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What does 100Hz 12dB per octave mean?
There are three parameters of this filter that are described in the phrase "100 Hz 12 dB per octave low pass filter". I'll cover them in reverse order.
Low pass filter - This means the filter does ...
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Is there a thing to "cover electronic songs"?
(Hm, started my answer while this post was still in the Music-community ...)
I understand that you look for a kind of recipe or guideline to reproduce songs like this. When you go through the themes I ...
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How would you design the sound of a submersible propeller?
That cinematic soft "fwup-fwup-fwup" of a large sub prop element might nice with a low speed fabric-blade fan against upholstery. A small compressor with a long tube might be good for sustained bubble ...
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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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A quest to construct a bagpipe ensemble from one sound only
You're actually kind of hitting the laws of chaos theory.
One thousand pipers in a large space is chaotic [my feeling about bagpipes aside ;)
Each bagpipe has four simultaneous notes, three drones and ...
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How do I turn ordinary speech into something inaudible, in Adobe Audition? So it sounds a bit like mumble
Conversation can become indistinct due to several reasons:
It's quiet
There's much reflected sound (reverb) in the room
There are many voices talking at once
It's masked by a louder noise
Experiment ...
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How do I turn ordinary speech into something inaudible, in Adobe Audition? So it sounds a bit like mumble
I think that comprehensible speech consists of vowels and consonants put in some order. Killing one of the two will make something incomprehensible.
I would try to kill consonants to be more exact, ...
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Technically speaking, can all synths of a given type make identical sounds? Why or why not?
The basic fundamentals are equal on all FM synthesizers. (Not exactly:
most so-called FM synthesizers are Phase Modulation synths, which is strictly different from FM even if related). But different ...
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What does the term "pumping" mean to define a techno track?
Pumping is a technical term which (for the most part) describes the compression technique used.
Having said that, many people mess up this term with various ways, others with sidechain bass ...
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How would you design the sound of a submersible propeller?
I'm a big fan of the pitched down pool toys. I did a bunch of that stuff here. They aren't pitched down in the library though.
http://rabbitearsaudio.com/product/hydrophonic/
But @noisejockey is ...
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How would you design the sound of a submersible propeller?
What about not using a hydrophone, but just a contact mic instead? Since the sound transmission through water is not the frequency response you're seeking, perhaps using the drill or other electric ...
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How would you go about designing the sound of a jetpack?
I had a listen to jetpack videos online and it sounds like there's two types. On one you can hear a combination of turbine noise (pitched) and filtered noise (unpitched) while on the others there is ...
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Powered Amp placement in a smaller church setting
If you're running balanced line to the amp you can put it where you want.
If not, you need it near the mixer.
There's really no other consideration unless it's noisily fan-driven or you need a ...
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Stacked detuned voices sound different in Synthmaster compared to Serum
You need to turn on "FREE" (like in this picture). From the manual:
Free: Controls whether the oscillator waveform(s) start at a random phase, similar to free-running analog
synthesizer ...
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Is there a thing to "cover electronic songs"?
I wouldn't call doing this a "cover". Perhaps a "recreation". I don't think you'd be able to release it as your own; if it was truly a 99% match, it would probably be considered ...
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Modulating Ratio in FM8
Actually, you can.
If you use the Pitch Envelope, you can set it to loop (or use one of the "Loop" presets). Turn off Pitch Envelope modulation for all the ops except the one you want to modulate. ...
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Oldschool house orchestral hit sample
What you are looking for is an orchestral hit / orchestral pad.
Very popular throughout the 80's
Those sounds were mostly created using the Fairlight CMI.
I think ...
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Muffled snare/clap in dark house & techno
Sounds like you'd need to eq away most of the snare, save for the transient, add a little reverb, and compress.
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How would you design the sound of a submersible propeller?
There are these pool toy guns that are just long water cannon tubes, but hovering them at different depths in and out of the water and also just blowing the empty air tube into different tubs makes ...
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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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How should I mic my upright piano?
There are as many ways to mic a piano as there are sound engineers.
Using what you have, here are some ideas - this is not comprehensive, it's just to get you thinking outside the box.
With all of ...
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Processing clean audio to sound like degraded shortwave radio
Are you open to a paid solution that will save you a lot of time and last you a long time? Audio Ease Speakerphone has specific modules and presets that achieve what you're looking for, all in one ...
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What is a "forlorn"?
No, it isn't. Forlorn is a feeling. As a sound designer, you may need a sound which evokes a particular feeling. If Hans thinks that sound has a forlorn feeling, then he can name it what he likes. ...
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What distortions are present in this audio file?
It looks like two unbalanced signals have been added together by just joining the wires together. The + sides added have hit the power rail and become flattened. The - sides added have made an "...
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How do I take a song's music and convert into single notes for a looping 3D animation video
first time even visiting here, hope I can help in some way.
I first would like to clarify the meaning of a "beat".
I think for most people here, a beat would first refer to the rhythmical ...
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Why would you pan the same sound both left and right?
This is because one stereo separated super saw (6-9 voices) will have the same phase drift in both the speakers.
However, when layering the sound with itself and pan one to the left and one to the ...
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What are some good in-depth resources for learning Sound Design?
To fully understand this subject takes years of learning and experience. You have to start at the beginning. My advice would be to find good books and study these subjects:
Read this book by Martin ...
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Meteor sound Design
I've always used things like jet engines and thunder from libraries and a mish mash of other odds and sods. Another trick I tried was to compress a sound until it distorts the converter, (you need to ...
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Which pluck is used in Cheap Thrills?
It also depends on what DAW you use.
In FL studio, you can try with Fruity DX10.
In Ableton, you can search pluck sound from top search box.
To make it sounds similar as Cheap Thrills pluck, you ...
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