Does this sound... Thiefy to you at all? - by TheGrimSmile
TheGrimSmile on 11/10/2010 at 01:22
That's what I was going for. Something like a victrola might play :D
As it turns out, I did try to use a white noise for that fuzzy sound. Even when listening, it isn't quite the sound I'm going for. I'm looking for something a little scratchy, but I'm not sure how to do that with a white noise type of thing rather than a looping sound.
Vernon on 11/10/2010 at 01:34
Well a Victrola has noise and clicks and warps.
The noise I am talking about isn't for emulating the clicks - it is for emulating the hiss of an old record player. You can make white noise do things like this with great ease, as it has so much harmonic content. Filtering/EQing, etc to shape the spectral content of the noise can get you a nice wax cylinder effect.
As for clicks - you just need a synthesiser and some filters. Or if you don't fancy getting your paws mucky, you could get something from (
http://www.freesound.org/) freesound. I found loads of stuff after searching for "vinyl noise."
Warps in the record are easy. You could probably do it in audacity by just detuning the sound briefly in select places, or regularly to emulate a record that is bent in one spot so it will detune every revolution
yep
TheGrimSmile on 11/10/2010 at 01:44
Ahh, I see. I'll have to mess around with it a bit more. I don't have time to mess with it tonight, but I'll peck away at it over the next week.
Thanks so much for your suggestions!
Vernon on 11/10/2010 at 02:42
Or you could just use something like this:
(
http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl/)
It's free and emulates vinyl glitches reasonably well. You'll also need some kind of VST host to run this; I don't think it has a standalone option. There is a list of some free ones here:
(
http://www.stimtek.com/)
It looks like Jost is also compatible with the LADSPA plugins used in Audacity
I'd recommend (
http://www.buzzmachines.com/) this outright, but it has a massive learning curve
Anyway glhf, let me know if you need help setting any of this up
TheGrimSmile on 24/10/2010 at 07:08
Thanks again for all the help!
I haven't gotten the record scratches yet, but I've been working on the fake wax cylinder sound (since it turns out that REAL wax cylinders have relatively great quality sound) and found that the original makes that sound by having a white noise kind of sound on mostly one channel and the scratching noise on the other. I've done something similar, and it's... kind of working.
I would also love to try to make ambiance (you can't have a thousand victrolas hanging about) but I'm afraid that no one would find much use for them. Is it possible that FM authors would like to use some fan-made ambiance even though it doesn't compare to the real thing?
That doesn't come until I experiment some more, though :joke:
One thing I've been tossing around is a ballroom track. It would be used as any other ambiance track would be used, but the sound would only span the area of a ballroom, to mimic the sound of music playing in a big, empty room. I figure a soft and simple track with some careful use of echo would be fun to make.
I dunno, something about the image is stuck in my head. I can imagine it in Thief 2 graphics: a chandelier hanging from a high, rib vaulted ceiling with large arched entrances and a black and white tile.
:tsktsk:
