Name: Tim Larkin
Occupation: Sound designer, composer
Credits: Myst, Half-Life 2
Base of Operations: Los Angeles, CA

“I keep the MicroTrack with me pretty much everywhere—in the car or a briefcase, even on my nightstand at night,” says Larkin. “I think it's more rewarding for me to use my own sound rather than libraries whenever possible. And with the MicroTrack, sounds become more available. You get sounds you couldn’t get if you had to set up a remote recording rig. It's not something you plan for; it's spontaneous because you just happen to have the MicroTrack with you.

“One time I had it with me on an airplane—I was flying to Seattle and I wanted to get some sounds of the airplanes taking off and landing. I used the MicroTrack and that sound ended up in Half-Life 2. There’s a launch sequence where a rocket takes off and that was part of the underlying rumble sound that I used for it.”