| 12-21-2005, 11:40 AM | #1 |
Challis, in your sticky you state everyone with a mic can make sound effects. I was just wondering, how would you make them. If I wanted to have like.. some cool burning effect without actually burning my house down. Or... some clashing of blades without actually having to buy blades. And.. how would you make looping SFX? |
| 12-21-2005, 11:47 AM | #2 |
good question, I'll try and answer it as best I can. You've got to try and be inventive and just see if you can get something that will work for what you want with a bit of tinkering. For the burning, I'd attempt to hold a match very close to your mic while it's burning. Not so close it burns it mind. That might sound a bit small and lame, so I'd run some bass boosting filters over it and maybe record it a couple of times and layer the sounds over one another to give the impression the fire is bigger than it was. For swords...hmm, got any knives at home? Clash them together, you might get something good out of that. Again, there might be some post production effects you could play with to beef these sounds up. As for looping SFX, this one's pretty tough. Basically, record for a good long while the thing that you want to use and then in post production try and find a section of it that loops seemlessly. I hope this helped, and thanks for the question! |
| 12-21-2005, 12:00 PM | #3 |
Ok, I think thisll help out ye. Thx What programs do you suggest for post-production? |
| 12-21-2005, 12:13 PM | #4 |
Ooh, this is always a tricky one... Well, I use Cool Edit Pro 2.0, I think it's an awesome program Adobe Audition is almost exactly the same as Cool Edit Pro Most soundcards come bundled with some basic audio editing software, that's a good option too Pro Tools is meant to be good, though I've never used it, and the good news is it's free http://www.digidesign.com/ptfree/ |