A Senior-Led, Full-Stack Audio Studio
Founded 2019 · Los Angeles
Independent studio built by veterans of AAA games, film and television.
Design through implementation
One team carries every sound from first concept to shipping build.
Experience where it counts
Veteran leads direct every engagement; capacity flexes to match production.
Games · Film · TV · Trailers
Interactive and cinematic storytelling under one roof.
“We don’t just design sound. We build worlds that live and breathe through audio.”
Built for AAA Production
Founded
Independent studio · Los Angeles
Team Members
A bench of proven AAA specialists
Combined Years of AAA
Shipping experience across leadership
AAA Games · Film · Television
Interactive and cinematic work under one roof.
Global Delivery
Talent across five regions, aligned to your hours.
Design Through Implementation
Every sound built, tuned and shipped in-engine.
An Extension of Your Internal Team
We don’t deliver folders of audio files from the outside. We embed inside your dev tools, your pipeline and your builds, designing and implementing sound as part of your team.
Teams scale up or down as production demands, without losing context, consistency or ownership.
In-game and cinematic sound design, in-engine, day to day.
Independent owners of complex features. Minimal supervision required.
Creative direction, review structure and sonic identity across a title.
Scheduling, milestones and communication that plug into your production.
The Co-Dev Advantage
Design + Implementation
One team handles the full audio pipeline. No handoffs, no translation loss.
Embedded Partners
We operate inside your pipeline, tools and culture, like in-house staff.
End-to-End Accountability
From first sound to final mix, we own the outcome and hit your quality bar.
Knowledge Transfer
Our senior designers integrate seamlessly with internal teams, delivering production-ready work while elevating less-experienced designers through daily collaboration.
It feels less like getting outsourcing support and more like expanding our in-house audio team with exceptional talent. Every time we work with them, it feels like a natural extension of our studio.
The True Cost of Outsourced Audio
TYPICAL PRICE-DRIVEN VENDOR
- Failed first passes and repeated revision cycles
- Heavy supervision from your senior staff
- Assets delivered without implementation context
- Schedule risk lands back on the internal team
- The “cheap” option quietly becomes the expensive one
VICIOUS SOUND SENIOR CO-DEV
- First-pass quality that survives review
- Minimal direction. Seniors run independently
- Implemented in-engine, ready to ship
- Frees your most experienced staff for their own work
- Predictable schedules, fewer surprises
Full-Spectrum Audio, One Studio
Interactive systems, weapons, abilities, UI, ambience and full production audio.
Wwise, FMOD, Unreal, Unity & proprietary engines. Design and integration as one.
Impactful soundscapes for theatrical and streaming storytelling.
Award-winning facilities and talent, scaling to any schedule.
Recording, editorial & mix for linear and interactive media.
Recording and precision editing for all media formats.
Original scoring that elevates narrative for any project.
Runtime systems, tool development & engine-level co-dev.
Embedded producers, sprint planning, milestone tracking & coordination.
We Don’t Ship WAV Files.
We Ship Games.
Every sound we make is built as a living system: implemented in-engine, tuned in context, optimized for performance and iterated until the game ships.
Three Ways to Start
How Vicious Scales
Creative leadership · client-facing · final approval
Complex systems · implementation leadership · review
Production sound design · variants · implementation
Content support · asset prep · supervised QA
Talent matched to task complexity, with senior review on every deliverable. One quality bar.
SUPPORTED BY
Producers
Milestones, planning & communication
Technical Sound Designers
Design intent, engine reality
Audio Programmers
Systems, tools & pipelines
Production Coordinators
Tracking & cross-team flow
A Worldwide Senior Network
Follow-the-sun delivery
Hand-offs that keep production moving overnight.
Aligned to your hours
Core collaboration windows matched to your studio.
One delivery system
Direction, review and QC stay within Vicious Sound.
Why Studios Scale With Vicious
Every Genre. Every Platform.
Call of Duty · Fortnite · Marathon · Project Spectrum
Death Stranding 2 · Destiny · Marathon · Fortnite
God of War · SMITE · SMITE 2 · Wicked
The Last of Us · Welcome to Derry · IT Chapter Two · Project Spectrum
God of War · Uncharted · Jedi: Fallen Order · Death Stranding 2
Fortnite · SMITE 2 · Marathon · MadWorld
Black Adam · Shazam! · Wicked · The Tomorrow War · Welcome to Derry
DC League of Super-Pets · GOAT · Shazam! · Black Adam
Featured Work
Interactive Sound Design Expertise
- Vocalization & vocal processing
- Organic source recording
- Behavioral states & combat
- Movement & body detail
- Runtime variation systems
- Firearms, explosives & ballistics
- Melee, blades & heavy impacts
- Layered mechanical detail
- First-person responsiveness
- Switching & variation systems
- Hero abilities & powers
- Sci-fi tech & energy systems
- Traversal & movement audio
- Cooldown & impact feedback
- State-driven implementation
- Cosmetic audio identity
- Emotes, skins & collabs
- Seasonal events & updates
- High-volume production
- Consistent ongoing quality
- Magic systems & spell design
- Divine & elemental powers
- Supernatural forces
- Cinematic power moments
- Fantasy clarity in gameplay
Linear Craft at AAA Scale
Narrative & story moments
Sound that carries emotion across cutscenes and gameplay.
Dolby Atmos mixing
Theatrical-grade delivery, mixed in-house.
Foley & dialogue support
Performance-level detail for characters that feel alive.
In-game cinematics
From previz to final mix, matched to the game’s sonic identity.
Trailers & world premieres
Marketing beats built with full cinematic weight.
Cinematic sound and Atmos mixes for Death Stranding 2, The Last of Us, Destiny 2 and IT Chapter Two.
Built for the Long Run
Seasonal content & events
Recurring drops delivered on cadence, season after season.
Cosmetics & collaborations
High-volume asset production without quality drift.
Rapid iteration
Designers who move at live-ops speed.
Long-term partnership
Multi-year engagements that grow with your game.
Production scalability
Teams ramp up for major drops and down between seasons.
Ongoing co-development across Fortnite, Marathon, SMITE 2 and MadWorld: seasonal sound, trailers and live content.
Technical Sound Design, Audio Programming & Tools
Runtime audio systems
State-driven behavior, variation and real-time mixing at scale.
Pipeline development
Asset pipelines that keep large teams fast and consistent.
Custom tools & plug-ins
Workflow automation built for your exact stack.
Middleware integration
Deep Wwise and FMOD expertise, engine-side and DSP.
Technical sound design
The bridge between creative intent and engine reality.
From Wwise integration and DSP plug-in development to proprietary pipelines, our audio programmers work engine-side.
An External Audio Department
Senior & embedded producers
Production leadership that plugs directly into your team.
Production coordination
Scheduling, sprint planning and milestone tracking.
Cross-discipline communication
Coordination across design, animation, engineering and vendors.
Audio direction & implementation leads
Creative and technical leadership across the audio stack.
Technical audio & programming support
Pipelines, tooling and runtime systems alongside content.
More than sound design: production structure, communication and delivery discipline, built around your milestones.
Hear It for Yourself
WATCH THE REEL
Meet Our Leaders
Erick OcampoFounder, CEO & Supervising Sound Designer
20+ years in game audio, nearly a decade in film and television. The creative and strategic force behind the studio.
Samantha OcampoCo-Founder & Director of Finance
Co-founder managing operations, budgets and team coordination. Theater and music background enriches creative contribution, including voice work for games and film.
Aaron LeMayChief Operating Officer
30+ years across AAA titles including Halo, Saints Row and TERA. Leads technology strategy, AI pipeline development and next-generation audio tooling.
Maxine VirtueSenior Producer
10+ years leading art and game production at Meta, Riot Games and Blizzard. Credits include 2XKO, Diablo II: Resurrected and StarCraft Remastered.
Talent That Matches Your Production
Studio leadership with decades of shipped AAA experience.
Creative direction and sonic identity across full titles.
Independent owners of complex, high-visibility work.
Production sound design, variants and implementation.
Supervised production capacity within clear briefs.
Runtime systems, tools, plug-ins and middleware.
The bridge between design intent and engine reality.
Embedded production leadership and client communication.
Scheduling, tracking and cross-team coordination.
Senior leadership where it matters. Production capacity where it makes sense.
What Our Partners Say
Vicious Sound consistently delivers memorable, high-impact audio that’s filled with personality. Our experiences wouldn’t sound the same without their contributions.
They’re able to do both sound design and implementation, enabling them to work alongside our internal team as co-devs. Concord would simply not sound as good without their contribution.
Let’s Build
Together
We’ll meet your production wherever it is.