Rob Pearsall

Rob Pearsall is an American composer working in video games and film. Born in Texas but raised in Southern California, he now lives with his wife outside Seattle, Washington. He has worked in the music industry for almost fifty years, but his game audio career started in 2002 when he established Rip Street Audio.https://www.ripstreetaudio.com/ to provide music, sound and voice to video games. Since that time he has contributed to over fifty games including Halo 4, République, Destinyhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm7111207/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1, Battletech, Falcon Age, and The Lamplighters Leaguehttps://www.mobygames.com/person/73000/rob-pearsall/
==Early Life==
Pearsall began his career by taking drum lessons at age ten. By age twelve, his teacher had recommended him to be the pit drummer in a community theater production of Guys and Dolls. At sixteen, he taught himself to play guitar which also kickstarted his interest in songwriting. Through high school jazz band and musicals, church choirs, and rock bands, he moved on to college where he graduated from California State University Dominguez Hills with a Bachelors degree in music with emphasis on 'Electronic Music and Recording'.
During college he found time to be the sound mixer for the band, Children of the Lighthttps://www.randyboldt.com/music on a national tour, produced a solo Christian music album, Abiding in Him,https://www.discogs.com/release/7905832-Rob-Pearsall-And-Friends-Abiding-In-Him and started the band, Tradewind, also producing their album, Until the Storm is Past.https://www.discogs.com/release/11197321-Tradewind-Until-The-Storm-Is-Past
==Early Career==
For the next ten years, Rob worked as a church music leader in three different churches in California.
Then in 1992, he revived his career as a recording artist, touring nationally and writing/recording two CD's of original music and one acoustic cover album of hymns.
==Game & Film Career==
2002-present
For games, Rob has filled the roles of audio tester, mixer, VO editor, sound designer, audio director, and composer. For film, he composed the score for the short film, "The Gift" (2015).https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7111207/?ref_=nmbio_ov
==Works==
Games except where noted
Year	Project 	Developer 	Role
2023	The Lamplighters League 	Harebrained Schemes 	Audio Director
2019	Falcon Age 	Outerloop Games 	Audio Director, Co-composer
2018	BattleTech 	Harebrained Schemes 	Audio Director
2016	Necropolis 	Harebrained Schemes 	Sound Designer
2015	The Gift (short film) 	Perche No? Productions	Composer
2015	Destiny: The Taken King 	Bungie 	Sound Designer, Dialogue Editor
2014	Destiny 	Bungie 	Sound Designer, Dialogue Editor
2013	République 	Camouflaj 	Sound Designer
2012	Halo 4 	343 industries 	Audio Tester
2011	Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary 	Microsoft Studios 	Audio Tester
2003	Motorsiege: Warriors of Primetime 	Lightspeed Games 	Actor, Additional Music
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	WXP 	Voice & audio editing, Mixing
Recordings
Year	Title 	Artist 	Role
2022	Laura's Living Roomhttps://open.spotify.com/album/6oOQgAvjjQHeQrMlZ4CHud?si=e6Xo4xu6TPOHo1PXsD0cjg 	The Whirlies 	Producer, Performer
2020	Falcon Age OSThttps://open.spotify.com/album/6mzhcI1YVtmQCz36vGbWW9?si=yXvUyhXbRXOkjc0hRPwELg 	Rob Pearsall & Jeffery Pierce	Co-Composer
2020	Tales From The Coasthttps://open.spotify.com/album/1LmemmVkCGX7fVcjQV9TGl?si=c8OB8BvxRZ2i5iXHkhfhAw	Rob Pearsall 	Composer, Producer
1997	Hymns 	Rob Pearsall 	Producer, Performer
1994	He Is No Fool 	Rob Pearsall 	Producer, Performer
1993	Need to Choose 	Rob Pearsall 	Producer, Performer
1979	Until the Storm is Past 	Tradewind 	Producer, Performer
1977	Abiding in Him 	Rob Pearsall & Friends 	Producer, Performer
Category:1956 births
Category:People from Temple, Texas
Category:Composers
Category:Audio directors
Category:Sound designers