- What's up, everybody?
Peter McKinnon here, and welcome back to yet another vlog,
tutorial, episode, I don't really know what this is.
Kinda just like a hybrid fun time
that we're gonna have together.
I've been meaning to make this video for so long now.
I'm super excited about it.
Because it's like when you have an idea,
and then you're like, yeah, I'm gonna do that.
I'll put that at the top of my list and then you know,
weeks and weeks go by and you're like,
no I'm gonna do it, I should probably do that like ne - .
It finally happened, I was finally able to do it,
and hook up with the person that I needed to
to make this happen, to bring it to you,
and I'm super excited.
So, I'm gonna just cut right to the chase.
I've always wanted to make a sound pack.
And for those of you who watch this channel and know me,
you know I'm obsessed with sound effects.
I love sound effects, I love sound design,
I love using them in my vlogs and my cinematic sequences,
in tutorials, just anything at all
that I can use to enhance my video,
be it that some kind of sound effect or
undertone or atmospheric undertone.
A hit, an impact, a whoosh,
a swoosh, a pop, a whip, anything.
I love them.
I have a huge library of sounds and there's
so many great ones out there.
But, going off the fact that,
I love making the sounds myself sometimes,
recently I've just been recording a lot of
random noises into my phone and using those,
but, the audio wasn't exactly how I wanted it.
I wanted to be able to record sounds,
then have someone who knows what they're doing,
digitally master and enhance those sounds.
Tweak them, warp them,
into actual sound effects people could use
in their videos.
That it was I did.
(laughing excitedly)
I'm so excited.
So, I met up with Andrew Wong,
who is an incredible YouTuber,
who makes movies about music and makes music videos,
and he's super talented.
I can't speak highly enough about the guy.
But he was the one that I wanted to record this with,
and use his skills to digitally master and
warp these files into things we could all use in
our videos and it happened.
I now have an official sound pack with 50 sounds,
whooshes, swooshes, impacts, sub drops,
helicopters, arctic wind, you name it.
And every single sound that you hear came from my mouth.
Here's a super fast example of a bunch of
them just thrown onto the timeline.
(various rapid sound effects)
(giggling happily)
That all came from me!
Instead of just making this the video and being like,
"Okay, see you later, hope you guys enjoy it, link below,"
I filmed a little bit of like the BTS
of Andrew and I actually making the sounds,
so that we can bring you guys into the studio and
you can watch me make ridiculous noises and,
spit into a microphone until we found something that
was useful and then watch Andrew actually manipulate these
sounds and make them into the sound pack that is
now available today.
(sighing)
As a quick example, look at this,
you take a drone shot right?
You drop it on the timeline, you might have some music,
looks like this.
(atmospheric new age music playing)
That's cool.
But then you throw some arctic wind in that to kind of
match the actual atmosphere of the drone shot.
(atmospheric new age music with wind blowing)
Looks a lot better.
Why don't we throw a chopper sound in there so that that
drone actually sounds like a helicopter flying.
(new age music with wind and helicopter sounds)
Not bad.
Let's throw a hit at the beginning so
that we have some kind of an impact when the
actual shot opens.
(bass hit)
(new age music with wind and helicopter sounds)
Now let's double up that hit and add another
gas-seeping hit when that shot opens,
and now it looks like this!
(enhanced bass hit)
(new age music with wind and helicopter sounds)
Now you have a full, complete shot
that just feels way more involved and full
than if you just had some random music behind it.
(atmospheric new age music playing)
And all those sounds you heard
came from my mouth.
(excited laughing)
I just can't even believe it.
Alright, check out the behind-the-scenes, here you go.
(whooshing sound)
- What's up?
- [Peter] Please state your name for the record.
- I'm Andrew Huang.
- [Peter] What do you do for a living?
- I make a bunch of weird music and videos about music.
- [Peter] I love it, you're on YouTube?
- I'm on YouTube all day.
(popping sound)
- [Peter] Right there, a little sound pop.
So, when I thought, it's time to talk about audio,
and sound effects, and make my own sound effects,
'cause you guys know, I love making sound effects,
who better, than to help me with this project,
than the man himself?
So, Andrew agreed to help me record all of my sound effects,
not all of them 'cause let's be honest,
there's some ridiculous ones, but most of them
so that I can actually turn them into usable sounds
in your videos to help with sound effects,
whooshes, swooshes -
Do you think it's actually possible?
Will people be able to use these?
- Oh yeah, totally.
Peter was doing this helicopter at lunch,
it was like, that just sounds like a small helicopter
sitting across from me at lunch.
Yeah, I think these'll be great.
- Okay, so, the plan is, he's gonna hook up
this, I don't even know what I'm pointing at,
by the way, this looks like
the International Space Station.
There are so many dials, and part of me
just wants to run and twist all of them,
and then I don't know what would happen,
maybe something awesome?
Probably not, but he's gonna set me up on this mic
and, it's gonna be ridiculous, it's gonna look ridiculous,
but this is kind of like, the behind-the-scenes look
of how we recorded this sound pack
that I'm gonna link below and I'm super pumped.
I'm also a little embarrassed 'cause it's just
kinda weird to sit in front of a microphone
and like, make sounds and spit into it and -
- Just be like -
(wet spitting sound)
- [Peter] Yeah, it's weird! Do you ever feel,
'cause you sing into a microphone,
that's my worst nightmare, I would never -
- I mean, yeah, that takes getting used to I guess,
but nah, at this point it's fine.
I think, though, sound effects are kinda wierder, right?
Like, lots of people sing, not everyone goes -
(whooshing noise)
While they're filming.
- Yeah, that's the thing, he was laughing at me earlier
'cause I was shooting bee-row while I'm shooting
what I want to be a transition in post, I'll be like -
(swooshing sound)
It just helps, it helps when I'm shooting to
make the sounds I wanna use in post, so I dunno.
I'm sure you guys do it too,
but let's get these mics on, check out a little bit
of the studio, I'll show you right now,
cue the 120, let's go.
(upbeat EDM music playing)
(microphone sound)
(swishing sound)
(music intensifies)
(music fades)
So what do I do? Do I just?
- Uh, yeah, get right in that mic, couple inches away,
and let's just do a couple tests on this
to get the levels, and -
(Peter laughing)
- This is so, this is so stupid.
(Andrew laughing)
- [Andrew] Give me like, what's your
loudest sound effect gonna be?
- It's gonna be like, a -
(loud tfoom sounds)
(loud swoosh sounds)
(loud pop sounds)
That'd probably be a loud one.
(swooshing sounds)
I failed that one, failed that one, yeah.
(swooshing sounds)
(Peter laughing)
Love it.
(fading, pulsing swooshing sounds)
I use those a lot, like a little whip.
I have one that sounds just like someone's got
a belt on a piece on vinyl and like, ripped it back
and it's like -
(pulsating whoosh sound)
And it sounds pretty interesting.
Or like, something flies by really fast,
throwing something, yeah.
(pulsating swoosh sound)
(woodpecker sound)
Oh, guys, I'm gonna pass out.
Literally I was just doing like, an atmospheric wind sound,
and then we just got into a fight scene,
and I'm feeling a little winded.
It was pretty good though right?
- It was pretty intense, you're just like,
making wind for thirty seconds I feel like.
Just going.
- This is hard work!
Whew, okay, we'll be back in a minute!
Alright so, punch sounds?
In like, a fight scene?
- [Andrew] I'm rolling.
- 'Kay.
(grunting, huffing sounds)
(Peter groans)
I'm gonna pass out!
(both laughing)
- [Andrew] You're like, actually putting in the energy
to fight a guy right here.
- I know man, I'm so out of shape!
(Peter laughing)
How long was that, like 20 minutes?
- I actually could pull it up right here.
(Peter laughing and mumbling incoherently)
You're at 17 minutes.
- [Peter] Seventeen minutes, how did I do?
- Not bad, great! I could not make some of those sounds,
I was impressed!
A solid whoosh is just like,
so useful and such a fun effect.
My favorite sound to watch you do
was filling up a glass of water -
(faint bubble popping sounds)
I can't even do it, and then the fight stuff was fun.
(punching sound)
- Like, what is the process now, what do we do now?
- So there's like, a few steps to editing these,
we're gonna chop down to just the useful noises,
we're gonna take out anything that we don't want,
and then we'll be left with, I don't -
I'm gonna estimate 30 to 40 really solid sounds
that we'll maybe whittle down to
'cause you don't want like, maybe 10 very similar whooshes?
And then we'll also try some stuff where we
process the sounds, maybe speed them up,
slow them down, put some different effects on them,
and just see how much we can twist them,
make them really cool.
But a lot of these will just work kinda raw, too.
- That's super cool.
But before we do any of that -
(bright upbeat music playing)
(grinding sound)
(liquid pouring sound)
Yes.
Alright, a little update, we're still at it.
- We're doing just basic effects,
but using them with pretty extreme settings,
so it's equalization that's increasing bass or treble,
or reducing bass and treble, and then reverb,
just like, adding echoes to these sounds
to get them real epic, for example -
(resonant bass boom sound)
Which, I don't even know if it's gonna come through on this.
- [Peter] Yeah, I know, I can play it in the vlog itself.
(echoing metallic whoosh)
That came from me!
That came from in here!
Play the wind, the arctic wind action.
(arctic wind sounds)
That's almost like, no effects added either,
maybe a little bit of an echo,
but that was just straight-up me.
Wind.
This is the best day ever!
- It's so, windy!
(Peter laughing)
- Yeah, let that payoff hang for like,
five to ten seconds so that whatever
slo-mo clip would be coming at the end there
would have time to like, play out,
so like, the real time to slo-mo,
that hit happens, and then the footage,
whatever people are shooting,
gets to play out over that like,
tail hang -
(low gravelly whoosh sound)
- That was cool!
You're a good producer!
I wouldn't have quite gotten there without you.
(Peter laughing)
- [Peter] Thank you, man.
(loud variegated pulsing sounds)
- Yeah.
- [Peter] Yes.
- That's huge!
- [Peter] Love it.
Still going, we're on to sub drops now,
making like, big, gnarly bass hits
to sound like a nuke just went off like, 20 miles, just-
(deep growling sound)
Super low, super awesome, begin like,
a dope trailer with your best drone shot with one of these.
(excited whooping)
So good!
Pro tip of Andrew.
- Yeah so we're getting into some sub sub frequencies here,
and if you've got some headphones or some nice monitors,
that is the way you should be experiencing these sounds.
If you're just listening to it on your laptop,
you're gonna like, miss out on the impact of some of these.
Like -
(deep resonant bass boom)
Of this room shaking, thunderous, bass.
(pop sounds)
And those pops.
(both laughing)
Those are way better in headphones.
(popping sound)
- [Peter] So that's a problem.
Oh, you know, should we tell them about?
- Yeah, yeah, why don't we tell them about the coffee idea?
- Coffee idea, okay. So, if you guys didn't know,
Andrew has this, is it a series that you have?
- I mean, I just do it a lot?
I make music with weird sounds.
- Super cool, so he'll go to like, New York City,
meet up with like, Sam Sheffer,
and make music with boosted boards, I'll insert a clip here.
The first time I saw that, I was like -
(Peter gasps)
Guys.
Music, with coffee.
- Yeah. We're gonna make it happen.
- [Peter] It's coming.
- As soon as we can, really.
- Yeah, we're looking at dates now,
but it's gonna be incredible.
He's gonna come to my place,
I'm gonna come back here,
look for that video coming soon.
Super pumped on that, but yeah.
Right when I saw that whole series,
I don't know, he doesn't call it a series,
but it's a series.
But the second I saw that, I was like,
this has to happen, reached out on Twitter,
and the first time we met,
actually, the first time we actually shook hands,
was onstage -
- At Buffer Festival.
- [Peter] When I was handing you an award.
(both laughing)
- This is a great little moment.
But yeah, I haven't seen you since then.
- [Peter] No, no, and I think you even said to me
when you were up -
you were like, you walked up onstage and you were like,
yo man, like, what's up? We should hang out soon,
and I was like, yeah, here's your award, say something!
- Now I have to give a little speech or something,
bye Peter!
- Super cool, so, yeah guys,
I had the most fun here, I want a sound studio.
This was absolutely incredible.
- Just like a little playground, for audio,
this is, you know, I love being here,
every day, doing what I do.
- Alright, it's time to go,
I've taken up enough of this guy's time.
Thanks again man!
- Thanks for coming over.
- [Peter] So amazing, loved it.
- See you soon.
- [Peter] Okay, bye.
(happy marimba music)
So that was it, guys, I hope you enjoyed watching
the behind-the-scenes.
It was super fun to make,
both in editing the behind-the-scenes
and actually making the sounds.
Special thank you to Andrew,
he's an incredible person,
I couldn't have done this without him so please,
go give him some love, check out his channel,
tell him I sent you, say hello,
I've left his links below and at the end.
You'll see his little subscribe card.
The dude is amazing, and he is, in part,
why we will now all benefit from these sound effects,
should you choose to go pick them up.
If you do, I really appreciate your support, it means a lot.
I've left the link below, they're in my digital store
where you can also find my lux and presets.
But guys, that is it, I'm super excited,
so hit that like button if you liked this video,
smash it, you know, 2018 style?
Subscribe if you aren't already, and, and,
I will see you in the next video,
which will be Monday.
(swoosh sound)
Peace!
(upbeat electronic music)