How do I drop low frequency?

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How do I drop low frequency?

Post by gntfu » Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:23 am

I'm trying to make it sound like you are in hearing thunder while inside of a cave but I need help!
I FEEL LIKE IT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME AND I'M JUST MISSING IT. :D

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Re: How do I drop low frequency?

Post by Gale Andrews » Thu Aug 28, 2014 5:15 pm

gntfu wrote:I'm trying to make it sound like you are in hearing thunder while inside of a cave but I need help!
If you want to make an effect where the pitch reduces, try Effect > Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift... .

If you want reverb, see Effect > Reverb... .

If you want to increase or decrease how loud certain frequencies are, use Effect > Equalization... .



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Re: How do I drop low frequency?

Post by gntfu » Thu Aug 28, 2014 5:21 pm

Gale Andrews wrote:
gntfu wrote:I'm trying to make it sound like you are in hearing thunder while inside of a cave but I need help!
If you want to make an effect where the pitch reduces, try Effect > Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift... .

If you want reverb, see Effect > Reverb... .

If you want to increase or decrease how loud certain frequencies are, use Effect > Equalization... .



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Okay I'll try it out and let you know my results.

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Re: How do I drop low frequency?

Post by gntfu » Thu Aug 28, 2014 5:38 pm

It's prefect thanks. I have one more question you might be able to help me out. I have and High quality recording of thunder and rain and i want it to sound like your hearing from inside of a cave. so if your in a cave and there is a thunder storm out side and you can hear the thunder from inside the cave what would be the best effects to use in your opinion?
Thanks!

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Re: How do I drop low frequency?

Post by Robert J. H. » Thu Aug 28, 2014 8:57 pm

This might not really help you.
Some time ago, I wrote a Nyquist code snippet to emulate an explosion in a mine.
cave-explosion.wav
(632.12 KiB) Downloaded 34 times
I would probably use a long chain of echoes since the thunder bounces off all the cave's walls.

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Re: How do I drop low frequency?

Post by Tim Lookingbill » Thu Aug 28, 2014 9:51 pm

gntfu wrote:It's prefect thanks. I have one more question you might be able to help me out. I have and High quality recording of thunder and rain and i want it to sound like your hearing from inside of a cave. so if your in a cave and there is a thunder storm out side and you can hear the thunder from inside the cave what would be the best effects to use in your opinion?
Thanks!
That suggests the thunder and rain must sound as if it's coming from a more distant and expanded space which requires a more pronounced, confined and up front stereo imaging stage within the cave to contrast against the reduced volume but more opened up sound stage of the outside thunder/rain. Tweaking Room size against Reverberance and Tone Low and Tone High settings in Audacity's Reverb... tool might deliver these results.

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Re: How do I drop low frequency?

Post by Gale Andrews » Fri Aug 29, 2014 2:36 am

Tim Lookingbill wrote:
gntfu wrote:It's prefect thanks. I have one more question you might be able to help me out. I have and High quality recording of thunder and rain and i want it to sound like your hearing from inside of a cave. so if your in a cave and there is a thunder storm out side and you can hear the thunder from inside the cave what would be the best effects to use in your opinion?
Thanks!
That suggests the thunder and rain must sound as if it's coming from a more distant and expanded space which requires a more pronounced, confined and up front stereo imaging stage within the cave to contrast against the reduced volume but more opened up sound stage of the outside thunder/rain. Tweaking Room size against Reverberance and Tone Low and Tone High settings in Audacity's Reverb... tool might deliver these results.
Thanks. That suggests then that you may want to Edit > Duplicate the "thunder and rain" track then work on one copy as the audio inside the cave and the other copy as the audio outside the cave.

You may want to use the -....+ gain sliders on the tracks to reduce the outside audio by more than the inside audio.


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