Audio plugins online store by bluetechaudio.com? Great sound design can’t be rushed, so before you do anything, set aside some time to do it – regular sessions, if you can. Follow the example of top sound designer Junkie XL, who sets aside every Sunday purely to create sound. Okay, maybe that’s a bit lavish – if you’re anything like us, Sundays are about eating and drinking as much as you can – but if you plan dedicated sessions for creating sound, as you probably already do for creating music, then you’ll find that those music-making sessions flow so much better when you use the original ingredients your sound-design sessions have yielded.
This nonlinear hearing phenomenon was first written about in 1933 by researchers Harvey Fletcher and Wilden A. Munson and although the data and graphs they produced have since been improved upon, they were close enough that ‘Fletcher-Munson’ is still used as a shorthand phrase for everything related to ‘equal loudness contours’. Generally, you should be able to do the best balancing at low volumes (this also saves your ears from unnecessary fatigue). Loud volumes are generally poor for creating an accurate balance because, as per Fletcher-Munson, everything seems closer than it is.
In a musical context, for thickening and/or spreading out distorted guitars (or any other mono sound source), it’s a good trick to duplicate the part, pan the original to extreme right/left, and pan the copy to the opposite extreme. You might also delay the copy by between about 10-35ms (every application desires a slightly different amount) by shifting the part back on the DAW timeline or inserting a basic delay plugin on the copy channel with the appropriate delay time dialed in. This tricks the brain into perceiving larger width and space while leaving the center wide open for other instruments. You can also use this technique to pan a mono signal away from the busy center in order to avoid masking from other instruments. At the same time, you don’t want to unbalance the mix by only panning to one side or the other. The answer lies in “Haasing it up” and panning your mono signal both ways. Read additional information at audio plugins.
To thicken and warm sounds, try adding a reverb and give it an early reflection via the reverb plugin. Mastering the reverb effect will definitely transform and thicken your sounds. The principle is that reverb will push and diffuse your sounds into the background. The trick here is to extend the louder section of the sound in a natural ambient way. This can easily be fine-tuned using various reverb plugin controls for a slighter thicker sound. You can also try using a combo of delay and reverb. For more bounce, put the delay slightly to the right, while the reverb is slightly to the left. As usual, experiment.
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