- Many of the things I did sounded absolutely horrible.
- Yes, there's going to be
(toilet flushes)
stormy weather.
- So he gave me an idea
to use the five most horrible sounds in the world
to make a jingle.
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Let's get into it,
and let's play some of these horrible sounds
that Isabella has selected for me.
She's my wonderful cohost-producer here at MRC.
And she's spent her hard-earned time
looking for really terrible sound effects.
So let's hop in and have a listen, inside Adobe Audition.
I've got sound one, two, three, and four, and five.
And what I'm gonna do to just give myself a little hint
as to what might be coming,
I'm gonna switch on spectral frequency display,
which shows me some of the frequencies to expect.
Now we'll play sound number one and see what happens.
(computer screeches) Oh,
(computer screeches) ugh!
(computer screeches) Ho ho ho ho!
I absolutely hate it.
At dinnertime, I've got two young kids,
and whenever something is scraped against a plate,
I'm assuming that is a knife or a fork
being scraped against the china plate.
Hey, I might be totally wrong.
There is nothing worse than that happening,
especially when you're at a really nice dinner
and the lights are down low,
and you're trying to be all romantic,
and you get the idea.
That is just, that's,
(computer screeches) Oh!
(computer screeches)
Ah.
Okay, that's scratching the inside of my ears out.
Sound number two is gonna be,
(baby cries)
Aww.
It's a blast from the past.
(crying continues)
Oh dear.
(laughs) Yeah, yeah,
I think I'll have to stop it right there
because that kind of brings out the immediate instinct in me
that I need to run somewhere
and do something really quick.
Beautiful sound as it is.
Yes, I can understand why it might make it
into a list of annoying sounds,
because your body goes into emergency mode
and you're suddenly stressed and you're like,
I need to do something, I need to help.
I need to be there right now.
Yes, very interesting sound,
unmistakable sound of a baby crying there.
That's sound number two.
How am I gonna use that in a jingle?
I have no idea.
Okay, let's go into sound number three.
Oh, now this is interesting.
Look at the spectral frequency display here.
So we've got like a line going right through
at just above three kilohertz,
and another one at 10 kilohertz.
That's gonna be a piercing kind of sound,
piercing two-tone sound.
Let's play sound number three
in the world's most horrible sounds,
and see what we get.
(drill whirs)
Oh, no, it's the dentist drill!
Oh, oh.
Oh, stop it, make it stop.
And I'm a guy who has a few fillings,
and occasionally I've had pain in my teeth,
and there is nothing worse than pain in my teeth.
As far as I'm concerned,
I can't imagine anything worse
than having a tooth that consistently hurts,
sitting in a dentist's chair and having it fixed, however,
does have some positive connotations
but I prefer not to think too deeply
about that sound in here again.
My goodness me.
Okay, sound four.
(computer screeches) Oh, what was,
what on earth was that?
Let's just listen again.
(computer screeches)
Is that a vacuum cleaner gone wrong or something?
There's some high pitch sounds in there,
we can see in spectral.
(computer screeches) Ow.
(computer screeches)
Is it microphone feedback?
Isabella, I've got no idea.
(computer screeches)
That sounds like microphone feedback.
You know, when you're on stage and the mic's turned up,
and the speakers are turned up too loud
and the mic feeds back and it's like,
woo, like that.
But it's a bit too high-pitched to be that.
Let me know when the comments down below
if you know what this sound is,
(computer screeches)
I actually have no idea.
(computer screeches)
Anyway, sound number four.
I wonder how I'll use that.
And then finally, we'll end up with sound five
in the world's most horrible sounds.
Hmm.
(man retching)
Oh seriously?
(retching continues)
Seriously?
(retching continues)
I think I'm actually lost for words there.
I just, and that's gonna be turned into a jingle.
Hmm, okay.
Yeah, that's not a nice sound at all.
(man retches)
I mean, seriously, Isabella,
you wanted to find the five most horrible sounds,
you've done it.
Okay.
Let's try and turn those five sounds into a jingle.
How am I gonna do this?
I have no idea.
Let's open up a multi-track in Adobe Audition.
We'll use my presets.
We may as well, Music Radio Creative presets.
Makes your audio sound good.
Make your bad audio good.
That's gonna help, isn't it.
And we'll call this "Horrible jingle [BAD]."
Okay, here we are,
and I'm gonna go into a view
where I can start putting in the voiceover.
Now we did have a voiceover recorded for us by Lawrence,
one of our Music Radio Creative voiceover artists.
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
- [Mike] Oh yeah.
- [Lawrence] Here's the world's worst radio station,
Bad FM.
- Okay, so I got what I need there,
and I'm gonna take another track here,
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
- [Mike] And I'm gonna put that down in the chorus.
So I'm gonna start working on how the voice might sound.
Let's just zoom in a little bit,
switch off the record modules there
so we can really zoom in on this.
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
- [Mike] Okay, we just need to sync that up,
because I've got a little idea for this.
Actually, I'm gonna put it into the pitcher.
Let's see if I can just time stretch
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
- [Mike] Okay, now I'm gonna do a pitch shift on that
to make it really sort of weird and strange.
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
- [Mike] Okay. That kind of wraps it around.
Now we'll start to get some of those sound effects in.
I definitely wanna use sound effect four,
the microphone feedback or whatever it is, near the end,
'cause that's nice punctuation.
I don't know whether to go from being sick
to having a baby, or the other way around.
This is just so wrong and so bad.
This is challenging me to my very extremes.
Let's just take the first.
No, actually let's take the first being sick thing,
and let's put the last bit at the end,
and let's pitch shift it at the end of Bad FM.
I've got an idea there.
Sound two, oh, that was the baby, wasn't it?
(baby cries)
Yes, we'll use that somehow.
And sound number one.
Have we got all the sounds now?
We've got sound five, sound four, sound one,
sound two, and sound three.
What was that?
Well, that was the dentist drill, wasn't it?
Okay. Gosh.
All right.
Let's just move that voiceover
out of the way for the moment
and see what we've got so far.
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
- [Mike] Okay, we can't hear that throwing up at the moment.
Thank goodness.
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
- [Mike] Oh no, hang on.
That's because I haven't put it in the right place.
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
- That's not really shining through there, is it?
Maybe we need,
actually, I know we're gonna use the baby crying.
(baby cries)
That's actually perfect.
We'll take that exact clip there.
And we'll use that as a punctuation mark
between "polluting your ears" and the next tagline.
So we've got something like this.
Let's, for the moment, remove the sick,
- [Lawrence] Polluting your Ears.
(baby cries)
- Okay, just need to turn that clip up a bit there,
and put it there and get these all
out the way for the moment.
We don't need those.
So we've got,
- [Lawrence] ears. (baby cries)
Here's the world's worst radio station.
- [Mike] We're gonna give some space in this jingle
to allow it to breathe, so,
- [Lawrence] Here's the world's worst radio station.
Bad FM,
radio station, Bad FM.
- [Mike] Now, you know what,
I'm gonna actually pitch this a bit,
so it doesn't sound so harsh.
- [Lawrence] radio station.
- Yeah, we can actually pitch that.
- [Lawrence] radio station, Bad FM.
- [Mike] That's actually,
- [Lawrence] radio station,
- [Mike] That's quite a nice punctuation bit, isn't it?
Let's move this out and see what we got.
So we've got,
- [Lawrence] Polluting your Ears.
(baby cries)
Here's the world's worst radio station,
Bad FM.
- [Mike] (laughs) I love the throwing up sound at the end.
Sounds good.
I wonder if I can pitch that up at the end or down?
Let's see if it's gonna sound good up or down.
(man retches)
That's ace, I love that.
It's like turning into some weird kind of pixie monster.
So we got this.
What else have we got?
(drill whirs)
Oh yes, we've got the scraping, and the dentist drill.
So let's bring those in at the start,
and see if we can use them somehow.
So I think I'm gonna need to just
make that a bit louder there,
and move this right to the start.
Let's see how it sounds now.
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
(baby cries)
- No, we're not really hearing those sounds, are we?
I think what we might need to do here is,
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
(baby cries)
Here's the world's worst radio station.
- [Mike] Okay, we're losing the audio a bit there.
So let's keep the,
(baby cries)
- [Lawrence] Here's the world's,
- [Mike] Oh, that's perfect.
I'm loving that.
Let's listen to what we've got now.
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
- [Mike] Oh, it goes "mm-hm" at the start.
That's quite cool.
Let's move this to the start as well, so,
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
- [Mike] See if we can maybe put that down there.
Let's put Neko on it.
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
(baby cries)
Here's the world's worst radio station.
Bad FM.
- [Mike] Okay, I'm also gonna pitch the start of that,
'cause that's just too harsh for my ears.
- [Lawrence] Radio station, Bad FM.
Station, Bad FM.
- [Mike] And then I'm gonna take this
and put this in another track.
Let's actually zoom out a little bit
so we can see what we're doing.
Let's move this to the flanger track.
(drill whirs)
- [Lawrence] Here's the world's worst radio station, Bad FM.
- And then I think I might just
zoom in on this and stutter the "Bad FM."
So we've got this, and let's stutter it a few times.
So we've got like a nice little outro here for this jingle.
Here we go.
- [Lawrence] B-b-b-bad FM.
- [Mike] And then I think just to round it off,
we're gonna need some reverb on a couple of tracks up here.
So let's see if I can zoom in on these and get some reverb,
maybe reverb on the baby crying,
and these sound effects here.
Now I think if I go into bus mode
and have a look at the,
where are we here, the female voice,
let's switch on studio reverb there,
and we'll also do it,
let's actually go back to the previous view I was on.
There we go.
- [Lawrence] Your ears. (baby cries)
Here's the world's worst radio.
- [Mike] And I'm actually gonna put a reverb
directly on the pitch shifter track as well,
but a studio reverb.
And we'll make that a vocal reverb, medium.
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
(baby cries)
- Here's the world's worst radio station, Bad FM.
(man retches)
- [Mike] Perfect, and the reverb at the end
just seals the deal.
Just gonna move this slightly forward.
- [Lawrence] Radio station, Bad FM.
- [Mike] No, maybe it needs to go a little late.
- [Lawrence] Radio station, Bad FM.
- [Mike] And there you go.
All I can say is,
using the five most horrible sounds in the world,
and they really do sound dramatically terrible
when they're piercing through my ears
in my wonderful headphones all the time,
here is the world's most horrible jingle.
- [Lawrence] Polluting your ears.
(baby cries)
Here's the world's worst radio station, Bad FM.
(man retches)
- [Mike] Let me know what you think
in the comments down below.
Okay then, that's basically it
from the weather studios, and now, goodbye.
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