- The new Disney movie "Lightyear" is now out
and I'm super excited as Buzz is one
of my favorite Disney characters of all time.
I thought I'd get into the spirit
by creating some space sound effects,
lasers, pew pew, that kind of stuff.
Watch to the end to find out how you can download all
the effects I create in this video for free.
(text whooshing)
(logo chiming)
So I really got into the spirit
by building some Buzz Lightyear LEGO.
Actually, no, that's a lie.
My kids built the Buzz Lightyear LEGO.
So thanks, kids, for making a great video.
Here, you can see in Premiere,
I've already put together a scene
of Buzz like walking around,
getting attacked with laser guns, whoa.
Trying to contact the space computer,
and then this big space cyborg thingy trying to attack him.
But the spaceship takes off, knocks the cyborg out,
Buzz goes, "To infinity and beyond,"
and then the spaceship leaves like that.
So, oh, I thought I could actually
put a little fade at the end there,
so Control + Command + D.
Put a nice fadeout at the end there.
And look at how cool that looks.
It's very, very cinematic.
My filming skills are second to none.
Well, actually, no, let's talk about audio
'cause that's really where we're working.
And the first thing I did was create a laser sound effect.
Now to do this, you will need a Slinky spring,
kind of like this.
And then you kind of hold it like this next to a microphone.
Well, next to a microphone, actually,
I plugged into my mixer and I created pew pew sound effects.
So Slinky spring suspended from my desk,
really easy to make those sound effects.
And if I actually hop over to Audition
and bring in these slinky lasers,
you'll see here I've got some great samples,
(lasers firing)
that I can use in the Buzz Lightyear kind of movie.
So I'm definitely going to work on that.
I've also got some Izabela stuff,
so let's bring her in as well.
Here she is with her computer.
- [Izabela] Please record your last words.
- And, - Mission failure imminent.
- That's absolutely fantastic.
So we've got all of this.
We can put some effects on her.
And now, I'm gonna create a few Buzz voiceovers.
So let's call this Mike, Buzz.
And, of course, I'm going to go ahead
and do my best British Buzz Lightyear.
You ready for this?
Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
It's a bit loud, let's turn it down.
Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
To infinity and beyond.
Something like that, that'll do.
Okay, so let's erase all of this stuff that we don't need.
Have a little listen.
Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
And we can obviously go ahead
and put some sound effects on that
and make it sound really good and spacey,
and we'll get to that in a second.
So I'm gonna save that out now to my downloads folder.
So I've got that all there.
So everything is here, it's all ready to work with.
And now I'm just gonna head back to Premiere Pro briefly.
And I'm actually gonna edit this whole sequence
in Adobe Audition because it's gonna make it easier
for me to apply the effects
and really make the lasers sound smashing and amazing.
So we'll go to Edit up here
and we'll look for the option to Edit in Adobe Audition.
And we're gonna edit the sequence
and we'll just like, export this out as it is.
We'll click OK.
We'll create the audio track.
And then when we finish,
we'll take this sequence and bring it back to Premiere
so we can make the final mixdown of this.
So let's go ahead and drag in some stuff
that we're gonna be using.
So obviously, we've got the Buzz Lightyear thing here.
So we will, first of all, get some lasers
and then we'll bring these in on audio track one,
clicking OK to this.
And we've got.
(lasers firing)
Perfect.
This is exactly what we're looking for.
Lots of laser battles here.
And then, we've gotta kind of.
(lasers firing)
So right about there, we've got a change in scene.
So let's cut that there.
Now, what I'm gonna do with these lasers,
let's make sure I've actually got these lasers in
at the right place.
So we've got this guy coming in and then shooting away.
(lasers firing) That's perfect.
Now, I need a bit of background ambience.
And I didn't think to do this before,
but I'm actually gonna grab my microphone
and see if I can get this working
because what I want to do with this particular microphone
is I want to record some ambience of my computer fan.
I thought this would be quite good
for an overall space sound.
So let's record this now.
Okay.
Turn that up, hello?
(fan whirring)
Okay, there is a bit of fan.
That's literally my computer fan
that I'm filming, or recording, there.
And I'm actually going to cut this.
And what I'll do is I'll probably make a loop of this.
But what I'm actually going to do with this fan,
let's just grab that bit.
(fan whirring)
That's perfect.
So that's perfect for space ambiance.
So let's turn that microphone off now.
What I can actually do to make this sound even better
is I can go into Effects, Time and Pitch, Pitch Shifter,
and I can pitch this down a bit.
(fan whirring)
That's it, maybe even more.
(fan whirring)
So we got that.
(fan whirring)
That's the kind of background.
(fan whirring)
Background.
And we're gonna apply that as background ambience.
So I'm gonna actually save this as Space Effects.
Here we go.
Let's go ahead and pull this in on another audio track.
Let's actually create a brand new audio track here.
And we'll call this one Space Background.
So this will run through the whole movie.
Okay, so that's space background.
And to loop this over, I'm just gonna hold down the Alt key
and I'm gonna do some crossfades here
just so this is running through the whole of our Buzz movie
that I'm working these sound effects to.
And that should be about enough.
And then right about here,
we're gonna snap that to the end and fade that out.
So now, we've got space ambience.
(fan whirring)
We're gonna turn that down, it's probably too loud.
There we go.
And then we got the guy coming in and shooting the lasers.
(lasers firing)
And in order to make the lasers sound really good,
I'm actually going to add plenty of special effects
to this particular track.
Let's actually name this Lasers on audio track one.
And we'll go ahead and we'll add some track effects.
First of all, I'm gonna add some Filter and EQ,
Parametric Equalizer.
Actually, no, we'll use the FFT filter.
It's much easier to work with the FFT filter
on stuff like this.
And we'll go ahead and do some sound shaping.
So let's see. (fan whirring)
What we can do with those lasers.
(lasers firing)
A bit too much treble there.
So let's really work on bringing out those mid frequencies.
(lasers firing)
There we go, perfect.
So we've got. (lasers firing)
Now, we're also gonna need a bit of reverb, I feel, on this.
So let's throw some reverb in on this track.
We'll do some studio reverb and we'll do a medium drum play.
(lasers firing)
Make that a bit tighter
and we'll do a low frequency cut quite high.
(lasers firing)
More of the high frequencies there.
Let's see if I can bring in some bass on this.
(lasers firing)
Okay, and then I'm also gonna add in a bit
of a delay and echo as well.
So let's go in and put in an analog delay.
(lasers firing)
And we'll go for, Public Address is always a good one.
(lasers firing)
And we're also gonna add in some chorus to make that,
there we go, the default one.
(lasers firing) It's pretty good.
Let's turn the delay rate up.
(lasers firing)
And the feedback.
(lasers firing)
And the spread.
(lasers firing)
Oh, that's a bit too much.
(lasers firing)
Excellent, sounding nice in stereo.
And we'll also go in
and add in a final little bit of flanger.
Let's get some aural flanger
to give it a bit of a stereo sound effect.
(lasers firing)
That might be too much.
Let's try vocal flange.
(lasers firing)
No, I think that's actually too much.
Let's remove the flanger there.
So we've now got this.
(fan whirring)
We've got Buzz here.
(lasers firing)
And now this is the point where I'm going
to bring in the mission failure thing here.
So we've got.
- [Izabela] Mission failure imminent in three, two, one.
- And then on Izzy's voice here,
we're just gonna call this Computer, it's a computer track.
I'm gonna actually add in something
that's gonna make her sound robotic.
So we'll go for Modulation, Chorus again,
and we'll try some different choruses.
Let's try Project Nightmare.
- [Izabela] Mission failure imminent in three, two, one.
- Let's pull the modulation rate up.
- [Izabela] Mission failure imminent in three, two, one.
- There we go. That's quite cool.
Let's turn the modulation depth down a bit.
- [Izabela] Mission failure imminent in three, two, one.
Mission failure imminent in three, two, one.
- Okay, that's perfect.
Now we're getting over here. - [Izabela] One.
- Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
So we need to bring in Buzz here and put him on there.
So this is gonna be Buzz's sound.
Here we are. - [Izabela] One.
- [Mike] Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
- [Izabela] One.
- [Mike] Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
Now over here, I definitely need to hammer
Buzz's voice a little bit.
So let's use the FFT Filter again.
We're gonna go for On Hold EQ,
but we're just gonna drag this out a bit
so it's not so telephone-sounding.
- [Izabela] One.
- [Mike] Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
- [Izabela] One.
- Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
And we'll add a little bit of distortion
to that track as well.
So under Special, we're looking for Distortion
and we'll go for GreenRoom-Angus.
- [Izabela] One.
- [Mike] Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
Okay, a little bit loud.
So we'll just bring that down in the mix.
- [Izabela] One.
- [Mike] Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
There we go.
And we probably need some beeping.
So over here in the Waveform,
I'm gonna create a new thing called Beeps For Computer.
And we'll go and we'll do Effects, Generate, Tones,
and here.
(tone beeps)
Now we're gonna generate a sweeping tone
so I can use different frequencies.
We'll go up to about 2000 hertz
and we should have something at the end that sounds like,
let's make it five seconds in duration.
Something that sounds like this.
(tone beeps)
And then, in order to use that for a computer beep,
so like he's tapping away on a computer there,
I'm gonna put it in here
and I'm gonna take random parts of the tone
and just kind of copy and paste them like that.
So we can do a rough (imitates beeping)
and it'll all become clear what I'm doing in just a second.
Year to Star Command. (tone beeping)
Now, let's put that on another track.
Year to Star Command. (tone beeping)
So that's kind of ethereal, spacey kind of thing.
Let's actually bring this down a little bit in volume.
So if we can actually zoom in on all of these clips
and just bring them down a little bit
and maybe make it stereo by just panning left and right.
So let's pan left and right a little bit
so we've got a nice like, stereo computer sound.
Lightyear to Star Command. (tone beeping)
There we go.
And then we've got this one.
Command. (tone beeps)
The big cyborg that's doing like the nasty attack.
So we'll get, for this,
we will go ahead and bring in another sound.
Let's generate another tone here.
So Effects, Generate, Tones.
And for this, let's go for something like Out of Control.
(tone beeping)
What else have we got?
We've got Minus Major.
(tone beeping)
So we use this as a sweeping phaser to come in.
Grab that, let's make that,
let's save that as Cyborg, cyborg.
And we'll bring that now in.
So that's gonna go here and again we need this
to be quite subtle in terms of sound
so we'll have this a little bit lower.
(phaser firing)
Command.
(phaser firing)
And then we need a spaceship taking off.
So again, to generate that, I'm going to do Spaceship.
And I'm gonna generate some noise for this, Generate Noise.
And this is going to be White Noise.
(audio crackles)
Or maybe, actually, we could go.
(audio crackles)
Let's try gray noise, (audio crackles)
probably brown. (audio crackles)
That's what we need.
(audio crackles)
And then we need to pitch bend
that using Time And Pitch, Pitch Bender.
And we'll go for flying curves here
and we'll draw on a little pitch.
So we'll go for.
(audio crackles)
Let's see what we can actually do with this.
(audio crackles)
There we go, that's the kind
of sound effect I'm looking for.
So that like spaceship taking off.
So let's save that.
And this is gonna come in right about here near the end.
So let's place this on this track here
(audio crackles) (laser firing)
And then we've got to infinity and beyond.
So he's gonna say that here.
To infinity and beyond, and beyond.
Now we need to speed that up a little bit.
So let's use the adjustment of global clip stretch there.
To infinity and beyond.
And then probably what I want to do is,
I want to take this and reverse it for the final scene.
So let's place that into a new slot there
and we'll go to Effects and we'll go to Reverse.
And we'll now bring that untitled 10 in there,
and pull that onto that track there.
I think he's just a little bit loud there, Buzz,
so we're gonna turn that down
and then fade out at the end.
So we've got something now
that's starting to look like this.
And we can probably bring in a few more,
actually, we got one more thing
and that's Izabela, here,
and we're gonna have her saying.
(audio crackles)
- [Izabela] Please record your last words.
Please record.
- Let's put that a little bit earlier on in the mix.
Let's put this here on the cyborg attack.
- [Izabela] Please record your last words.
- Let's actually move her here.
- [Izabela] Please record your last words.
- And actually I'm going to bring
that onto another track and pitch shift it slightly.
so we get a slightly robotic sound.
Pitch Shifter let's-
- [Izabela] Please record your last word.
- And we'll actually triple track that.
And on this track, we'll go in
and we'll Time and Pitch, Pitch Shifter,
and we'll shift that up.
- [Izabela] Please record your last.
- Let's pan that little (indistinct).
- [Izabela] Please record your last words.
- [Mike] To infinity and beyond.
Let's actually bring that in a little bit earlier.
(audio crackles)
Here we go, nice bit of reverb at the end, perfect.
Okay, so we've got something now that looks like this.
And what I can actually do is,
I can undock this video panel
and maybe make it a little bit bigger
as I play back the full mix that we've created here.
So here's Buzz in space and, oh no,
here comes an intruder shooting with lasers.
- [Izabela] Mission failure imminent in 3, 2, 1.
- [Mike] Buzz Light Year to Star Command.
- [Izabela] Please record your last words.
- [Mike] To infinity and beyond.
- So as you can see with just a few effects added
to the voice and a few generates
of noise and tones and stuff like that.
And mixing them all up with effects like chorus,
reverb, you name it, delay.
You can make some brilliant space sound effects
and I've had fun doing this.
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