Feb 25, 2021
Ever wanted to hear the entire “I am your father” scene from the Empire Strikes Back without any background noise or music? Well, here you go! There is one or two mixing problems but for the most part, it came out well.
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Ever wanted to hear the entire “I am your father” scene from the Empire Strikes Back without any background noise or music? Well, here you go! There is one or two mixing problems but for the most part, it came out well.
I think I'll take after you and record in my closet. It's a nice, dark, enclosed space.
Closets are a GREAT place to record if you don’t have a real “studio,” actually. I know some people who do YouTube professionally, and their sound guy recommended the closet to me, lol. I also hung a blanket over me to soften the sound a bit. Also, I built a sound isolation box for my mic. Not sure if I’ve mentioned this before, actually. Basically I went to a music store, bought some sound baffle foam, and lined the inside of a plastic tub with it. Then I set my mic in that. That helps with extraneous noise and focuses the sound better. Here’s a video on how to do that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QabVmUxoSY
ALSO that YouTube guy also recommended recording with the mic tilted about 30 degrees away, not straight into it. That can help reduce mouth and breath noises you may pick up in the recording.
It’s a lot of trial and error, lol. But there are a lot of resources out there these days :)
what software do u use for sound engineering?
hello! so the main program that a lot of the industry consider as standard is Pro Tools, which is what i use. the main big version is a paid subscription, and you can pay more for extra stuff and the like but Avid also fairly recently made a free version that's a bit more barebones but works great if you're still starting out/doing sound stuff as a hobby
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this one's great because it's got a lot of the same features as the main version, plug ins like Xpandi as well which are great for a completely free program. promise this isn't an ad i just really love this thing
the only slight downside to Pro Tools is that there's a bit of a learning curve to it: the UI isn't as friendly as some other programs like Logic. Logic is apple-only, so I can't vet it but I've heard good things, and lots of studios/engineers i know run Pro Tools and Logic together, or Pro Tools and Ableton.
but there's a ton of tutorials and helpful info on the internet, so if I can get the hang of this thing then anyone can :)
I was trying to work but my brain had a better idea.
@dnyane hello there and thank you for your comment on one of the posts I made!
Ah, well, I did originally write it as "Yo", but it just didn't hit the same way and honestly it made me think about enka singing more than enthusiastic greeting (search up traditional version of Bad Apple and you'll understand what I mean). And in the context, it made more sense to use "Hi" than it was to use "Yo" based on simply the fact that humans tend to naturally produce a higher sound with "i" vowel than they are with "o", which would be more likely to pass through the glass and be even caught on the mic.
Fun fact: It's easier to sing u and o from lower note calibre while a and i are easier to be sung at high notes, e is more or less a neutral sound.
This is because on the fact that u and o are what are referred to as "back vocals" (aka you create them at the back of your mouth/in throat while a and i are "front vocals" created at the front of your mouth/throat (it's been quite some time since I last talked about this, actually it's been about a decade so I can't fully remember if it was throat or mouth cavity), e is a sound which can be made in both.
The place in which the vocals are created affects greatly the amount of volume you have to use to make these vocals be heard.
So to put it simply: The reason why I went with "Hi" instead of "Yo" was based on my knowledge regarding how certain sounds are produced and which ones we naturally speak higher with, which in turn could penetrate the glass and be heard by the individual on the other side.
Oh and also the current generation is more likely to understand "Hiiii" as enthusiastic greeting than "Yo".
-R
When your colleague turns you insecure in three words.
My new favorite thing is shows reusing the same songs to enhance the main feeling of the show whenever it represents itself. It's very subtle and is a great way to make the episode feel like it's been tied up, even if it hasnt. Also I dig hearing all the different reprives they make out of a small score. I've noticed this in a lot of things lately, particularly in Riverdale and Imposters