Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Audio Only Project Practice: Creaking Door With A Reverb Effect

The brief for our 'Audio Only Project' is to create... A 3-minute, audio only soundscape on the theme - 'sense of place'. We will do this in pairs which will go towards are final project for the first semester.
 
My group will record sound using a Zoom Sound Recorder and edit the sound using Pro Tools Software.

To practice my skills recording with the Zoom I captured some Mono sounds and a Stereo atmosphere sound. The best Mono sounds I captured was a creaking door sound and a toilet flush sound.
 
After I captured these sounds I imported them in to the Pro Tools Software and began editing
them.

As a practice task, I recorded the sound of a creaking door with a Zoom sound recorder and a basic mono plug-in mic. The aim for this practice was to expand my skills recording and editing sound. I exploited the already mysterious and haunting nature of a creaking door and it's links with the horror genre and made it even more strange. I added a reverb effect to create a completely different sound. The sound effect would be useful for a horror/thriller film because of the sounds haunting ambiance.

This is a screen grab of the tracks I recorded uploaded on to the Pro Tools Software.

I added different effects to the Mono creaking door sound and found out that I could completely change how the track sounds. I added a reverb effect and made the track sound like a haunting and sinister violin sound; a noise you would expect to hear in a horror or thriller film.

The following images are screen grabs of me editing the creaking door track with the reverb effect...

This image shows me editing the creaking door track with the reverb effect control board.

This image is a closer screen grab of the reverb effects board. You can see that there are many controls to change the sound of the track. I challenged myself to create a scary horror sound out of the creaking door. So in my case, I increased the reverb time, the room size and the mix to levels which made the track sound surreal yet not over the top edited. 

This following clip is the creaking door sound I recorded, with the added reverb effect which I exported from Pro Tools and uploaded on to YouTube.





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