(glitchy electronic music)
- Let's get into this one
and it's making sound effects in time for Halloween.
You wanna make creepy sound effects?
Halloween sound effects?
Bone crunching, blood curdling sound effects?
(man makes evil cackle sound)
Well, the first thing is to get yourself some reverb.
You've definitely gotta do that.
I use my Sound Craft Signature 12MTK.
It has reverb built in. Wow, it's amazing.
But we're gonna talk about using items
that you'll find around the house
to make some sound effects.
So what I'm going to actually do
is just hop in to Adobe Audition
and start the recording right now.
And we'll call this "Spooky SFX."
And the first thing, notice I've got spectral frequency
loaded up there as well.
So I can really see what's going on.
First item, and we're gonna grab orange items.
We wanna make the sound of stabbing.
So I have, look at that,
that is, I believe, a tangerine.
Okay? A tangerine.
And I'm gonna try not to stab myself as I do this,
and put it in front of the microphone.
This is really, really bad,
trying to do something like this.
And I'll remove the pop filter as well,
so we get a nice, clean stabbing sound, and...
(man makes stabbing sounds)
You might wanna get yourself an orange
if you want something better to stab.
But you get the idea.
Now,
crunching bones with carrots.
Yes, carrots, look.
I use, this is wobbly veg approved, this tutorial.
That's not the wobbliest carrot I've seen,
but anyway.
You wanna crunch a bone?
(carrot snaps)
And.
(carrot snaps)
But most importantly.
(man crunches carrot)
That's the second sound effect.
Next one is,
help.
And the final one requires my beautiful assistant,
Isabella, to do a blood curdling scream.
(Isabella screams)
You're a pro.
Okay, let's see what kind of stuff
we got together in the spectral frequency display
of Adobe Audition.
That's Isabella, that's me.
I'm just gonna trim this down.
So we've got just what we need here.
Just the basics.
And that's everything.
All right, let's have a listen,
and we'll see how we can process these sound effects
to make them sound even better.
So here's the kind of stabbing effect.
(stabbing effect plays)
Let's make that really loud and isolate that further.
So I'm gonna normalize this.
(stabbing effect plays)
That's some serious stabbing towards the end, isn't it?
Ooh!
And then we got
crunching the bones.
(bone sound effect plays)
And then of course.
(crunch sound effect plays)
That's like, super scary.
And again, we're gonna put some sound effects on here
to really spook them up then.
- [Recording Of Man] Help.
- That's like, a ghoul.
And this is Isabella.
Look at those frequencies in Isabella's scream
running right through spectral.
That's an insane kind of, wow.
It looks like a bunch of cars, like,
parked next to each other.
Weird stuff. Anyway.
Let's go into multi-track now,
and I'm just gonna use no template.
I'm gonna start with something new,
and I'm gonna call this "Creepy."
And we'll go and drag this in
and we'll split each sound effect onto a different track.
Like this.
So there's one, there's two.
There's "Help" and there's the scream.
And with "Help," I will need just a little bit
of extra help on that.
Because I'm gonna take it, I'm gonna normalize it
to minus three.
I'm gonna take a copy, go to a new audio file.
I'm gonna paste it.
And what I'll do is, let's go ahead
and insert, edit insert some silence.
Gonna do something that I've recommended
many times before, and that is to create
some reverse reverb on this.
Placing a marker so I know where I started.
Effects, reverse this.
Effects, reverb.
Studio reverb.
(reverb whisper plays)
And we can go much more than that.
(reverb whisper plays)
That's it, loads of decay there.
Okay.
So once we've got something that we like,
let's go and apply that reverb there.
So studio reverb, all the settings are good.
Apply, and then we'll go to effects,
and reverse it back.
So there are-
- [Man On Recording] Help. (reverb effect plays)
- So you can see here, that kind of "Help."
So let's go ahead and bring this in.
And again, we're sort of matching that marker up
with the start of the "Help" there.
So that's gonna sound really creepy.
- [Man On Recording] Help. (reverb effect plays)
- And then, if we go over to that track in particular
and we put on some more reverb,
just to really jazz it up.
This is a CPU intense reverb, let's try that.
- [Man On Recording] Help. (reverb effect plays)
- So we could use something like that,
or we can use "Ethereal," seems quite good.
- [Man On Recording] Help. (reverb effect plays)
- That's nice, that's like a spooky ghoul.
- [Man On Recording] Help. (reverb effect plays)
- And if you wanna keep it short,
you can cut off a little bit and just do a nice fade in
here so you get.
- [Man On Recording] Help. (reverb effect plays)
- So "Help," that sounds very ghoulish.
So that's one of four.
And then on this track, again,
reverb is gonna be your best friend.
I mean, most of the time, studio reverb will do the job.
And we can use something like a great hall.
(crunching sound effect plays with reverb)
And you can actually go ahead, and if you want,
you can increase the volume on some of these sound effects
to really make them pop.
(crunching sound effect plays with reverb)
And if you want, you can also double track.
If you find it's not powerful enough,
double track them by holding down alt,
or option on a mac, and shift to lock in time.
(crunching sound effect plays with reverb)
And you can really double up and get something
that pops out.
And if you really want to, as well,
you can triple track something.
This works really well,
really effectively with sound effects,
when you're just not getting what you need
from something, you can triple track it like this.
And what I'm actually gonna do is hold down shift,
move those onto their own tracks,
and then I'm gonna go ahead and pop on something like
maybe a bit of modulation on to one track,
and maybe on another track, I'll add on a little bit
of, let's go for a phaser or something.
Zed Leppelin is one of my favorites,
due to copyright reasons.
Left and right, and then let's see what we get.
Let's play.
It's thinking about it.
I think we might have blown the CPU.
(man laughs)
Yep, we've blown the CPU on that one.
It's not playing the game.
With too many tracks there to take into account.
Oh, there we go.
(snapping carrot sound effect plays with reverb)
There you go.
(snapping carrot sound effect plays with reverb)
That sounds really freaky, doesn't it?
And then this stabbing, what I'm gonna do
with the stabbing track is I'm just gonna really compress it
to really bring it out,
'cause you know, that's gonna just make it sound from,
you know, me getting a pair of scissors into a tangerine
to actually some serious damage being done.
Push the ratio right up.
You can probably go up to eight.
Use a limiter if needed, and let's play this back.
Again, a bit of delay on playback
because I'm using lots of CPU intensive effects.
(stabbing sound effect plays)
So we're gonna have to push that right up.
Hang on, let's push the make up gain on that right up
and have a listen to this.
And finally, we'll end on Isabella.
(stabbing tangerine sound effect plays)
That's really, really freaky.
And then finally, Isabella's gonna end it off
with a big scream.
And again, I might go and use modulation here
to really pop it out.
Along with, of course, a little bit of,
let's go for reverb.
And actually, I was thinking,
because I went into the special menu as well,
let's go for vocal reverb large.
But I'm also thinking about a tiny bit
of distortion on here, as well.
Only a tiny bit, and you can just whack this up
just a tiny bit over here.
And we get...
Let's play this.
And then we'll go back to the start
and we'll play everything.
It's really struggling, the CPU.
(Isabella scream sound effect plays)
Oh yeah, I like that. I like that.
Distortion and everything.
So from the start, we've got stabbing
a beautiful tangerine here,
which sounds like this.
Ready for it?
Come on, CPU. Do the job.
You know you can keep up.
(stabbing tangerine sound effect plays)
(man laughs)
Then crunching bones.
(carrot crunching sound effect plays)
With a carrot.
A ghoul.
(sound effect of man saying "Help" plays)
And a screaming witch.
(Isabella scream sound effect plays)
Screaming witch.
And that is exactly how you make
those crazy sound effects playing underneath me,
with house hold items and just people you can grab
around your house.
I thoroughly encourage you to do it.
Go and create some scary effects for Halloween
and have fun while you're doing it.
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