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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️

@alterasound.com
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Audio engineer. YouTube content creator. Immersive audio enthusiast. By day I'm wrangling technology. By night I'm recording sound effects and making music. 📌 MSP linktr.ee/alterasound

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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 25/09/2026
My neighborhood has the sauce
A t-shirt featuring a Nancy comic. Sluggo is seated on a curb saying "I'm bored -- I think I'll become a beatnik".
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 25/09/2026
Accidents make great photos! One of my favorites is one where I completely missed the focus.
A blurry photo of artificial lights across a valley at twilight.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 23/09/2026
Lmao
A text exchange:
"Data centers bring billions in economic investment to Kansas-including fully funded upgrades to our energy grid.
See why strong energy infrastructure is key to America's Al leadership:"

"Eat shit and die robot fuckers"
A text reply:
"You have successfully unsubscribed."
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 21/09/2026
For additional reference, this is how I look in a Miata.
Katie wearing a grey and blue turtleneck sweater and sitting in the driver's seat of a red convertible Miata.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 21/09/2026
Imagine this girl in that car. For a modest five figure sum you can make that a reality.
Katie wearing a white button up shirt, turquoise earrings, and wool felt hat.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 20/09/2026
From lowpoint to high point
People taking pictures inside Jewel CaveKatie on Black Elk Peak, highest point in South Dakota
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 16/09/2026
If you want to, you should! Even with everything.
Katie circa 2019Modern-day Katie
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 04/08/2026
Reaction image of a girl going "waow" while thinking "based based based based based"
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 15/07/2026
About to commit a salmon-in-transit heist.
A hotel shuttle van with three boxes of the salmon visible in the rear window.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 15/07/2026
A man with five large white boxes loaded on a luggage trolley.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 15/07/2026
Not crippling soreness, nor 90 degree heat, nor a 30 minute layover can keep me from my beloved Denver aircraft viewing area.
Outdoor patio at the Denver International Airport with views of the runway.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 13/07/2026
Made it to the top!
Katie on the summit of Mount Baker WA. Arms raised in the air with ice axe in hand. She is very bundled up and cold.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 11/07/2026
Bskying from here for the next few days.
Katie in a balaclava and sun hoodie in front of a tent which is up in the mountains.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 02/07/2026
Mattie Lubchansky comic with the game show "is that good?"
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 25/06/2026
Attended the Minneapolus cat tour today 😁
A white cat in a strollerA tabby cat sniffing a kid's hands from a backpackAn orange cat lying on someone's lapTotally a cat
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 24/06/2026
My girlfriend wanted to participate in #makeaterriblecomicday but she refused to make a Bluesky account so I'm posting it for her...
A two panel comic. In the first panel a waitress goes "Let's see, I got a Pepsi, a Starry, and did you order the Code Red?". The second panel, Jack Nicholson from A Few Good Men replies "you're goddamn right I did!!".
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 19/06/2026
It's hard emptying out and saying goodbye to an old studio.
An empty room with hardwood floors and three windows.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 04/06/2026
A tombolo is an isthmus that forms as sediment builds up between the mainland and an offshore island. For field recordings, it means capturing 360° of waves lapping against the shore. Get this and many other recordings for only $30 with code 'UPNORTH26'! alterasound.gumroad.com/l/northernat...
An island in Lake Superior connected to the mainland by a tombolo.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 31/05/2026
I spent a week traversing Minnesota, from the Red River to Lake Superior, stopping in all kinds of biomes along the way to capture the sounds of nature.
View of a lake in Voyageurs National ParkUpper Red Lake viewed from Big Bog State Recreation Area.The Chippewa Plains in a state forest.Lake Itasca in the Mississippi Headwaters.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 30/05/2026
New SFX alert! Do you need the sounds of Northern Minnesota? From the Red River, to the Upper Mississippi, to Lake Superior, this has everything you need. Get $10 off for the first week with code 'UPNORTH26' (that's only $30) alterasound.gumroad.com/l/surroundtr...
Northern Plains, Wetlands, and Forests Autumn Atmospheres cover art.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 06/05/2026
Estrogen is magic 2014 -> 2026
Katie circa 2014 with a frown and a bowtieKatie in 2026 at the highest point in Iowa with a big smile.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 05/05/2026
Some raw stills from this project. Still working out some kinks (like remembering the correct settings).
A fisheye image of a short waterfall in a forest.A fisheye image of a creek in a forest.A fisheye image of a lake taken from the shore of an island.A fisheye image of a forest.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 29/04/2026
My hyper-portable setup for capturing fulldome video and 3D audio in the wild.
A GH6 mirrorless camera with a fisheye lens mounted on a white tripod in the woods. There is an H3-VR audio recorded mounted to the tripod as well.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 26/04/2026
I spotted one of the famous MSP albino squirrels.
A white squirrel in the grass of a city hellstrip.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 15/04/2026
WFS system is complete! And it actually sounds really good (once I got all the speakers wired in polarity). Now to wire 16 XLRs so I can run it properly.
A black wavefield synthesis speaker system consisting of fifteen four inch drivers lined up horizontally. There is various wiring from the power supply and amplifiers on top of the speaker.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 13/04/2026
I love routers (and not just the wifi kind)
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 09/04/2026
I'm testing a camera setup for shooting fulldome video... these lenses are very wide.
A screenshot from Festoon Player showing a virtual image of a fulldome planetarium with a very large Katie head peeking onto the screen.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 15/03/2026
Search your camera roll for "hell" Unfortunately I don't remember who I stole this from but it was definitely on here 😆
The world: is on fire
Me: do you need any sound design
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 11/02/2026
Just spent a couple hours with a 4" hole dozer... now for the test fit! Looking good for my 15-channel wavefield synthesis system.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 08/02/2026
The wings
Plate with five kinds of boneless chicken wings
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 08/02/2026
The wing sauces for the game; bbq, sesame sriracha, buffalo, garlic parmesan, and honey mustard.
Five ramekins of wing sauce on a wood cutting board
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 25/01/2026
How I'm staying warm this weekend; icelandic seafood soup and pancakes. CW food
A bowl of creamy reddish soup with parsley garnish on topPancakes on a plate covered in syrup with a runny fried egg
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 23/01/2026
The cold has turned me into a scifi horror character.
Katie wearing a balaclava and asthma mask that has given her a very ominous appearance.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 14/01/2026
Got to see some deicing on my way home!
American Eagle E-Jet being sprayed by a deicing truck.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 12/01/2026
Watched a 747-8 do touch-and-goes while waiting for my flight to board.
An Atlas Air 747-8 on the tarmac behind two Southwest 737s.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 25/12/2025
Sister crocheted me a lil family for Christmas!
One big and four little possums nestled between a lighthouse statue and storm lantern.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 15/12/2025
Back on my BS (watching planes during a layover at Denver)
Dornier 328 jets parked on an airport ramp.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 12/12/2025
This is the best broth I've ever made. So much stuff in it, but the highlights are miso, shoyu, wakame, and piri piri.
Noodles in a bowl of broth
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 05/12/2025
Launched a new SFX pack this month! Transition whooshes and whips in 5.1 surround sound. Get it 50% off this weekend with code 'WHOOSH25' (that's only $7.50). alterasound.gumroad.com/l/surroundtr...
Surround Transitions sound effects cover art with a 5.1 surround sound format tag.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 03/12/2025
Man I love @clppng.bsky.social tho
My top artist of 2025
TOP 0.4%
clipping.
I listened for 1,135 minutes, 32 times the average listener
YouTube Music
music.youtube.com/recap
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 03/12/2025
I really did not have much variety in my listening this year.
YouTube Music Recap with my top five artists being clipping, Miya Folick, Switch Angel, Joris de Man, and Seal.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 01/12/2025
Cyber Monday is now Cyborg Monday! Get 90% off of all synthetic and EMF Sound Effects today only with code 'CYBORG25'. alterasound.gumroad.com
Cover art for the Electric Textures, Low Frequency Elements, Synthetic Ambiance, and Synthetic Machines SFX Packs.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 29/11/2025
After spending time with your family, you probably need a Soothing Saturday (and Sunday). Today and tomorrow take 75% off all my outdoor ambiance SFX with code 'SOOTHE25'. alterasound.gumroad.com #SFX #sounddesign
Cover art for the following sound effects libraries; Arkansas Mountains and Valleys Spring Atmospheres, Hawaii Summer Atmospheres, High Plains Summer Atmospheres, and Midwest Municipal Park Atmospheres.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 28/11/2025
It's time for the obligatory Black Friday sale! Currently offering 50% off all products using code 'BLACKFRIDAY2025'. Check out my brand new libraries like Noisy Neighbours, EMF Motors, 3D SciFi Ambiance, and Magic Spells! alterasound.gumroad.com #SFX #sounddesign
Noisy Neighbours sound effects cover art featuring a crowd at a club.EMF Motors sound effects cover art featuring an electric motor.3D SciFi Ambiance sound effects cover art in 7.1.2 format.Magic Spells sound effects cover art featuring a magical book.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 27/11/2025
It's a holiday! What are you doing on Bluesky? If the answer is looking for free sound effects... it's your lucky day! Today only I'm giving away my Fall Drinks SFX Pack. Just add it to your cart and use code 'DRINKSONME'. alterasound.gumroad.com
Fall Drinks cover art with steaming mug
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 24/11/2025
Was recording insects at night and caught this weird interference with my Zoom H3-VR. Never heard anything like it before and not sure where it came from since I was in a very remote area.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 18/11/2025
Dear Katherine
Thank you for your recent application for a passport replacement. We are unable to process your request for the reason stated below:
• The change or correction you are requesting is not due to a Passport Services printing error, and the passport appears to have been properly issued in accordance with the applicable policies and regulations.
The original data printed in your passport was based on your biological sex at birth.
If you have any questions please contact the National Passport Information Center: 1-877-487-2778 (TTY/TDD: 1-888-874-7793).
For general passport information, please visit us on-line at travel.state.gov.
Sincerely,
Customer Service Department
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 17/11/2025
I got the pattern from a book called Snow Walker's Companion. It's got a ton of good outdoor winter info including about snowshoes.
A pair of yellow deerskin moccasins with white canvas gaiters sewn to them.
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 20/10/2025
Hit the button to say I wasn't interested in YouTube shorts... thanks for being honest I guess?
Notification saying "Shelf will be hidden for 0 days"
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Katie the Sound Lass 🏳️‍⚧️ @alterasound.com · 10/10/2025
The finished result.
Mashed potatoes with gravy and miso honey chicken.
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