sound: dull sound

Patryk Rebisz wrote on 6/11/2005, 6:12 PM

another sound question: what's the best way (aside from recording it certain way) to make a sound appear as if dulled down by headphones -- kind of like as if outside sound heard while you had headphones on...????

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Spot|DSE wrote on 6/11/2005, 6:30 PM

Patryk
If it's just dulled, such as wearing headphones indoors but hearing music outside a house, it's a simple matter of dulling down all frequencies above around 300 Hz or so, and potentially popping it just a bit in the 250 range. This will be dependent on the sound that is "outside." If the outside sound is in the building, but not in the room that the listener with the headphones is in, a little reverb will suggest the sound is in the building, since virtually all buildings will have some reverb. Adding just a touch of reverb and then mixing the sound so there is more reverb than the dry sound will complete the effect, again dependent on the size of the "building" you're trying to suggest is there.
HTH

Patryk Rebisz wrote on 6/11/2005, 7:25 PM

Spot, i think you assume that i knoe more about sound then i really do... How would i "dulling down all frequencies above around 300 Hz or so"?

B.Verlik wrote on 6/11/2005, 7:47 PM

If you click on your audio FX button (the green button in your audio track), then click on the button in the new window that opens, next to the X'd out button(Plug-in chain, when you hover mouse pointer over it) You'll see a bunch of FX you can add. Choose graphic EQ (easiest to understand at first), this is a sophisticated tone control that divides your overall tone into little "channels". Each slider bar controls one of the tone channels. The bass frequencies are on the left and go from about 20 to 300 Hz. The mid frequencies are just to the right of that and your treble frequencies start at about 1000Hz and go all the way to the far right, the end of the treble range. So, the bassiest frequencies start on the far left and slowly rise as you go towards the right. You may have to open that window larger to see the numbers at the bottom. If the control knob is in the center, you're not affecting the frequency, if you slide it down from center, you are decreasing that frequency. If you slide it up from center, you are increasing that frequency. There are also some presets in the drop down of all the EQs (Equalizers, and there are a few to try), so you may not have to do too much experimenting.
Edit: Don't forget to click on either the 10 band or 20 band 'Tab' at bottom of EQ to access the actual sliders. And in the 'Plug-in Chain' is also the reverb FX too.

Patryk Rebisz wrote on 6/11/2005, 7:58 PM

HUGE thanks!!!