Questions tagged [sound-design]
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Designing Sound Effects For Digital UI
I'm trying to get better sound design and I wanted to tackle the area of digital sounds for UI that you'd see in a sci-fi thriller or something like that. Something like the sounds at the beginning of ...
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isolating unique sound from two otherwise identical audios
I have two audios, one of which has an additional voice in it that I want to extract. I have tried noise reduction with the cleaner version as is suggested at https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/...
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Does ayasugi bori affect the sound in a musical instrument ? if so, how?
I hope I am posting this in the correct stack exchange,
I am currently researching on musical instruments, particularly the Erhu and Shamisen, and have come into 2 interesting constructs. I have ...
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How does sound pressure gets transformed into audio data when recorded on PC?
Based on some reading, here's my understanding of how sound recording works:
Microphone outputs a voltage based on sound pressure. The microphone voltage is amplified and the amplified voltage goes ...
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how to interpret the magnitude of FFT
In one of my project, I record an audio using a mic connected to a PC, and calculate the FFT using Python. I used PyAudio for the recording. Upon calculating the magnitude, I noticed that its range ...
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How to single out a sound
I have a track that I made with a synth patch that I've lost and am unable to recreate by ear. I read somewhere that it is possible to single out a sound if you have one track with the sound and one ...
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How do I recreate this detuned synth?
I've been looking to recreate this sound from All I Want by Rome In Silver for a long time and I can't figure it out, can anyone help? It's the detuned chords in the intro and that come in at the ...
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What do you differ to make something sound in front vs behind? [duplicate]
If a sound has two channels and you want to make it sound in front of someone in one instance and behind someone in another instance, what is the difference between the two sounds? Is it the stereo ...
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Sound source located in a room with opened door and listener is outside
This question has been bothering me for a while, so the situation is next: imagine that you have a person talking to you surrounded by four walls with an opened door and you are as a listener located ...
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Recreating Iconic Electric Zaps
I am working on some electricity zaps for a spell and have always wondered how these iconic zap sounds were made. I own some quality newer electricity libraries, but none of them have this zap sound ...
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Looking for a transition sound clip
I am creating a presentation that will be shown on a TV. I am looking for sound clip ideas that will be used for transition between sections of the presentation. For example a sound clip to transition ...
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making movie monster, need so advice about roars
so i'm in the middle of making a future monster movie, and i want to learn how to make a roar sound both powerful and terrifying. how would i go about doing that? are there any websites to produce ...
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Methods for decreasing exported .wav file size
I am working on sound project using Audacity.
Are there any methods for decreasing the exported .wav file size without damaging the sound quality? e.g. combining all track to a single one and then ...
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What are some sounds that indicate we are in a night scene?
I'm editing a night scene at the moment. It's set in a suburban location, in Australia and I'm looking for ideas on sounds I can lay into the tracks to heighten the sense of tension.
So far I ...
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New BM-800 Problems
I recently bought a BM-800 condenser microphone set and as i'm hooking it up, I want to be able to use my headphones with it, but the split USB input and output won't allow the mic to work in the ...
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What is the best microphone type for recording natural outdoor sounds?
I am currently working on a game, and I wanted to take on the challenge to record the sounds myself. I will need a lot of outdoor natural sounds, like flowing water, trees in wind or footsteps on dirt....
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Pitch shifting made my audio weird
So I added a pitch shifter to my audio, making it a lot deeper. But when I listened to it the balance between the left and right channel weren't pan center anymore. The left and right was constantly ...
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Car & Two Wheeler Simulator Sound
We are a small startup based out of India and are looking at making an ultra low cost but realistic Two wheeler and Car Simulator for Indian villages.
In our attempt, we are looking at providing ...
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Using Ableton, how can I replicate the synth used in this song?
Heads Will Roll by the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs features a synth that sounds like a mix of a number of instruments. Perhaps a stringed instrument or a wind instrument, among others.
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Programming Realistic Piano in DAW: Velocity of note
I want to make more mellow type piano...
i.e. hitting piano note with low velocity ...but in DAW, lowering velocity just affect volume to decrease and in real piano playing with low velocity, its more ...
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Microphone Array
I'm using 4 microphones to built a microphone array. To interface them with my PC (running Windows), I bought four USB sound cards and using a USB hub I connect them to my system. Is there any ...
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How to make a troll attack
So, I have a film I'm working on, and I have a fight between a troll and a couple normal sized humans. I have the humans down, but I'm stuck at the idea stage for the troll.
I have a lot of different ...
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How to design squeak and creak sounds of metal objects?
Are there valid guidelines to design squeak and creak sounds produced by metal objects?
Here are some examples:
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Are the speakers in a good position?
I use two 12 EV Live speaker EV Link in a 8 meter space to stage. Is this position is good for this room with height 3 meters and 50 people in this room?
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What is considered a 3d sound?
There is a person who makes sounds. I'm curious if this type of sound is considered a 3d sound. What defines a sound as 3d?
When was the first 3d sound made in music? Has it always been around?
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Recording internal Body sounds for a Soundinstallation
I've already searched the forum but couldn't find a solution to my problem yet.
I'm currently working on an installation for a sound art festival and would like to make my body sounds audible, i.e. ...
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Headset plugged into Yamaha piano and Laptop at same time. Does not have to be wireless
What audio cord/jacks do I need to enable use of Digital piano and lap top to 1 headset-does not have to be wireless right now
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software / plugin recommendation for creating sci-fi sound effects
I am relatively adept with serum synth creation and music production with Ableton, but i am also developing a 3D cartoon so i need to make unique sound effects for things like ray guns, ship engines, ...
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How to extract the data coming in sub 20hz Audio analog signal
I need to extract some data which is coming in Sub 20hz Audio Signal. Please advise how can I do this. As I am not Audio expert, so simply pointing for the devices or a readymade solution would help ...
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Converting -10dbm to dbu?
I know that -10dbm is supposed to be lesser than 4dbu. But somehow, the online converter I used to convert dbm to dbu showed the former to be 40dbu, which I believe cannot be the case. So, here's the ...
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How to make a gust of wind from a continuous wind record?
I have a nice continuous 30s wind record. From that clip, I would like to make something sounding like a sudden gust of wind.
I tried to simply play with the volume control around an interesting part ...
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DAW software that I can share between 2 computers?
Is there a DAW software I could use with 2 different computers and share it?
I will be doing a project for school but I will be recording instruments at home.
How could I work on the same project at ...
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Transient shaping of kicks and snare drums
I use compressor to get that transient for my kicks, snares...but think it as real..
A drummer hitting kick or snare.,,if the bpm of song is low then the transient will be less powerful as compared ...
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Sound of racing cars passing by at different velocities
I'm currently trying to generate the sound of racing cars passing by at different velocities from this single sound of a racing car passing by at a certain velocity:
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making a tree crack and creak and falling with sound synthesis
I'm have a good grasp of basic synthesis but need to make some sounds synthetically quite quickly for a project, and am not sure where to start
It is a the cracking and creaking as a tree or large ...
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What's the difference between pad and drone?
I'm learning how to program software synthesizer. I came across with these two types of patch described as "pad" and "drone". They sound somewhat similar for me.
Could someone explain what the ...
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Weapon Projectile Sound Design
There are a lot of great resources for weapon design, but I don''t often hear about projectile design--the sound of the laser, bullet, or shell moving through space. I'm working on military space ...
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Combining multiple Speakers Impedance - what is the preffered way?
I'm building a custom sound system using the HiFi Berry Amp2 which claims to [...] "work with all speakers or 4-8 Ohm impedance. It supports sample rates from 44.1-192kHz (16-32bit)." According to ...
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Setting up Mics, Mixer, Guitar and Camera
I am not sure if this is right place or not.
Me and my wife, we both, are like recording karaokes, and singing live.
Until now, we were enjoying with apps in mobile phone. But recently we thought we ...
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Why don't speakers sound as good as instruments
In audiophile communities you often see a crazy amount of tweaking and gear designed around sound, but I'm curious on a technical level, are there known reasons why speakers don't sound as good as a ...
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Military Weapon Sound Design from Abstract Sources
I'm working on a military sf game, and I'm running into some hurdles with Flak Cannon samples. I can hear that thudding, puffing mortar-like sound in my head, but I'm not quite sure how to achieve ...
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Is this a piano?
do you know how can I recreate this? It seems a piano.
https://www.facebook.com/kygoofficial/videos/886958051367329/
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How can I recreate this sound?
can you help me recreating this? (The sound starts 0:06 - 0:13)
https://www.facebook.com/kygoofficial/videos/1455768857819576/
Here's another example (The sound starts 0:00 - 0:05)
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Help recreate bass synth like KOOS, Drezo
I have a problem with recreating this bass sound. I think it's a sine wave with white noise and a bit of distortion. But all attempts to recreate this sound were unsuccessful :(
Can anyone help me do ...
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What would I need to vocode my voice with an animal sample?
I am relatively new to sound design and I have read quite abit about vocoding. Many people have said they like to vocode their voice with animal samples like pigs seals and lions. I have a few ...
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Need tiger growls and roars
I imagine this might be as easy as browsing sample libraries but I also may want to really thicken up the sound as it needs to be real intimidating.
Any ideas about layering or processing I could use ...
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How do I make this sound in Logic Pro?
I'm using Logic Pro X. I really like the keyboard sound in the melody that starts right at the beginning of this song:
. To be super clear, the first note of the bar ...
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What are the units of amplitude?
I'm using Audacity to edit some audio (I'm a novice). The sound amplitude is displayed from -1.0 to 1.0. What are the units of amplitude? Are they decibels (dB)?
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What does 100Hz 12dB per octave mean?
I have been trying to understand what 100Hz 12dB per octave means in a low pass filter. What does it really mean in full details? Any material can be of help.
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Is this phasing/modulation normal?
I'm just getting into sound design so excuse the wrong usage of terms. Here's the sound I designed in Massive:
It sounds really nice except that I would like it to be ...
