Sound Effects Introduction • - • - - What is sound effects or audio effects? Applying a process to change a sound form Commercial uses Music Films Advertising Games What is sound or audio effects? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ2WzLg5rDc Distortion • Create a “warm”, “dirty” and fuzzy sound by compressing the peaks of sound waves and adding overtones Example of Distortion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZP6yF38MA Talk Box • A talk box is an effects unit that allows musicians to modify the sound of a musical instrument by shaping the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (in the same way as singing) onto the sounds of the instrument. Example of Talk Box https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gXezwGYXeSM Pitch Bend • A smooth uninterrupted glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or a bowed stringed instrument. • This electric keyboard contains a pitch bend wheel which changes the pitch much like the way a guitarist bends a string or uses a whammy bar. Example of Pitch Bend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw_n2wQ_oNs Delay • Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time. When the delayed playback is mixed with the live audio, it creates an echo-like effect, whereby the original audio is heard followed by the delayed audio. Example of delay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCUUu96PYjo Auto tune • A device or facility for tuning something automatically, especially a piece of computer software that enables the correction of an outof-tune vocal performance. Example of Auto tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uIzOUh1t8M Phaser • A phaser is an electronic sound processor used to filter a signal, and it has a series of troughs in its frequency-attenutation graph. The position (in Hz) of the peaks and troughs are typically modulated by an internal lowfrequency oscillator so that they vary over time, creating a sweeping effect. Example of Phaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T_L4qYRi7s Sound Effects • • An imitative sound, as of thunder or and explosion, produced artificially for theatrical purposes, as for a film, play, or radio program. Often used in the plural. Sound Effects are the most commonly used kind of effects. We hear them in the films, games, radios, songs, advertisement, etc. Example of Sound Effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO3N_PRIgX0&t=7s Thank you for Listening!
