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Processing tips for sound effects

Processing tips for sound effects - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Processing tips for sound effects

In this movie we'll get started on a few ideas on how to generate our own sound effects to create evocative and dramatic soundtracks. One way of generating sound effects is to start with a conventional sound already being used in the session as a catalyst to create a new sound. The benefits of this is that the introduction of a new tone, or sound, is rooted in the sound of the scene, so it's not too foreign, or out of place. Here we have a transition that goes from motorcycle race into a hospital, then into a lake. It's kind of a dreamy sequence, and we want to have an ominous tone run throughout to bridge the three scenes. We're going to use the background ambience that's already laid in to stimulate a heavy reverb, and we're going to print that reverb return effect back into Pro Tools. The result will be an ominous sound effect that carries the scene. So let's listen to the scene without any effects. We're going to be just hearing the ambience now. (ambient sounds) (people shuffling…

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