a uh a replacement for Paragon um I've been saying from the beginning that I think ethereal could be not just a replacement but an even better version of Paragon and with these voice lines it will definitely outshine Paragon in that department because Paragon didn't have any fucking voice lines so like I said last week you know they just did 90 seconds of each voice line it was 90 seconds more than Paragon ever had so um yeah it's been really fun working on ethereal there's a lot of work to be done I'm just finishing up with like the first wave uh tomorrow and there's like three more waves planned so um it's been really fun cause like sound is what I do it's what I live for darling so uh it's the most important like it feels so good people are like I love this voice I love these sound effects are like when I heard this voice I knew I had to make them cause that's the feeling I get when I hear like a voice I really like and that's what like inspires me to do this because that feeling is so good it's so good it's like it's just awesome it's like a sugar rush um cause there are characters that I would never have even discovered if I hadn't known about their voice so um it's just very fun it's so fun it's so cool there's like voice actors coming out of the woodwork and I'm like where have you been I could have used you a year ago so you know it's very it's fun um uh hopefully we have a we have a tentative release window of later this year early next year but that's of course could change could be pushed back depending on like quality and stuff like that but everything is working excellent excellent good to hear um I actually had a couple questions I wanted to ask try um one was have you ever wanted to do any voice acting or done any voice acting yourself or do you just like to kind of manipulate pull the strings so to speak that's ominous try there buddy oh sorry my internet cut out can you repeat that oh um so I was just curious if you have ever wanted to do any voice acting have you done a voice acting yourself are you more kind of behind the scenes I um man really making it hard for me not to spoil aren't you oh oh my okay so if I'm not going to say anything else everybody heard that but um in order to be a director you have to know how to voice act so like if you want to be if you want to tell someone how to do their craft you have to know the craft true so I haven't been in anything but I am a I am a qualified voice actor um I've taken classes on like voice acting theory I've been doing it for about three years now so like I'm pretty good at it um it's just that I'm way more interested in being the director and the engineer a lot of um games and movies and TV shows the voice director actually does become a voice um at some point simply because they want to do it and they can't do it no one knows the voice better than the voice director like um there's this game called battle born I don't know if you guys remember um yeah there was a DLC character named Rix and she was like this crazy doctor character and she's voiced by the voice director for the game so it pops up a lot more often than people think but um I do love voice acting I have a an embarrassing amount of like me doing impressions of my favorite characters um it's it's cringy y'all but um but um there's a lot of opportunity in ethereal for me to pop up who knows I could be I could be the uh the announcer you don't know no one no one knows um but yeah it's fun it's fun to do it's fun to be a part of it's a creative process I bet um one other question I had was how involved were you in the like concepts of these creators because I would feel like their voice and it like we've talked about the connection between the lore and the voice and the character and stuff like that so were you present in the concepts of these characters when they were being created or were you just handed once they were created and said here create a voice for them I was handed them I wasn't present for these characters um although things tend to change once a voice is added so like um the voice is the character and vice versa so um the voice will be out and I'll be like so like I thought this was a little meh so I like spruce it up a bit added a voice line reference to it and they'll be like okay it doesn't change the character but it gives them depth and layers um cause like when Marina was pitched to me they were like she's a princess who is curious she's been taken to a new world that's it there you go and I was like okay so let's let's uh let's uh work some magic so now she's still that but she's also like intelligent right she's also very um strong she has she's had a prior training like a lot of little details that aren't in the lore can be represented in the voice lines and she has that thing with Talos which is hilarious but um yeah a lot of times they I don't help make the character they hand me the character and they say go crazy and I go crazy and the end result is the voice line that's really really cool thank you I will say that you know I've been saying Malaya was best girl for a long time but after reading all the lore I was kind of gravitating more towards Escheron um kind of excited to hear his voice lines but after hearing Malaya's voice lines I am back when the Malaya bandwagon was she just sounds so anguished in her voice I love it so anguished and tortured and just oh so good so good she's awesome Malaya was actually the first voice I did um so so like you know I'm always learning even during this process even during this project so even in the span of time between Malaya I'm like oh my god I could have like you know what I mean but thankfully no one notices things unless they really look for them so I'm like okay I'm safe um Malaya actually I actually had to bring her actress back in because I forgot to write a joke for her so she doesn't have a joke and I was like you know that's kind of fitting with her character that's what I was thinking she's not but um oh yeah it's it's been very very fun and Malaya is best girl fight me oh she just needs a hug she just needs a hug nobody wants a hug or with those calls she just needs a hug some cocoa it just like I don't a Netflix bitch she just needs a hug oh aw alright you got anything else to say about the topic I'm good try color any any final remarks we have a lot of other stuff coming out so brace yourself write one alright so let's move on to plugs try color you got anything you want to plug you can visit my twitter in the description so yeah that's it I just want to plug my twitter banding I actually am working on a video like I was talking about with my back injury it's been a little difficult to get done so hopefully it will be out um by the time for the minions airs or very shortly afterwards but yes I am working on a video right on hopefully I can get a video done too that is going to be it for this week folks thank you for joining us once again I hope you guys enjoyed that um listening to that interview as much as we enjoyed conducting that interview um it's been a crazy ride people I mean this is we're 40 episodes in I never thought that we would be doing this for 40 episodes um and just the some of the crazy opportunities we've had this one being ranking up there amongst among the top um and we we really appreciate you guys coming along uh for the ride um from the bottom of heart I know a lot of you guys a lot of you guys in the comments will often say that Mandy and I are kind of the heart and soul of the uh the current Paragon community but no it's everybody right now I mean we're all in this together um that if there's one good thing about Paragon Dying it's how it brought so many people together uh that shared understanding and that's why we all support each other but for now this is the four of the minions crew signing off you guys have a good one man go