Sound effect

engineer’s might bring in effects to a vocal track is mostly to create an aural space or even to add excitement. Many engineers describe effects as something that can make the vocal track sound deeper, wider or even bigger. “Everything has to be bigger always. Effects are makeup. It’s cosmetic surgery. I can take a very great song by a very great band and mix it with no effects on it at all, and it’ll sound good, and I can take the same song and mix it with effects and it’ll sound fantastic!” -…

chapter in Don Campbell and Alex Doman’s book, Healing at the Speed of Sound, provides several interesting points about a personal sound diet. As a musician, I found many of the points very relatable to my training and experiences. Here are a few I found the most relatable. One of the first points of the chapter stresses how listening is subjective. Especially in music, listening to a certain kind of music can have an effect on you posture, mood, and emotion. This change can be small and…

avoid unnecessary hearing loss by controlling the volume of sound around them.. If you answered yes to the beginning questions about ringing in the ears, you are probably suffering from tinnitus, the detection of sound with out external sound being present, which is a common symptom of noise-induced hearing loss (Sanders). Noise-induced hearing loss, damage to hearing as a result of being exposed to loud sound, is a common side effect of listening to loud music (Sliwinska-Kowalska et al.).…

frequencies of sound, but they also use fatty cushions in the feet pads to detect vibrations by bone conductions. Whales abandoned their external ears to be able to swim faster, but they have also enhanced their hearing due to the exceptional way…

known as glue ear. Hearing loss typically occurs in part of the outer ear if it is congested. This then causes the sound waves incapable of reaching the middle or inner section of the ear. A conductive hearing loss can transpire in the outer or middle ear region containing poor conduction of sound along the channels leading primarily to the inner part of the ear. Due to this, sound is not focused well and is spread in a weaker and more muted mode. These types of losses are naturally not as…

When you wake up in the morning what is the first sound you hear? Is it an alarm clock, someone saying good morning, the fan humming or the birds singing outside? Now imagine if that noise was gone along with every other noise you hear as well. People take for granted the abilities they have, sadly there is a group of people who do not have this ability. Most people are unaware of the amount of people who are deaf in the United States. “In the United States, approximately 1,000,000 people (0.38%…

The first element is distinguishing the prominent feature of the room, such as the sound booth would be to record the music as perfect as possible canceling all outside noise, while a large-scale concert hall factors such as volume level and background noise become issues. Some less than extraordinary performance halls recently can be…

has become clear that food (and confectionery in particular) always brings back strong, detailed memories in participants. The reason behind this is something that has not yet been widely researched; although there are some texts available on the effects of the visual and auditory senses on memory, there is very little on the other senses (Baddeley, 1997, p9). The consumption of confectionery uses all five main human senses (to various extents), and therefore provides a perfect platform to…

This is very prominent in Scott Pilgrim, one notable scene utilising a split screen during a phone call to then pan across the room previously obscured by the split, then a chair carries the shot to an outside scene, while a comic book style bell sound adds fluidity between the scenes (see figure…

Surround sound is a system of stereophonic sound involving three or more speakers surrounding the listener to create a more realistic effect. What is surround sound? surround sound can be translated as a atmospheric sound manipulation. Manipulation of the mind is caused by the placement of speakers to give the allusion to the listener to feel like they are in the 1st person prospective. Surround sound is a technique for enriching the Sound Reproduction quality of an audio source with three or…