Sound is Everywhere
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Sound is Everywhere
• Music Production (classical, pop, jazz, etc.)
• Voice (interviews, discussions, news, audio books, documentaries, etc.)
• Sound Effects (doors, explosions, cars, etc.)
• Combinations of the above: movies, TV, jingles, sound logo’s, games, web, etc.
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Media• Radio Production
• Film/TV Production (sound supporting the image)
• Film & DVD Production (surround sound)
• Web audio
• Games audio
• Music
• Background (shopping mall) music
• 3D or Immersive Audio / 360º audio
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Sound is a very important factor in creating convincing
video footage
Video is boring without sound...But sound can do without video...
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We can see from red to violet
infrared is too low, ultraviolet too high for humans to see
We can hear from 20Hz to 20.000Hz
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© D. Talma 2007
SoftMid High
20-200Hz
1k- 5000Hz5k-20kHz
200-1000Hz
We don’t have many words to describe sound
Low
Loudfat/ boomy/ muddy
clear/ harsh
defined/ metallic
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Good...
Bad...
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Example
• Project of students second semester
‘the voice of Chaplin’
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Audio Process Stages
• 1: Recording/Overdubbing
• 2: Editing
• 3: Mixing and sweetening
• 4: Mastering/Encoding
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1: Recording
• Choice of sources
• Microphone choice
• Microphone placement
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1b: Overdubbing
• The process of adding sounds later
• You can add sounds layer by layer in a studio
• Film: voice overs, dialogue, music score
• Music: Recording instruments one by one
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Music Examples
• Music Session: Call on me -Unmixed
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2: Editing: combining different takes
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2b: Editing: in film best dialogue is chosen from all takes and edited sync to
picture
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2b: Content editing• Digital technology offers extensive editing possibilities
• You can fix timing, intonation or pitch of any performance and create one final (comped) track from different takes.
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3: Mixing & Sweetening• Make everything sound as good as it can be
• A large toolkit of Compressors, Equalizers, Delays, Reverbs, Pitch-Shifters, etc.
• Balance the levels and stereo or surround image of all tracks.
• Check Mono Compatibility
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3b: Example EQ
colour correction of sound
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3c: Stereo
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3d: Surround
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4: Mastering & Coding• The last step:
• Levelling and encoding for the type of media:
• Web, DVD, Movie, Ringtone, Radio, TV, etc.
• iTunes YT, & Spotify
• R128
• CALM