Ryan Beard
Over 25 years of experience working with digital audio
Highly skilled in audio production and sound design
Decades of solo and group composition experience
Over a decade of experience as a studio / private guitar instructor
Decades of experience producing and performing with live acts
“I enjoy participating in all aspects of the creative lifecycle and continuously seek opportunities to improve my skills by partnering with like-minded individuals and organizations.”
Audio Production
All samples have been written, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Ryan in his home studio (except as noted). Most instrumentation was also performed/programmed by Ryan.
Ryan uses Logic Pro X with Waves, UA, iZotope, Softube, SoundToys, and Kuassa plugins.
Podcasts
Provided the main theme music for “A Moments’ Portal”. Through the first series of Moment’s portal, you will travel to Egypt, Kenya, Irak, Brasil, India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. You will meet makers, hackers, designers, and community builders who face challenges related to humanitarian response after an earthquake, setback after a building collapse, the support of the global community in times of financial difficulties, or the peer-to-peer mentorship and empowerment of diversity in tech, personal career paths and how a goat ate the plan.
Barricades at Night - Growing Fear
Recorded, programmed, mixed, mastered, and distributed by Monster Logo Studios
*Drums / Percussion performed and recorded by Travis Orbin.
Travis Orbin - Self Titled
2023 Self-titled release by Travis Orbin.
Guitars on all tracks except 6 and 15 recorded and engineered by Monster Logo Studios
Additional Albums
All albums are available on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and most other digital platforms.
Barricades at Night - VOIDS
Recorded, programmed, mixed, mastered, and distributed by Monster Logo Studios
*Drums / Percussion performed and recorded by Travis Orbin.
Oracle - Low Notes E.P.
Recorded, programmed, mixed, mastered, and distributed by Monster Logo Studios
Gabe Larose - Through The Motions
Recorded, programmed, mixed and mastered by Monster Logo Studios
Video Production
All video content was recorded, produced, and edited by Ryan.
Ryan uses Final Cut Pro X with Pixel Film Studios and FxFactory plugins.
More content available on the Monster Logo Studios YouTube channel.
A retro-inspired teaser video for a corporate offsite event. All post-production, editing, and music composition / sound design done in-house. Custom motion graphic for “High Performance Business Systems” also provided by MLS. 3D logo and animation were outsourced.
Music video created using Disco Diffusion with song lyrics as text prompts. Responsible for art direction, video/audio composition, recording, & production.
Music video for 2020 demo song composed of edited stock footage.
This music video contains a custom spectrum analyzer that was designed in Motion to match the album art.
Winning live performance recorded for 2020 Online Open Mic competition.
Comedic retro-design commercial for corporate intranet portal. Responsible for end-to-end production, including voiceover.
Teaser for the “Farty Bird” video game available on Steam. All production done in-house including animation, video editing, sound design, and recording/mixing overdubs.
Game Development
Ryan uses Unity (C#), PyGame (Python), PlayDate SDK (Pulp Script & Lua), Rider, Visual Studio / Visual Studio Code, and GitHub.
Comet is an unreleased puzzle adventure game for the PlayDate.
In-game sound design and trailer post-production support provided by Ryan. SFX produced wth a mix of field recorded sample manipulation and various synthesizers.
The result of a 96 hour GameJame hosted by itch.io, Frankenmind is a 2D retro-styled action adventure game.
Ryan provided all sfx/music & level design and supported pixel art asset development.
Dodge fingers, turd-streakers, buttflys and more in this retro-style 2D endless runner. Collect powers to earn bullets, but use them wisely – ammunition is scarce! Each level presents new challenges and a quicker speed. Hone your reflexes and fight for placement on the leaderboard by avoiding enemies and carefully conserving ammunition.
Farty Bird was released on Steam for Mac / Windows in June 2021.
Mission Impossible: Rogue Network was developed with VB.NET as a WPF application. It was delivered for a company offsite as a team-building exercise. 10 teams competed in real-time, with a live scoreboard available in-game.
Ryan served as game designer, developer, sound designer / composer, and co-producer.
Cleared to Launch is a ‘choose your own adventure’ game developed in ASP.NET and hosted as an Azure Web App.
Ryan served as the game designer, co-producer, and developed the narration/timeline using Twine. He also developed, recorded, edited and produced the tutorial video presented here.