Home Made Music

 Music Clip 1

For this piece of music which I created I found a  beat on Garage band which had a flute. I was trying to find a Sound which sounded creepy and the flute sounded like the best option. It was in a Latin tune and therefore I needed to edit it in order to make it sound sinister and scary for out film opening. This is my favourite tune that I made because I think that it conforms the most with the  video which we are doing as it sounds carnival like and also quite scary as it isn't something which we would like listening to. 

The piece of music. 

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For the compressor I decided to change the Ratio and the Attack and this therefore made the tune a little bit slower and also that I wouldn't be as attacking as it was before and therefore this took off the screech that it had after the effects had been added therefore make it less high pitch on the viewers ears. 

This is the master echo and Reverb and this gives you the chance to change the echoing of the instrument which I altered slightly in order to make sure that the flute had some echo and turned the reverb right up so that it had a twang to it when it echoed. 

This reduces high frequencies however I wanted certain parts on a higher frequency than other but I didn't want the frequency to be extremely high and therefore I turned it down a bit. This meant that it on the really high pitches of the flute it is quite high but on the lower notes its ok. The higher pitch is meant to make it feel awkward for the viewer to listen to. 

This is the first of the two phasers which I applied and with this one I turned up the intensity so that the phaser could be heard quite clearly but without being too intense. I slowed down the speed completely so that it was slow however this gave it a poor feedback and therefore made it less effective in the long run. Then the feedback was high and this gave it the sort of guitar type sound and therefore completely changed the sound of the instrument. 

This is the second phaser which I added and this time I made the Intensity and the Speed the highest it could possibly be and this would counter act the other one how the feedback was low and therefore it wasn't as prominent as the other one however it did have an effect and the two phasers worked really well together in this piece of music to shape the instrument into something with a much different sound which makes it more scary and sinister. 

I turned the bass really far down and therefore it was a more authentic sound and therefore this meant that the sound wasn't swallowed by the bass at all because it wasn't there and therefore it was just the sound playing as this piece of
sound didn't need the bass other wise it wouldn't work as well with the emotion it is trying to get across. 

 Music Clip 2

For this piece of music I used a drum instead of a scarier instrument. With this one I decided to make a heart beat type of beat that would go along with an intense scene or something like that and therefore I wanted to create something with bass and a deep sound to it in order to mirror that of a heart beat and also what I have heard in films before. I really like this one as I do feel it does sound like a heart beat however it might need a little bit more editing done to it in order to make it fully effective.  

This is the piece of music. 

This is the bass amp and I used this is order to make the bass behind the beat that plays. By adding a bass too it I created more depth to the sound and therefore making it sound a little bit more like a heart beat rather than a flatter beat which might not have been so effective in creating something near to a beat. I decided to turn up all the different dials but not the High one because otherwise the beat because more high pitched and unbearable. 

For the Master echo and reverb I decided not to put any echo onto this one because when I did it didn't sound very good and it distorted it too much.  

I turned down the attack completely but I did turn up the threshold and also the gain which made it more prominent but without it becoming too high pitched and therefore decided not too turn everything up because you completely lost the beat and it became a long screeching beat. 

I added no Visual EQ to this music clip.  

In order to take away the screech from the beat I decided to turn down the Treble Reduction and therefore this meant that the frequency wasn't as high and therefore the notes where slightly flatter but with more bass behind them. 

Music Clip 3

Again I wanted to create a piece of music which wasn't normal and therefore needed a lot of distortion in order to make it more psychological rather than the drum beat before. I chose trombones this time as again I thought that they were more scarier than the other instruments that Garage Band had on offer. I like this one but at the same time I don't because there is something about the sound which puts me off it and therefore it needs more work if its going to be used in the future. 

This is the piece of Music. 

With the compressor this time only the ratio is turned completely down low whereas the others are scattered because if the threshold was turned up to high then the sound started to screech and also the attack needed to be turned down because it wasn't as effective with it turned up higher. The Gain is just off centre and therefore this means that it has hardly been touched however it is a little low. 

I added a distortion to this piece of music and for this distortion I decided that it would be of a brighter and more happy tone because then it would subvert what was happening on the screen and create a contrast. I turned up the drive slightly to make it go a little bit faster but kept the output level low because otherwise it would be extremely loud. 

The Flanger is another form of a distortion and for this one the only one I drastically changed was the intensity and I think it would be this effect that I would need to re-think if we wanted to use it in the future however it may not need to be changed at all.  

Again I used the phaser for extra distortion and therefore this time I turned down the Intensity and the Speed but made the Feedback higher and therefore this means that the viewer could hear it.  

I added no echo to this track however I did turn up the reverb slightly. 

I added no Visual EQ to this track.