Editing and Effects

Recently I have been very busy editing together all of my Sound Design ( I have previously attempted to upload some rough drafts of my sound onto blogger, but it is a fussy mistress to say the least), overlayering each sound with other sounds, pitch-shifting them back and forth, altering the speed, changing parameters, EQing and numerous other sound bits.

I have been noticing the harsh but simple effect achieved by adding something so easy as a reverb or a delay onto a sound. By altering the reverb decay time of a sound you can achieve the illusion of the sound coming from within an enormous structure such as a church of by lowering it you might make a voice source come from a pipe.

The wonders of a simple Reverb never ceases to amaze me.

As well as this, adding a ping-pong or auto-filter delay upon a sound can be wonderous; the addition of a pan to this is powerful to say the least. Reminiscent of the Acid Folk of the late 1960s, bands like Comus, utilised these to great effect, then being on the cusp of new effectation, they astonished hippies ears yet hung on the brink of obscurity.



It's simple, yet effective manipulation of sound should be a lot more widely used to morph any kind of sound into a trippy mixture of panning and echoes.