Audio Direction
Trusted Audio Direction For Scalable, AAA-Grade Results
Give your projects a strong creative vision and effective leadeship by engaging us to provide you with bold audio direction, fueled by industry veterans with decades of AAA game audio experience.
Wickedly Effective Audio Direction
Audio Vision Development
We help define the creative direction and sonic identity of your game project from the ground up.
Pipeline & Integration Process
We build a streamlined workflow for implementation across game engines and middleware.
Team Building & Management
We source, hire, and coordinate internal and external game audio professionals
Cross-Department Collaboration
We facilitate communication between design, engineering, narrative, game audio, and everyone else.
Final Mix Oversight
We lead the mixing process, balancing all assets to deliver a polished, immersive interactive experience.
Why Use Audio Direction Services
Audio direction is the central hub of creative decision-making for game audio. Li & Ortega provides award-winning, production-tested leadership for projects that need clarity, cohesion, and impact in their sound design.
Whether you're working with in-house talent or outsourcing entirely, we act as your project's sonic architect—translating your narrative, gameplay, and aesthetic goals into actionable game audio strategies.
We build fully scalable solutions, from indie titles to AAA games, offering a unified voice for your game's entire audio experience.
Don’t settle for generic game audio. Leave a lasting impression with purposeful sound.
Hints You Need Audio Direction
You're juggling scattered audio sources with no unified tone or ownership.
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Audio delays keep derailing your schedule due to a broken or missing pipeline.
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Your game’s near launch, but no one owns the final mix or balancing process.
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You need audio talent but lack a hiring plan, leading to delays and budget issues.
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Your teams are misaligned because no one’s directing audio across departments.
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Our Process
Discovery & Alignment
We meet with leads in design, narrative, and production to define your game audio priorities.
Audio Vision Creation
We craft a top-level vision including tone, emotional cues, style guides, and tech benchmarks.
Pipeline Architecture
We set up tools, naming systems, middleware paths, and timelines for smooth delivery.
Talent Management
We help hire or align composers, sound designers, and VO talent under one cohesive audio direction.
Creative Direction & Oversight
We lead asset review, coordinate teams, and manage the final mix for consistency and polish.
Why Choose Li & Ortega For Audio Direction?
Li & Ortega provides hands-on game audio leadership and industry-tested frameworks to game development teams worldwide. With credits spanning indie darlings to major studio titles, we bring technical fluency, aesthetic clarity, and diplomatic team management to every project.
You won’t just get direction—you’ll get results that serve the gameplay, support the story, and raise the emotional impact of your experience.
Selected Projects Our Folks Have Worked On
Call Of Duty (Franchise)
Audio Direction, Sound Design, Mix, Implementation.
Star Wars: Hunters
Audio Direction
Oddworld: Soulstorm
Audio Direction, Sound Design, Technical Sound Design
Stormgate
Audio Direction
Garena Free Fire
Voice Direction, Voice Casting, Voice Acting
Software Brands That Power Our Sound
Middleware: FMOD, Wwise
DAWs: Pro Tools, Reaper, Logic Pro, Nuendo, Cubase
Source Control: Perforce, Git
Game Engines: Unreal Engine, Unity
Project Management: Trello, Jira
Collaboration: Google Workspace, Notion
Every tool we use fits your project’s structure, performance needs, and creative vision—nothing unnecessary, nothing forced.
Common Audio Direction Questions
What’s the difference between audio direction and sound design?
Audio direction sets the vision, leads the team, and oversees the project managerially, while sound design focuses on the creation of individual sound assets. In audio direction, we ensure that every sound is part of a larger, consistent experience.
Can you help us hire or outsource audio people?
Yes. We can build your internal team or manage external vendors, including composers, sound designers, VO directors, and integrators.
When in the project should we bring in an audio director?
As early as possible. Bringing us in from pre-production ensures audio is aligned with design, narrative, and technical goals from the start.
Can we use our existing team?
Absolutely. We can lead and mentor existing in-house staff while providing high-level strategy and communication flow.
Do you provide hands-on implementation?
We can provide implementation support as needed, but if you hire us specifically for audio direction, that service focuses on vision, strategy, staffing, and oversight.
Testimonials
Drive Impact With Consistent Audio Direction
Ready to align your team, your tools, and your sound? We’re ready when you are.