Questions tagged [sound-effects]
For questions about the design, creation, development and implementation of sound effects in the various media.
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What do do with my Digital Juice Sound FX Library (v1-4)?
I have the entire Digital Juice Sound FX Library and I work on a MAC, which means the old Juicer software that managed the sound effects library does not work.
I would like to rip the sounds off the ...
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What is the name of this sound effect?
I've been having a lot of trouble finding the name of this sound effect. Please someone let me know the name.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PwibUOdPagNqzOotjs37hUrR3NSbBOL0/view?usp=sharing
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Sound effects for marble run animation?
I've got a wooden marble run animation (made in Blender), but am struggling to find some good SFX for the sound design. Has anyone come across a good collection? Rolling balls on wood, around corners, ...
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How can I make my friend's electric violin sound even more electric (almost like a synth)? (example sound provided)
I have a friend who owns a Yamaha YEV-5 5-string electric violin.
Example unedited sound here:
He wants to figure out the effects to make it sound practically synth-like,...
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help identifying this scream/yell sfx
This is such a shot in the dark, I found it somewhere, I don't remember where tho and it had some music over it which I was able to split using some AI website. I want to find the clean version of it.
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Demo Reel feedback for student
I put together a short demo reel to submit while I am applying for internships, and was hoping that some of you wonderful folks could possibly give some feedback. I have lots of music recording ...
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Need Help Creating Griffin Howling Sound
I'm currently working on my RPG game, and I'm trying to design a unique sound for the griffin's howl. I have a specific sound in mind, but I'm having trouble finding good references for it. Can anyone ...
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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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Your sound library recommendations
Hey guys, searched the forum and noticed we still don´t have a thread that gathers up the very best from sound libraries to a single place accompanied by your recommendation and brief explanation why ...
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How is this granular, bubbly effect achieved?
What are some techniques that have been used to create the sounds at these timecodes?
The audio in question:
Timecodes:
0'04 to 0'05
1'48
2'07 (beneath the thunder -- is this the same?)
I'm referring ...
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How is the recorded sound of a galloping horse so much different from a trot or a canter?
I recently started getting interested in equestrianism after going on my first-ever horse-drawn carriage ride for the winter holiday season. In that ride, the horse was doing a characteristic trot and ...
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How do I extend the duration of a Waveform in Adobe Audition?
I have a waveform that is about 2 seconds long and I would like to extend its length by about 1 second to add an echo effect at the end of the original clip. How do I extend the duration of the ...
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Can this sound be created without electronic means?
I'm currently developing a game for which I'll need quite a few sound effects. I found Pixabay to attempt to get royalty free sounds, but although some are great, I'm not quite happy with all and ...
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How to make gunfire like in Cave arcade shmups?
I am very new to sound design and have been struggling to create gunfire sounds for my arcade-style shmup which emulates classics in the genre (for example, any Cave game).
I have ripped examples from ...
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How to remove robotic sound from fully isolated vocals?
I have some isolated audio of some dialogue, and there is a slightly robotic sound to the person speaking that I'm looking to get rid of, but no matter what I try I can't seem to get rid of it. Here's ...
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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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Glamdring sound effect
I would like to know if you have any tips to recreate the sound when Gandalf takes Glamdring (the sword at 2:17)?
Or if you have a similar resource to share?
Thank you.
Regards, Samih.
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How do I turn ordinary speech into something inaudible, in Adobe Audition? So it sounds a bit like mumble
Doing sound design for an explainer, with lots of character animation.
I have kids and adults that needs to mumble. It's a serious subject, so it can't be too cartoony.
I have some speaks and yells ...
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Good portal / app / technique to reduce ambient sound
I have an audio that I would like to reduce ambient noise, it is an interview recorded with a mobile, just recording, and even I get to hear voices, I can not understand at all. The recording for the ...
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What distortions are present in this audio file?
I have the following audio file : https://vocaroo.com/1nF67OiFA9hm
I'd like to know what kind of distortions are present so that I can reproduce those on other "clean" speech.
Thanks
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M/S Stereo Mic for field recording/SFX
I'm looking for a good quality stereo mic for field recording, gathering samples for heavy manipulation later on in music production, including ambience and spot fx. I'm leaning toward M/S stereo ...
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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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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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How do I recreate this sound (in Ableton)?
I've been trying to recreate this sound from a song I made when I was quite young. I used GarageBand for this, not Ableton, but due to the advanced level of Ableton I thought I'd still be able to ...
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What software or service should I use for indexing my massive sound effects libraries?
I am looking for a software or service to index/search similar to soundminer, but simpler (just metadata indexing/search with automatic indexing of new content).
At this point, we simply search for ...
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How do I add a growl to an audio file of me speaking?
I'm trying to use Audacity to make a "voice of God" sound with an audio file of me reading some sentence. I've already added the following effects:
Echo
Delay time (seconds): 0.25
Decay ...
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Installing Muse Plugins Fx On Audacity [closed]
I want to install the Muse Hub plugin suite specifically for noise filtering and other real time effects, but as a beginner I can't really figure it out and I didn't find any useful tutorials that ...
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Network storage for SFX?
Hi, here's the thing. We've got three editing stations(Mac Pro). At each of them there's a Soundminer V4Pro, we haven't got the server edition. Currenlty our database consists of over 1 TB SFX. They'...
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What is a "forlorn"?
In Zebra plugin, a well-known synthesizer, there is a version with Hans Zimmer's custom presets. In this particular version of Zebra, there is a preset called "Hans Forlorn" which is a ...
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A quest to construct a bagpipe ensemble from one sound only
First of all, I would like to point out:
I do not have any means to record real instruments.
I only work with midi, samples and plugins (which includes nice ones like spitfire).
I just have a ...
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Processing clean audio to sound like degraded shortwave radio
I'm trying to mimic the sound of a cold war era shortwave radio signal from halfway around the world.
I've identified a few things to get me close:
Bandpass to reduce frequency bands to a narrow ...
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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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Question on the music production of Atreides Anthem
The soundtrack [1] presents a sort of a anthem.
Concerning the music production of [1]: there is a moment in this music that is really something; very powerful, yet gentle. This moment starts at 6:54 ...
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What is your top 3 of most used types of sound-fx for Cartoon Sound Design?
Do you have experience in sound-design or sound-editing for Cartoon Sound Design? If so, what is your top 3 of most used types of sound-fx? (e.g.: whistles, twangs, bounces, boings, rattles, whooshes, ...
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I there a name for an effect that periodically fastens the signal?
Lets say that I take chunks of signal S at a frequency F and I apply curve C accelaration of each chunk indepently so that each chunk starts whith the original speed and then fastens up (or down). Isn'...
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Can anybody recognize this sound effect?
Im trying to find out what kind of soundeffect this is?
Does anybody recognizes it?
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What kind of sound effect was most likely used for the sleeping drawer in Sesame Street?
First of all, I hope this doesn't appear to look like a shopping list recommendation or anything. I am only asking to see if anyone is familiar with the sound, and whether it meant anything at all.
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Merging files recorded at different times (Adobe Audition)
I had to record the second part of my podcast after the first part was recorded. However, I noticed that the two parts sound differently (although recorded on the same computer with the same equipment)...
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What is the synth effect of the voice in 'Funkytown' by Lipps Inc?
I always listened to this song and the FX that the voice as in the verse always fascinated me. Now that I'm into producing and sound design I'm wondering how to obtain it.
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Creating a sweep by automating an oscillator's frequency
I'm looking into designing a kind of ambulance siren sound. How would you go about sweeping between 600Hz and 1500Hz, while having control over the curves (exponential, linear, etc)?
My thought was to ...
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Sound coming from behind using stereo field
Hey all,
I'm working on a sci-fi actiony flick right now, very low budget so mixing in surround is not an option. I have a scene where a robot with a jetpack is landing behind someone, off screen in ...
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What vocal effects does Far Caspian use?
I've been listening to Far Caspian for a while now, and how the vocals sound in their songs. It makes me want to try and imitate it myself in my own songs but I don't have any idea how to do it.
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What is the difference between reverb and resonance?
This is one definition I have found for resonance:
the reinforcement or prolongation of sound by reflection from a surface or by the synchronous vibration of a neighboring object.
But I basically ...
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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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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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Trying to identify a stock sound effect
There's a sound effect I've heard every now and again, mostly in videogames. I really like the sound of it and want a nice sample of it for potential future projects, and I'm reasonably sure that it's ...
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Mic with character, or transparent + DAW?
Condenser, small diaphragm microphones are known for transparent sound, while the large diaphragms often have an (appreciated) coloured sound. That is my understanding, correct me if I’m wrong.
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Looking for an email or contact for the Sound Collectors Club
Just as the title says. I am trying to find out some additional information about the Sound Collectors Club, but on the website there is not a single point of contact listed that I could find.
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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