For about a year I have been experimenting with creating my own sound effects. So when I saw the opportunity to contribute on this site I uploaded about 10 sound effects all as CC By Creative Commons. I had so many that I thought of using a zip file. But I decided in the end to upload them as individualised sound effects. I use various methods. There are pure recordings of say, weather, and then there are processed recordings where I distort or enhance with DAW tools such as Edison. Then there are effects where I compose and make it all inside my DAW of FL Studio.
I try my best at it. The recording equipment that I use is totally budget. But that isn't necessarily bad. Small, cheap equipment can be carried around easily and when you hear a noise that strikes you, you can press and grab. Whereas bulky, professional equipment also doesn't fit in a lot of places. I put recording equipment up trees, out in the rain, on top of a wall. Because I use cheap stuff - often a 100 dollar dictaphone that was never designed to record ambience at all - I am not worried about my equipment getting broken or soaked. If it busts I will buy another one. It's cheap.
So it's not black and white. It's not that better equipment equals a better outcome. I have thought about buying proper recording equipment. But the research didn't impress me. There is a lot of skulduggery by field recorder manufacturers that is a bit like the video card skulduggery in PCs. The other aspect is that even if your recorded sample is not good, FL Studio has brilliant tools such as Edison for cleaning it up, boosting it, reverbing it etc. You wouldn't believe how bad some samples were before I put them into FL Studio's tools and the difference afterwards.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions about me contributing to audio effects let me know. I try my best. I am not an expert on this area by any means.
Thank you
Originally posted by neptunedexperiment on Tue 11 Jul, 2017
Hey Andrew,
I have been listening to the sound effects you've been uploading to the media library. I really like them. As a matter of fact, I just downloaded 'Magic Rain'. I'm hoping to incorporate it into a vocal idea I recorded a few weeks ago. So thank you for uploading your creative sounds. :)
I have been listening to the sound effects you've been uploading to the media library. I really like them. As a matter of fact, I just downloaded 'Magic Rain'. I'm hoping to incorporate it into a vocal idea I recorded a few weeks ago. So thank you for uploading your creative sounds. :)
#2547 Posted Tue 11 Jul, 2017 12:26 pm
Raven, I appreciate your support a lot! I try to make sound effects that are a bit unusual. Everything that is normal is already on the net somewhere! If I had to pick I like the most it would be clock horror: I did a few versions of that. I had to detach the wall clock, take it down, find a quiet room with all doors shut, put my recorder right on the clock. Literally on it. Then leave and come back later. That way the ticking hands sound thunderously loud. I decided to keep the start and the end where i set up the clock because its rustling fitted the horror theme. Unfortunately I don't have a clock with a chime for the hour; if I had one like that that would have been even better.
Thanks again! I introduce a lot of ambiguity in the effects. I like to make multiple possibilities for what they might be. Not sure when I will make more. Might get back to composing!
Thanks again! I introduce a lot of ambiguity in the effects. I like to make multiple possibilities for what they might be. Not sure when I will make more. Might get back to composing!
#2548 Posted Tue 11 Jul, 2017 12:34 pm
Hey Andrew, I had listen as well and there are some great sounds there......... I may well use some of them the next time I create a "dark" sound landscape :)
#2552 Posted Fri 14 Jul, 2017 11:32 am
I try my best at it. The recording equipment that I use is totally budget. But that isn't necessarily bad. Small, cheap equipment can be carried around easily and when you hear a noise that strikes you, you can press and grab. Whereas bulky, professional equipment also doesn't fit in a lot of places. I put recording equipment up trees, out in the rain, on top of a wall. Because I use cheap stuff - often a 100 dollar dictaphone that was never designed to record ambience at all - I am not worried about my equipment getting broken or soaked. If it busts I will buy another one. It's cheap.
So it's not black and white. It's not that better equipment equals a better outcome. I have thought about buying proper recording equipment. But the research didn't impress me. There is a lot of skulduggery by field recorder manufacturers that is a bit like the video card skulduggery in PCs. The other aspect is that even if your recorded sample is not good, FL Studio has brilliant tools such as Edison for cleaning it up, boosting it, reverbing it etc. You wouldn't believe how bad some samples were before I put them into FL Studio's tools and the difference afterwards.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions about me contributing to audio effects let me know. I try my best. I am not an expert on this area by any means.
Thank you