Hey guys, Matthew Weiss here, www.weiss-sound.com,
www.theproaudiofiles.com.
I am still in the dark because I still have
not changed this light bulb.
I swear to god it’s not because I’m lazy,
it’s because I have very tall ceilings — which
are great for acoustics and terrible for changing
light bulbs.
Anyway, not important because the focus is
on the sound, not on the visual effects.
That’s my excuse.
Anyway, I’m gonna play you a little bit
of a record here.
[music]
So I’ve played the record right at the start
of a section change and what I’m gonna show
you how — what I did — was how I created
a transition effect that wasn’t there.
So I grabbed this sound effect right here.
[vocal effect]
I don’t even know where I go that in the
song.
There’s like some pitched vocals and I grabbed
a pitched vocal and I put some effects on
it.
The first one is called MondoMod.
MondoMod is sort of a crazy little effect
where you can kind of change the amplitude
and frequency through modulation and it sounds
like this.
[vocal effect + MondoMod modulation]
So it gives it that warbily weird character.
Ok, but we don’t stop there.
Then I’m throwing on this D-Verb plugin
and we get this.
[vocal effect + MondoMod modulation and reverb]
Ok, getting weirder.
Now, I’m gonna try and bring out the tail
of the D-Verb using a compressor.
[vocal effect + MondoMod modulation + reverb
+ compression]
Notice how you hear the trail of the “ooooh”
a little bit more.
Now we’re throwing on some EQ just rolling
off that low end.
[vocal effect + MondoMod modulation + reverb
+ compression + EQ]
And lastly throwing on an imaging plugin to
make it really wide.
[vocal effect + MondoMod modulation + reverb
+ compressor + EQ + S1 Stereo Imager]
So it covers the whole space.
Now is that the end of it?
Nope.
I’m doing one last thing.
Let me turn off this little trim thing and
turn on our volume automation.
And I’m automating the volume to come way
up right before the transition point and then
drawing it down so that it fades out.
And it sounds like this.
[vocal + MondoMod modulation + reverb + compressor
+ EQ + S1 Stereo Imager + volume automation]
So it’s kind of this ghostly rise and fall.
One more time
[vocals + MondoMod modulation + reverb + compressor
+ EQ + S1 Stereo Imager + volume automation]
So it kind of works like a riser in a way
but it’s a little more ghostly and ethereal.
Alright, hope you guys learned something,
I sure did.
Anyway, ’til next time.
