{"id":844,"date":"2015-01-28T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tungstenfilamentgroup.com\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2015-01-28T00:03:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:03:17","slug":"demo-reel-breakdown-creature-vocal-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/demo-reel-breakdown-creature-vocal-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Demo reel breakdown: creature vocal effects"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this continuing series, I take a look at the sound designs from my Oblivion demo reel clip<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"atronach\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Flame Atronach<\/a>, the main enemy in this clip, is a fiery creature from another plane of existence. I wanted to give it an evil, demonic quality. Here are some of the unedited vocals I recorded of myself:
\nhttp:\/\/tungstenfilamentgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/atronarch-vocals-raw.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

After cleaning up some of the background noise, I applied pitch effects and a little bit of vibrato to get the following:
\nhttp:\/\/tungstenfilamentgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/atronarch-fx-take-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

I thought it was getting close to the right sound, but I also wanted to impart some more menace by modulating the voice clips with elements of rock and fire. I fired up FL Studio and set up a channel with a vocoder so that I could mess around with different carrier waves (roaring fires, road construction, avalanches, etc.)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"FL<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/tungstenfilamentgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/atronach_vocoded-samples.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

The vocoded clips sounded pretty cool on their own, but tended to skew heavily to one of the frequency spectrum or the other. I mixed together some of my favorites from the vocoding session to get the sounds I was after. <\/p>\n

\"Audition<\/a><\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/tungstenfilamentgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/atronach-fx-final.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this continuing series, I take a look at the sound designs from my Oblivion demo reel clip. The Flame Atronach, the main enemy in this clip, is a fiery creature from another plane of existence. I wanted to give it an evil, demonic quality. Here are some of the unedited vocals I recorded of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6,7,190],"tags":[185,243,124,135],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reel-2","category-gaming","category-general","category-sound-design-2","tag-demo-reel","tag-oblivion","tag-recording","tag-sound-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}