The Soundsquatch Blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgTYljsPtuk Make $100 or more per hour with your voice, and a computer! Step 1.  Sign up for a free trial at soundsquatch.com and download all the FX and music beds you need to create podcast intros. Step 2. Do some networking, and...

https://youtu.be/EZBFAoJxyjg This week the Soundsquatch recorded the sound of a rain stick. We took this opportunity to show how to layer multiple sounds together to create something that sounds a bit realistic. An impact sound needs low end (boom, rumble, reverb),...

https://youtu.be/aea2b3B7ygg This week we're using Adobe Audition's scrub function to generate and manipulate sound to make elements. The scrub function allows you to play sounds backward and forward at different speeds and lengths of time. This back and forth motion...

https://youtu.be/af5bu4ZapV8 This week we recorded a nail gun and added some other sounds to make a cool rising sound design piece. Here were the simple steps... 1. Record a high-quality sound with a Tascam field recorder. 2. Generate a tone in Adobe Audition, and add...

https://youtu.be/BkGePP5T_L0 In part 2 of this series, we took some sounds that the Soundsquatch made, and cut parts of them up to stick them on tempo with a music bed. Then we cut most of the music bed away leaving us with a cool musical element with a mechanical...

https://youtu.be/S_ny4vp3Pd0 If your sound library is a little tired, try creating new sounds by cutting up old sound effects and putting them on time with the beats in a song. Then cut away the song and you're left with a rhythmic sound effect, and something new to...

https://youtu.be/4wJa6JVfUNs This week the Soundsquatch was working on a music bed to use in a video and mixed it down. He came in the next day to discover that the drums weren't present enough in the mix for his liking. Here's how we fixed it... 1. We had the...

https://youtu.be/9NQFdAoeV2M This week the Soundsquatch recorded a couple of simple sounds for us.  Not a lot to work with in terms of raw material, but we were still able to make a cool sound design element by manipulating the audio, and mixing them with...

https://youtu.be/Gma_rys94CY This week the Soundsquatch recorded 2 simple sounds. A scraping sound, and a banging sound. We took these 2 sounds, messed with them, and layered them with some other sounds to make this impact. Here were the steps... 1. Take two...