Questions tagged [sound-effects]
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How do I make the dubsteb like killswitch syncopated sound I hear this effect a lot with vocaloid music and in live DJ stuff?
In dubsteb and japanese vocaloid(tm by yamaha) music I hear this effect where the sound is like repeated at faster rates or cut out as if a killswitch. Is there a way to do this with keypresses like ...
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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 anyone help identify this sound? [closed]
Also, the given clues are - CUSTOM, SHIRT, AND SPACE NEEDLE.
YOUR HELP IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED AND IT WILL BE.
(P.s it is not sandpaper or a marker being used on cardboard)
https://instaud.io/...
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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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Recording A Lot Short Audio Clips
Just a heads up: I have 0 audio experience.
So I'm working on a project where I need a number of short audio clips. Like, a lot. I was thinking that it would be tedious to create a new file, record, ...
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How to recreate this synth?
Three months ago I asked a similar question here (How can I recreate this sound?)
and then I tried using that preset which seems similar but I think that something is missing...Now I found this on ...
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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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Footstep sounds database
I am searching for an annotated and free database of footstep sounds (both foley and real recordings). Is there anyone who could suggest where I can get it?
I am particularly interested in files where ...
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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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weird distortion / noise cancelling effect you get sometimes with bad headphone cables [duplicate]
I am a sound artist trying to reproduce a certain sound. Sometimes you have a bad headphone cable that seems to filter the signal, usually taking out the highs, but also creates a peculiar noise ...
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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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Sound in the chorus of 'Spectrum' by TRCNG
There is a sound at 1:05,1:17,2:19,2:32,3:08 and 3:20 of the song called 'Spectrum' by TRCNG and I am fascinated by it. What is it and how can I use it?
https://open.spotify.com/track/...
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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).
I ...
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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 ...
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Frequency modulation with sound instead of radio waves
I would like to be able to hear a simulation of what the actual radio waves sound like, should I be able to hear them directly. I understand the math of frequency modulation, and am willing to make ...
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Is it possible to fake decimation with FM?
Decimation, also known as sampling rate reduction is a creative effect that creates harsh aliasing, by "resampling" audio signal without an anti-alias filter. It works by performing sample-and-hold, ...
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How can I use one sound to filter another sound?
Imagine I have two sounds:
Sound A is a very saturated, dynamically high and flat sound. Like a distorted guitar.
Sound B is very dynamically complex, such as a vocal line.
Is there any way for me ...
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Trying to re-create the New York Transit Authority Bass sound on FL Sudio 12
I'm trying to re-create the New york transity autority bass sound. IT can be heard here.
It sounds very simple but I'm new to creating sounds in FL Studio. Any help ...
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How to get rid of sharp ticks/clicks when amplifying sound
I am amplifying an audio file frame-by-frame via the following algorithm:
Find maximum value among all the samples in a frame
Find the amplification factor to make the maximum value equal to 0 dB
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How to reproduce these sounds (Rick and Morty, and Castlevania)
I'm absolutely new to this field.
I'm building a laser harp, and I'm choosing the sound that the midi output will have.
There are two sounds I'd absolutely like to reproduce in a software like FL ...
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Suggestions on designing the sound of an animated skeleton?
For an animation project I am doing the sound design for a stop motion animation, where there features a animated dog skeleton. I'm curious as to how one would go about try to designing the sounds of ...
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Sound Effect Used in Dubbing Foreign Movies/ Translation
In many of the dubbed tv episodes of discovery channel and Nat Geo, the voice of the language of the speaker is converted but the sound seems to be the same.
I have seen this in even dubbed movies. ...
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How do I make whispering in ear sound convincing?
I made a mono recording of whispered speech and I'm trying to make it sound like someone is whispering right into your ear. I work in Live 9 using mostly the native effects and some free VSTs. The ...
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Why does everyone use the same dolphin sound effect?
From Zoo Tycoon (Microsoft) to Plants Vs Zombies (Pop Cap) to Inside Out (Disney), when there's a dolphin involved, it always comes with this sound effect:
What would ...
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Name of effect and mathematical underpinnings
I am studying computational mathematics and so we often deal with sound manipulation algorithms.
As this study has piqued my interest in the subject I was wondering how to go about learning some of ...
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What type of sound is this? How can I make something simmilar?
I am working on a game project and I began searching for sounds. I stumbled upon one that sounds really good to me and I want to create something similar. Any ideas how to do it?
The sound: http://...
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How to recreate the sustain pedal effect on a mp3 sound font?
I'm creating my own midi player, so when I press c4 on my midi keyboard it goes into a sound bank (mp3 files) selects the c4.mp3 and plays it. If I release the note it stops, it also stops if c4.mp3 ...
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looking for sound effect appearing in recent pokemon episode
I am looking for a sound effect used in the Pokemon episode Cloudy Fate Bright Future, it's like a strange zappy rish sound effect.
In the video, it appears from 0:...
