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New Ambience: Desert Winds
🕑 Added 2018-05-16 14:41:57 +0000 UTCGreetings Patrons,
A different take on the desert biome this week. The other ones I've done were a bit more musical or more abstract. This one aims for a much more nature focused feel.
Desert Winds is another one of those sounds that I thought was going to be easy, but wasn't. At all. I had some cool wind recordings from a storm at the beach a few years ago which I've used in various sounds but never really featured. I was excited to build an entire track around a single field recording and make some tweaks and be done. Well, it turns out that wind isn't just wind.
I found that the wind I had was much too steady, and therefore kind of dull. So I had to perform all sorts of subtle trickery on it to make it come alive. I animated the pitch and the filtering which made it better. I layered some stock onto it but had to excise anything that resembled a leaf sound.
I did some sand Foley recording to see if I could get some cool blowing, sifting sand noises. That answer would be no by the way, I could not. No matter what I did, it sounded like a guy pouring sand on the beach, not the violent storm I was trying to conjure. But other trickery worked. like some roaring waves pitched and filtered to sound more like a wall of sand than individual grains.
The music is very subtle on this one and I like what it adds a lot. That being said, I know some of you prefer pure ambience so I've included a patron only alternate track as well.
Thank you, as always, for your continuing support.
Best,
Tim
Comments
Myron Dietz
I love this ambience for gaming and just to listen to! Thanks for making it with and without the music. They both are good and they have different uses. The ambience will allow me to layer different music when needed.
Nobilis Reed
This came just in time!
Very fond of this one!
