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What is the difference between foley and practical sound?
Film Soundtracks are made up of 3 components:
Dialogue
Sound Effects
Music
Each of these three components can be broken down into two distinct types:
Production
Post-Production
These types define ...
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How would YOU design the sound of fingernails on a floor?
For the sound of dog I actually normally just use a kind of heavy-duty gloves I've epoxy-glued paper-clips on. I was gonna try other things as well when it was still just gaffed on, like pieces of ...
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Water / Snow Movement
Usually the smaller more intimate sounds will provide the detail, so you'll have those larger, slower, heavier wave sounds as the body and you can provide movement and texture and detail with smaller ...
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Foley - Paper Burning Sound
You have some options. You can obviously burn a piece of paper, although that might pose a hazard if not contained. It's fairly simple to reproduce a sound like it, but not exactly like.
I would ...
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FOLEY TECHNIQUE: How to do squirrel running on a tree?
Never actually tried it, but my first thought was just fingernails* on actual tree bark. Maybe the stuff you can get from florists - I quickly Googled 'florist supplies tree bark' & got a bunch of ...
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How to create a sci fi gun charging up sound effect
Well, when I think of a "charging" sound, I instantly think of something increasing. Level, pitch, both maybe.
I would have a sustained sound, slowly increasing in pitch, maybe an exponentially ...
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Is Behringer C-1 mic good enough for foley recordings for the price?
To be honest any mic can do Foley, I've seen Foley done with an sm57 which is historically an instrument mic. Foley has much more to do with technique than what mic you are using, 80% of Foley is the ...
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young sound designer looking for feedback
I will give you some feedback!
I like long and constructive feedback so I will give that to you.
One of the things I really liked was that bottle smash, really good job on that sound effect. I also ...
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Sound Design: Creating The Sound of Life Around Death
There is no correct answer here, as is the case almost all of the time with questions about sound design. No rights, no wrongs, only different interpretations.
My interpretation of this particular ...
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Foley - Paper Burning Sound
Twist and crumble aluminum foil, plastic wrap or plastic bag very slowly so that it makes crackling sound with short transients. Not all wraps or bags work. Plastic bag might require some hard ...
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How to create a space shuttle take off sound effect?
Whenever I want to recreate a sound synthetically, I start by analyzing the envelopes, source, filter and modulations and effects.
The source will certainly be white noise since there isn't any tonal ...
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Tyre screech recreation
This is a nice one...
http://deauditievedienst.tumblr.com/post/42278000168/foley-trick-how-to-record-the-sound-of-screeching
It's from Arnoud Traa, a Sound Designer/Recordist from Amsterdam.
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How do you make a jumpscare sound effect?
Audio for jump scares is usually designed to support what is happening on the screen at the time. This means that, without more information, anything here will be abstract at best.
In making a horror ...
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How to make gunfire like in Cave arcade shmups?
I'm only going to tackle one aspect of this - I'm ignoring the implied 'how do I use a DAW' aspect, as it's well outside the remit of this stack.
The way you set this up could likely depend on the ...
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How can I make a mechanical cat purr?
I made a tutorial on how to make a cat purr with FL Studio, maybe it can help you
todo:
get a growl synth for the purr that is not heard constantly, chop the sound so ...
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Foley - Simulate light wind through trees
Some time ago I did it like Justin said, with a some branches and moving in circles.... Here is the sound I got (this is the raw sound without any process or edit)
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I ...
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Foley - Simulate light wind through trees
You could get some leaves and branches and moves them around, perhaps swinging a leafy branch or two gently near your mic. You could even blow eaves in a fan and take out all the lows of the fan, ...
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Foley Sounds for a swimming pool
I would try to get a plastic basin that can be filled with water. Fill it up outside and be ready to refill it. Get you mic(s) ready (not close enough to get splashed) and start recording.
I'd start ...
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Requesting tips - Sound/foley workshop without software
a box of sand
2 coconut shells
a white cabbage
a balloon
a pane of glass
a piece of expanded polystyrene
a side of ham [or bag of sand]
a hammer & a blunt chef's vegetable knife ...
hours of fun....
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Rode NT5 Or NT1A + scarlett solo setup for recording foley
Ask three people, get three answers. I'd go with the NT1A. The reason is that in order to record realistic versions of such noise, you want room/corridor acoustics to participate and that results in ...
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Rode NT5 Or NT1A + scarlett solo setup for recording foley
If your only need is foley, I'd highly recommend a Zoom H4n or Zoom H5/H6. They have incredibly detailed microphones and are sensitive to the quietest sounds. I use my H5 almost daily and it's worth ...
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Getting started with live foley work to movie picture in a small room
you need a fairly dead space to work in with pits containing various types of surface to walk on. Foley is comprised of various disciplines - walking, clothing and artifacts.
In order to be an ...
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Will shotgun microphones pickup sounds like birds chirping outside?
Would a shotgun microphone pick up bird sounds?
Yes, depending on how quiet it is otherwise and how close you are to the subjects (birds). Nature recordists more typically use parabolic dish ...
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How to record sounds with an XLR cable
A Shure SM57 is not very suitable for recording Foley sounds. A condenser microphone is much more typical to use for recording ambient and natural sounds and Foley/SFX (sound effects).
A "sleeper" ...
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How to record sounds with an XLR cable
You need a portable / field recorder with an XLR input in order to use the mic in the field, to record sounds. There are many different makes and models out there, discussed in many threads on this ...
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What to look for in a microphone/studio
These are really broad questions. In terms of a mic. At $50 your in the Chinese unbranded territory type of microphone and most (I would imagine) couldn't give you an opinion on one that would be ...
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Recording Tap Dance
A wireless lav on the dancer and Foley replacement are only two possible solutions. And probably not even the most commonly used solutions. Conventional micing techniques, and barrier ("PZM") ...
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How to make owl sounds
Sample the reference and pitch it down until it sounds like you could imitate it with your own voice. Record the imitation and pitch it up.
This trick works well for animals with higher voice than ...
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How to create a lightsaber sound true to the original method?
CRT monitors aren't too difficult to get hold of these days...just go down to a charity shop/thrift store/pawn shop and you should spot one somewhere along the line.
That being said, almost all ...
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How to create a lightsaber sound true to the original method?
Here are some possibilities:
Microwave oven
Tube amplifier
Induction stove
"Transformer Nest" (find as many small power supply transformers, chargers etc and create a pile where you orient them in a ...
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