Questions tagged [sound-effects]
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How is a hiss removed “under the hood”?
What I mean is, not which app/option/button to use to remove a hissing sound, but how does the tool one uses to remove the hiss do that. Does it remove every low-volume noise? Does it break the sound ...
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How to match voice on a record to one hears?
As you all know, the voice one hears when s/he is speaking and the voice one hears from a record differs. There are many articles and videos explaning this phenomenon. What I'm wondering is how can I ...
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What is this explosion sound effect?
I am looking for that explosion sound effect used at 0:41 in that video:
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Is it possible to change the frequency of an audio?
If I record myself singing, can I change the frequency of the audio signal that is generated and listen to it at any frequency? If so, how can I do that? Is there any software available?
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How to replicate specific sound effect
so I would like to know how to replicate this specific sound effect that plays in this video. I would like to note that I am attempting to use Audacity to replicate said sound effect. The sound effect ...
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How do you get a muted guitar sound in FL Studio?
Can the palm-muted effect be added on a guitar loop that I previously made in FL Studio through a plugin?
For instance, is there a way to tweak the velocity of notes to create a muted guitar sound?
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How to create radio/static interference?
I have a scene with dialogue coming over a radio/telcom speaker... I want to introduce the sound effect of radio interference and static cutting in and out...
Any ideas on how to do this?
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Audacity and loop: Loop doesn't work properly upon exporting from Audacity
I've looped a gunfire sound on Audacity and it loops okay when playing in Audacity.
However when I export to wav or mp3 and play it, it doesn't properly loop.
This is also the case in the game engine ...
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Effect of sound waves striking an object
I am trying to understand the effect an acoustic wave has on an object. I have two speakers, one on top of another, and both emitting a Sine wave of 64Hz generated in MATLAB with a sampling rate of ...
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Build My Own Sound Effects Library to Meet SMPTE Specifications
I'd like to start build my own sound effects library from the ground up for the use in motion pictures and gaming. When building this library, is there a standard from SMPTE to meet? Are there better ...
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What is this strangre sound effect?
I need to find out what sound effect is this for a project and I can not identify it at all.
Any help is appreciated.
Here is the link to the sound: https://www.elephantandme.com/soundeffect.mp3
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How do I detect the sound files used in an audio file?
There is an audio file with a soundtrack, SFXs, and voice-overs. I have all of these included elements separately as original audio files.
I need to detect which file is used in what point (...
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Ventilator/Respirator foley sound
Trying to recreate this sound -
Tried a few things but had no luck. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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Can someone please tell me the names of these sound effects and where I can find them?
I found some sounds from the TV Show "Deal or No Deal" and I was wondering where I can find the full, clean versions of the sounds.
The sound when the contestant accepts the deal: https://send....
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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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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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Is it possible to record a short contained sound no longer than 60 milliseconds?
I wish to play a short sound in an app (60 Milliseconds is ideal), however I'm noticing glitches in the sound on the current clip I have made.
I'm wondering if these glitches have to do with any ...
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How is cinematic sound produced?
This could be a bit subjective, but I think broadly most people know what "cinematic sound" means. At least, in my mind, it is sound that:
Has extraordinary depth
Quite a bit of warmth
Richness and ...
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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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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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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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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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Can someone help me figure out this sound?
It is NOT a horse, donkey, elk, creaky door, yak call, pig, moose, a rubber chicken, antique car horn, coyote, rooster, or a elephant. Please help I have been struggling for a week!
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Super wet reverbed instrument into a vibrato pedal
I would like to send a long-tailed-reverbed signal (guitar/violin) into an analog vibrato pedal. I'm talking about a 10 seconds decay reverb (or longer), and a vibrato with a rate way under 1 Hz. The ...
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How did they do it ? Sound spacialisation at mixing - Daft Punk & Agnes Obel
Without being a sound engineer, I've always been impress by how real engineers manage to give a 3D feeling to a song. I've been wondering on how it is physically possible. Especially when I listen to ...
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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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How to make a sound like this?
I couldn't find how to make a sound like the one that starts at 0:58 :
Is there a plugin that enables how to do it or do you modify an instrument to do it?
Thanks!
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How to create voice distortion like this amazing TED Talk
In "Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality," Anil Seth's demo of the brain being able to understand a completely distorted audio clip was amazing.
(Just watch 60 seconds from this point ...
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80s VHS tracking effect
I'd like to grab all of the tracks in a particular project and modulate all of them so that it sounds like they are slowing down slightly and going out of tune. This is the effect that you'd hear back ...
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How to remove DC offset from normalized white noise?
I generated a 10 second audio file containing white noise, using SoX :
sox.exe -n witteruis0.wav synth 10 whitenoise
sox.exe witteruis0.wav -n stats
The resulting "witteruis0.wav" is more or less ...
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How to make low-tech microphone sound effects?
I'm an amateur singer, and I work with my band on some original songs.
I'm looking for a way to add some vocal "effects" to some portions of our songs. Naturally, if we ever record our songs ...
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Can you help identify this sound effect?
Can any of you help me identify this sound effect?
https://instaud.io/1GDq
You help is strongly appreciated.
Cheers!
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How to get this sound?
I wondered if you guys could help me to get this sound:
4:08 - 4:12
Btw I use Fl Studio 12.
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What technology/technique is used in this track?
Whenever I listen to this track, it feels like there is an additional sound applied to the singer's voice. The singer can sing very well, that's I know for sure, because I saw him live. By the way, in ...
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Specific violin sound effect often used in anime, when something heavy is revealed in a comic way
https://www.watchcartoononline.io/boku-no-hero-academia-season-2-episode-6-english-subbed
At 10:56 there is a violin sound effect that often can be heard in anime (and maybe other media, not sure).
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What is this screeching noise?
There is this sound commonly used in trap / rap beats where a screech is sometimes present in the background. It is usually an effect to help set the theme for a song. In the scenario, it is a more ...
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How to create a sci fi gun charging up sound effect
I'm trying to create a clunky sci fi gun that charges up before blasting someone to bits. I'm finding it difficult on how to create a charging sound effect! Any tips or tricks would be awesome!
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How to Play Audio in Realtime in LMMS?
Changing the tempo directly (globally) or via an automation track only affects the readout and doesn't change the actual tempo, which seems to default to 140 BPM.
Is there a way I can get it to play ...
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Garbling and distorting voice with (or without) sox
I want to get some sort of garbling effect over voice audio files. sox has many effects available, but I don't know how to get the desired result.
sox man page, listing available effects.
This is ...
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how to connect keyboard to harmonizer?
i have a yamaha p105 no MIDI out has USB TO HOST i thinking about a tc helicon harmony M for live gigs. Any suggestion on how to connect them without a laptop. the harmony has MIDI in
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How to design the sound of a Quadricopter Drone
I'm working on a short film where the protagonist is a Drone.
Do you have any idea of how to create the sound of a quadricopter drone?
I tried to use some real recording but the sound is too invasive....
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How can autotuners be smooth?
It seems like a lot of autotuners have some jaggedness in them, but what's more ideal is something like that glados voice from portal for characters. After preliminary autotuning, how can a voice be ...
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What is this sound? Some kind of LFO synth? Song: Heart of a Lion, Kid Cudi
I am wanting to create a sound like this one. It has something to do with LFOs with a degree of instability.
[Shows itself at 0:25-0:30 as it rises in pitch and does so again a few times throughout ...
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How to create missile sound effect?
Is there a specific method to create missile sound effect? What should i record and which plugin types should i use on it? Beyond the basics. Reverb, flanger maybe?
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Manufacturing the Sound of Water
i'm working on a piece of music/sound art in which i'm creating an artificial soundscape. my next task is to recreate the sound of running water and i'm having trouble coming up with things to record ...
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How to electronically make a song follow a metronome?
I know very little about sound engineering so forgive my ignorance.
I was wondering if it is possible, with some free software, to take a song that hasn't been recorded with metronome (id est, its ...
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Audio effect that adds a natural sounding vibrato to a vocal track
I'm looking for an audio effect (on Windows) to add a natural sounding vibrato to a vocal track which has virtually no vibrato.
I don't mean the singer didn't use much vibrato, I mean I have ...
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Sound Design Behind This Future Bass Lead
In the following song, it seems like the lead instrument is some sort of vocal or something. What would be a good way of replicating that sort of song using a synth or sampler etc? The lead enters at ...
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What does the term “pumping” mean to define a techno track?
This term is often used to define technical/sounds in a track especially in electronic music.
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Waves 360 bundle only works in stereo in Adobe Audition
My question: Why do the waves360 plugins work only in stereo mode in Adobe Audition CC? I add them to the 5.1 channels. I have a 5.1 speaker system for monitoring when mixing. Waves Um226 and s360 ...
