Composer, show producer and sound designer Ron Fish, who specializes in creating scores for theme parks and video games, regularly utilizes an RME Fireface UFX II audio interface joined by DSP-based TotalMix software that facilitates fully independent routing and mixing of input and playback channels to all physical outputs.
“The clarity of the RME converter is incredible. The very first thing I noticed was a little less low end and with that became an unmasking. All of a sudden I can hear other frequencies that I couldn’t with my other equipment and the TotalMix software has been impeccably great, like phenomenal,” he says. “I gotta say I think TotalMix is the premier software router that I can think of on a converter for a converter. It is amazing how many different ways I could set this up. It’s remarkably powerful and the routing is insane.”
Fish first began his career studying the creation of music at Berklee College in Boston, and later moved to Los Angeles, where he pushed his education towards computer programming and simultaneously toured the local music scene as a drummer. Eventually, he joined Walt Disney Imagineering for several years before deciding to go independent.
Over the years Fish has authored scores for successful video games such as God of War and its sequels as well as Batman Arkham Asylum and Batman Arkham City, and added to his discography by producing multiple scores for Abu Dhabi’s Warner Brothers Theme Park. Those scores include The Joker’s Playhouse and an award-winning composition for Batman ride Knight Flight, and he did the sound design for the Gotham section of the theme park as well.
Fish notes that RME removes unnecessary hurdles in his creative process so that he can put full focus on his artistic expression. “There would be times I would feel I was overcompensating. I never knew exactly how much or where and just thought it was most likely my speakers,” he says. “But when I listen to those same mixes, on those same speakers but with the converter, I can hear exactly where I’ve overcompensated.
“The converter is amazing and most importantly the stereo field is unimaginably beautiful. It is so wide that if I pan something left, all the way, there’s nothing left on the right. And if I do it on the right, it’s exactly to the right. Everything in between has its proper space in the field and that’s remarkable. I couldn’t be happier with it, truly fantastic.”
