Sound is different from music. The same components are used, yes,
but sound can make you see so much more.
Hello hello hello, testing testing, 1 2 3.
So today I set out to record my sounds, and here are the sounds I've decided I want:
-Tapping that increases in intensity and power.
-Tapping with slightly different sound (made by tapping microphone) -I didn't use this one, too noisy-
-Tapping that resembles a heart beat
-Bomb explosion sound effect, made with voice
-Bomb dropping sound effect, made by whistling
-Plane sound effect, made with a fan
I recorded all of them, and most of them sound relatively good. I will absolutely have to edit them slightly, maybe distort some (the whistling for one as the pitch is too inconsistent).
I also played around with some synth on Garage Band because James and I discussed an earlier piece he had made, were the synth sounded like artillery fire. I tried it out and I got some interesting results, but I also felt like it didn't fit my piece. I will definitely incorporate it in future projects though!
Here's my final piece:
Now that you've listened to it, I'll tell you what I did to make it sound like that.
First of all I had to do noise reduction on all of them as my mic records a lot of the buzz around it. (I recorded by my computer, and the whirring from it was on the tracks.) I used the Heavy Reduction preset, as I wanted all of the noise to be removed.
As I wanted the tapping to be quite loud, and the other sounds to come in naturally and not abruptly, I had to play around with the amplifier. Some tracks, like the tapping and the heart beat I had to amplify, while other tracks like the explosion and the bomb dropping I had to quiet down a bit. In the beginning of the piece I turned them down to about -25db, while later in the clip when I wanted the bombs to be "closer" I turned them to -5db.
As I mentioned just now, I wanted the bombs and planes to seem far away in the beginning and then come closer. I did this by using an FFT-filter, and putting it to a low pass frequency, so that only the lower frequencies pass through. I curved it, instead of shelving it, as to make it sound like it was coming closer.
And that's about it. I'm quite pleased with my final result.
-TJ
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