Hello peps.
Another week another blogg post.
This week I’ve been focusing entirely on sound. Sound Effects which I’ve been struggling with a lot. So this week I had enough with programs that did’t want to work with me and started using FL Studio. The program is created for house music mainly but it has been working fine for me in creating sound effects. At the same time I got to borrow a extern music card, headphones and mic from a buddy of mine. This supported me greatly in recording sound effects for the game like a bubble sound that plays when the avatar dashes.
In the sound making as itself it was a jungle, for a person like me who’ve only dealt with pre-recorded sound effects and voice recording. About half way through the sound effects I feel like I have no idea in what I am doing, clearly I should learn an instrument to be able to understand tones and notes. But this far I’ve been able to create what I’ve had in mind, and I hope my sound effects will be able to help convey what we want to tell the player with the game.
One particular sound effect that I am particular proud with is the bubble noice. It took me about a 4-5 hours to create the sound that I was happy with and how I created the sound was by recording myself blowing bubbles into milk. I tried several different beverages to gain the perfect sound for the bubbles. I think I started out with normal water then went over to water including soap. I also tried using soda but it wasn’t working out as properly as I intended.
I Think the milk was thick enough for the bubbles to give me the correct sound. The fat in the milk is what helped me out in the end. I wonder if making real bubbles with soap and recording them when they pop. One thing that would really have helped me with the sound engineering was to find a forum where the recording and creating of sound effects was discussed. The most forums I have found have been community forums to large free sound fx databases.
Next week is all post mortem that’s going to be focused. I don’t want to repeat what happened last time when I was too late to turn in the post mortem because of internet failure. Wish me luck!
Over and out Adam