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a dream i had the other day | SONG, STEMS, SFX
🕑 Added 2023-08-28 16:05:01 +0000 UTCiI's been a minute since I've had SO MANY AUDIO FILES to give you.
First off, it's the song! I think I managed to make it sound extremely karaoke-esque while still being catchy and enjoyable to listen to. The final piano part is Karen's playing—I wrote the music and then gave it to her to actually perform on a real piano so it would sound beautiful instead of stilted, which is how I would play it.
And then it's the sound effects. Since I wanted to make the video as uncanny as possible, I recorded ALL of the audio in post, which means that I also have a bunch of weird sound effects that you can peruse/use in your own projects! As a reminder, anything labelled SFX is completely free for you to download and use in anything you make. Here are some fun little facts about the noises:
- the reversed voice clip in the intro to the video is a pitched down clip of me saying "the black screen symbolizes falling asleep"
- crinkling an empty water bottle will always be my favorite way to make weird bone-breaking sounds
- the son's voice is double-tracked recordings of me doing the worst, most-gurgly sounding voice I could manage. One is then pitched up and the other pitched down. It gives that really bassy monster effect while still staying semi-intelligible. I like it a lot and I want to do more monster voices.
- I own a violin and I have only ever used it to make terrible noises for the horror shorts I make.
- I made the jaunty chiptune just to keep the background interesting, but I ended up making something I like a lot. It's repetitive, so it should be easy to make as long as you need in any videos/projects you want to use it in!
- I didn't include all the silly sound effects of the Son rumbling under the couch because I downloaded them all from the internet. I wanted them to be easily recognizable. It's amazing how easy it is to find good things by searching "cartoon boing sound effect"
Hope you all enjoy these! It was a blast to make. I love getting to fool around with sounds.
Comments
Alex Derbe
I’m listening to the jaunty chip tune on repeat rn and it’s making this bus ride feel so gosh dang carefree and whimsical.
Well-Spoken Rambler
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rionsanura
hell yes. i love sounds also
