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A little while ago, I got it in my head to try making horror sounds. For inspiration, I used the reavers, from the Serenity/Firefly universe. Because I’m a nerd.
This is the second in a series of four effects I came up with. I don’t think the result came out particularly reaverish, but the name stuck nonetheless. The reason this is interesting is because I used four wildly different techniques to get what are essentially similar sounds, but I’ll be damned if I remember what any of them are now. Anyway, enjoy.
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A little while ago, I got it in my head to try making horror sounds. For inspiration, I used the reavers, from the Serenity/Firefly universe. Because I’m a nerd.
This is the first in a series of four effects I came up with. I don’t think the result came out particularly reaverish, but the name stuck nonetheless. The reason this is interesting is because I used four wildly different techniques to get what are essentially similar sounds, but I’ll be damned if I remember what any of them are now. Anyway, enjoy.
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Have you ever lived near an airport? I grew up under one. 18 freaking years. On the positive side, I can totally concentrate to read in a rock concert. On the other hand, though, that sound spent so much time going into me, it’s started coming out the other side.
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Imagine, if you will, that your ship has encountered a new species. Now imagine that new species is much more advanced than yours, despite the spaceship you’re in. Imagine that this new species scans your ship’s systems to determine exactly what they think of you. And finally, imagine that scan blows all your computers and everything else right the heck to hell.
This is what it might sound like, I think.
Welcome to NaPodPoMo.
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Dr Matt made a video. He couldn’t think of a soundtrack to put to it, but begged for suggestions. This is what happens when you put requests like that out on the net.
EDITED TO ADD: since the new WordPress update breaks Podpress, here’s the audio file. I’ll come back and properly podcast this once it’s fixed.
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Just a little shorty this time. This is what happens when you take pink noise (artificial wind), overdrive the shit out of it through a phaser set to 11, run it through an analog centerpass filter, then stick it through a “gong model” (whatever the hell that is) to fatten it up and give it that harmonic, shimmery sound. I actually ended up with about 5 minutes of this, but I figured 30 seconds was more than enough.
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