How to make sound muffled?

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Ruriko
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How to make sound muffled?

Post by Ruriko » Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:45 am

I have a missile sound effect that's flying all over the place and I was wondering how can I make it sound muffled when it flies around a large rock cliff?
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Re: How to make sound muffled?

Post by kozikowski » Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:27 am

This sounds like one of our television commercial clients. "You have to pull off a complex special effect and you have two seconds, Have a good time."

Any way to get maybe five or six seconds of base sound?

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Re: How to make sound muffled?

Post by steve » Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:33 am

Make a copy of the track (select the track, then Ctrl+D)
Apply the "low-pass filter" (Effect menu)

Try the default settings in the low-pass filter first. To make it more muffled, increase the "Rolloff" setting or lower the "Cutoff frequency" (leave the filter quality at 0.7071).

Then use the fade-in and fade-out effects to cross fade from the original track to the filtered copy.
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