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This is my final project with the audio put to the video. I am sorry about the poor quality but tumblr will only let me upload 100mb per file so i have had to compress this down to an mp4 format. This also seemed to have brought occasionally a few play back issues.
other than that i hope you enjoy it.
Final Track Audio
This is the audio file for the final project track. It is made up of all the sounds from the car and car park that have been edited and made into a creative drum pattern for the video to match up to.
Enjoy
Final Project Mixdown by Bennheiser
Using Effects on Samples
Effects like the ones used in the previous post about making a drum sample from the sound of a bonnet closing should only be used if they have to be. The idea of the effects are not to make the recordings/sample sound like an actual drum kit but to help the sample create the feel of certain parts of the drum kit. An aid almost for the listener to distinguish between the different parts of the kit. This helps the listener as they are able to quickly determine the emulated sound and are not spending ages trying to figure out what each sound is in the overall mix. Many of the effects used in my project and throughout the editing have been used very rarely and when they do have often been used to add slight effect and not dramatically change the sound (except for pitch shift which i used to its massive ability). Effects should not be added just for the sake of adding them. As they say "A little goes a long way".
For my final project i used the sounds recorded from a car to make a beat. Each part of the car represented a different part of a drum kit for example the bonnet worked well as a kick. This will show you how i used effects available in Adobe Audition to create a drum sound. In previous posts i have looked at how effects and EQ can be used to change the sound and how i have used available features such as the pitch shifter to create a distinctive melody line out of and everyday object such as the beep on a car park ticket machine. (This was used in the car track). I am going to cover how to take the original recording of a car bonnet closing and turn it into a workable and useable drum sample.
All of the drum samples are below the text i will point out by using bold text the times when you may go listen to the specific sample.
The first step was to shorten the initial sample to the length of a drum sound. Luckily the sound already has the characteristics of a drum with the fast attack and release. After shortening this an EQ was added with the settings found in Image 1. I tended to boost many of the lower frequencies mainly around the 63Hz range. This gave the bonnet a lot fuller and thicker sound much like a kick drum. The sound of a kick drum was what i was aiming for. The Original sound and the EQ bonnet close sound can be found on track 1 and 2 of the audio file below.
After giving the sound the lower frequency boost i went about adding a very short Delay/Echo. This thickens out the sound and gives it a more natural feel. The settings i used are like they are in Image 2. The example of this short delay can be found on track 3 on the audio file below. It was very important to get the delay right as too much ruined the drum sound where as too little had no effect at all. Eventually a slap back style echo was settled upon as this best thickened the sound.
The final step was to add Reverb to the sound. This not only aided in blending and thickening the sound but it also added to the natural feel of the sound much like the one you get with a real drum kit. The settings for the reverb can be found in Image 3. The reverb i used is very slight and very dry. Too much can muddy the sound losing the important click effect often found on a kick drum. The track with the Reverb added can be found below on track 4 of the audio file.
Below are all the tracks in order of how the sound progresses from the original to being the finished drum sound.
Editing the sound of a car bonnet closing. by Bennheiser
This section was all about creating a track by taking loops from another track. I took a Funk/Hip Hop track and made loops from it to arrange them to make a new track. In order to create the loop i selected the section wanted and using fn+f8(Due to the Mac Keyboard) i played a long to the beat of the music. This added in beat markers (See image 1). I then copied this and opened it up in a new edit window. It is important to use the 'Snap to Zero Crossing' to ensure the file is cut as close to 0Db as possible to avoid pops and clicks.
After it was copied across i right clicked the file and under the file info menu the window seen in image 2 appears. I Selected loop option which allows the file to be automatically repeated when dragged from the bottom corner. The number of beats from when i took the beat markers goes into the 'number of beats' box. This allows Audition to work out the tempo of the loop.
I used this method for the other loops and then began work on sticking them into a new track. The only problem i encountered was occasionally the loops sounded un-musical and not put together very well but with slight changes to the loop this was easily solved.
The file below shows the finished track made of the loops.
Loopy by Bennheiser
The final section of my sound generation was to generate the sound of an 808 Kick Drum. I firstly generated a sine wave with the time of 0.2 seconds with the settings found in Image 1 Sound Generation. This gave me the correct pitch of the sound. Since this just generated a tone and didn't have any resemblance to a kick drum i had to add and ADSR to the sound. With this being a drum i set the sound for a quick attack and had the release so it sounded like a drum would and have that natural decay. The ADSR settings are in image 2.
The completed Kick Drum sound is below.
808 Kick Drum by Bennheiser
This is another part of sound generation that i did. This one was to generate the sound of humming machinery and develop this into the sound of a Spaceship coming into land. A strange mix but one that i think sounds awesome.
Firstly i generated a tone in Audition and set the settings as they are in the First Image. I changed the volume and certain frequencies to get the effect of the machinery humming away in a factory. The finished result can be heard below. The main feature is the Wobble Bass frequency.
Machinery Throb by Bennheiser
This machinery sound could then be developed with the settings seen in the Second Image. The spaceship sound is creating by adding a glide that gradually decreases in pitch and speed over the top of the wobble. The main settings changed were the frequency components of the sound that gave the sound its spacey feel. The base frequency was also changed to 20Hz. The Space landing is below. Enjoy
Space Craft Landing by Bennheiser
MAKING THE SOUND OF WIND USING NOISE GENERATION
I used Adobe Audition to try and re create everyday sound only by generating tones and using no field recording.
Firstly i generated Pink Noise with an intensity of 4 and applied an ADSR filter to it. The ADSR allowed me to change how the filter effects the sound over time. Since wind swells and increases/decreases in speed then trying to re create this can be done with the filter. The first image shows how the filter was set up. The slow attack for the initial swell then it slowly drops off then has a quick increase in volume and amount of noise let through before dropping back to silence.
The next step was to use an EQ to boost the lower frequencies of the sound (See the second image), with the final step being to apply a long sweeping reverb to blend the pink noise better and give the effect that the wind is rustling through the trees.
Below is the completed version of the wind rustling through the trees.
Wind Noise by Bennheiser
This follows on from the previous post about time stretching. This shows how to solve the problem in pitch associated with stretching out the audio file.
Firstly it i had to double click the audio file in the muti track view so that it opened up in a new edit window. I then clicked on edit hit points. Cubase then goes through and marks the beginning and end of each drum hit. With it being drums this is easy for Cubase to do as the hits are clearly defined however with instruments such as guitar and bass this can be slightly trickier. Once all the hit point were selected i made this into a groove by clicking on make groove section.
The next step was to open the Midi Bass part back up again and under the Quantization options i selected the groove i had just made with the drums. This brings the bass in time with the drums and allows it to be looped without issue.
However the a slight pitch issue with the drums was still present but i applied slight pitch shift to the sound which brought the drums back to their original sound.
The completed drum loop can be found below.
Time Stretched Loop by Bennheiser
Time Stretching Audio in Cubase
Firstly i imported a drum and bass track. However the drum track was shorter than the bass this would mean that when looped it would fall out of time very quickly. I will show how to change this and stretch out the drum track in order to make it ideal for looping. Unlike when working with MIDI you cannot just grab the notes and stretch them out. Editing audio is slightly trickier as if you stretch the audio it changes the pitch and even can effect the tempo.
After importing the tracks i used advances Quantisation to change it to Dotted 1/16th notes as this fit the drums better as the bass was given a staccato feel. I moved on to change the track tempo to 100Bpm this caused the drums to fall out of time further. In order to bring the drums to match up to the bass you have the option in Cubase known as 'Sizing Applies to Time Stretching' So with this selected and the snap option on i dragged the drums track to match up to the bass. This stretching of the audio file has a big change in pitch. This is where the most complicated bit of time stretching is introduced.
The next post will cover this section as it will be clearer that way to describe time stretching.
Quantisation in Cubase
Working with MIDI gives many editing options available to the user. The most noted is the ability to edit music after it has been played. In this example i will look at how you can use the process known as Quantization in Cubase to change when notes start and change the feel of the notes after the initial live playing of the music. Quantization is the process of taking notes and moving them to a specific beat so they are in time. This can cause problems as it can begin to make the music sound very mechanical and it can lose its natural sound.
The sound below is the Original file and has not been Quantized. I shall use this Loop throughout to show the changes that quantization can make. Notice in the file that the bass is playing just off beat this is where the biggest change will be noticed with the quantization in The Bass Part.
Orig non quantised by Bennheiser
These next two files show the Quantization of the loop above. The first shows the Quantization been set to 1/8 and the second file it being set to 1/8 Triplets. Note how the bass changes in feel and how it is now playing dead on the beat. You can begin to hear how the sound can very quickly become mechanical and not human.
1/8 Quantisation by Bennheiser
1/8 Triplet Quantisation by Bennheiser
Car Track Mixdown
This is the finished track built up from sound recorded in the car. The song features sounds such as Bonnets/Boots/Doors closing. The sounds have been edited in Adobe Audition and have been creatively made into a beat.
Car Track by Bennheiser
Enjoy
I used the pitch shifter tool to shift the Bleep from the ticket machine into a melody line. I had to do individual files for each change of pitch in order to make the melody line other wise Adobe would try and pitch shift everything which was not wanted.
I have created a song using the sound from a car. I recorded the sound using a Hand Held Recorder with a Shotgun Microphone attached. The Shotgun microphone was used as it is a Cardioid pattern and its pickup range is very focused with very little spill from the outside allowing you to capture purely the sound you want and not have lots of background noise interfering.
I started with the closing of the boot recorded on the inside and out of the car to make a kick drum sound. The Closing of the car bonnet would act as a snare and the coin drop on the ticket machine adding other elements. These tracks would make up an introduction track before other instruments are added. I got the beat first to then edit the sounds if needs be later on. The Above image shows the completed track in Audition. The sounds are all recorded live and edited within the program. Most have EQ to boost the frequencies so their usage is more obvious, For example the Boot closing used for the kick have boosted the lower frequencies to give it a more Kick Drum like sound.
Click And Pop Removal-Adobe Audition
Clicks and Pops were also present throughout the audio file but luckily Adobe Audition has the ability to remove these with a Plug in Known as the 'Click and Pop Removal Tool'.
This can be found under the tab Effects-->Restoration-->Click and Pop Removal.
The plug in scans the audio file and removes/Reduces the Clicks and Pops. While they may seem only small Pops it is important to remove them as they can be very annoying to have occurring under what you are listening to. The Clicks and Pops also make the audio track difficult to work with as any Processing and Effects done to the track will be applied to these pop as well.
After the music was placed into the video it was time to clean up to audio for the speaking sections of the audio. This would involve using a feature available in Audition known as capturing the noise profile. This allows the user to capture any noise in a specific section of the audio and use it to eliminate the same noise in other sections of the track. It works by capturing the frequencies in the selected area then it will hunt down those frequencies and remove either all or as close to all of them as possible.
This was particularly useful as the audio when speaking has too much background noise and sound is very muddy. I Selected the Capture Noise Profile option and selected an area where there was just background noise. I then ran the Noise Profile tool which captured the frequencies and remembered them. After capturing them it was a matter of selecting the audio you wanted to remove the frequencies from and running the noise reduction plug in.
This removed the unwanted background noise and left mostly speaking. However because frequencies are removed it is important to use EQ to restore some of the natural sound of the voice.
After i had chopped up the audio and deleted the unwanted file it was time to move onto adding in the music. The song i chose was American Idiot as it has a very defined end which fit into the fast pace of the video. Using automation i increased the volume for the action sections of the video and dropped the volume when the speaking sections came in. The Automation allowed me to be able to have full control over the volume of the track. Having this control when putting music to video is important as the music plays a big part in how the video is interpreted so the increase and decrease in volume kept the pace up.