Exercise: Sound Transplantation 2018

Assignment

  • Take a sound from the previous exercise (2s or more) that you have analyzed
  • Now try to imitate this sound by using a different sound as the material. eg transplantation of the "materiality" of sound 2 on the time course of sound 1
    • Example: You have a recording of a zipper and another recording of a windshield wiper. Now you try to mimic with the recording of the zipper the sound of the windshield wiper.


Procedure

Step 1

  • Select the target sound and material sound
  • Focus on the temporal course of the volume and build it up (editing, volume editing)
  • Use pitch and time correction to further adjust the sound

Step 2

  • Use the parametric EQ and PitchShift to further adjust the frequency spectrum
  • Also experiment with reverb and delay

Step 3

  • Use automation envelopes for detailed editing
  • Export / Render the sound in wav / aiff, 48khz / 24bit, mono


Delivery

Please put the following on the server in the appropriate folder:

  • Target Sound: what you "imitate" (name: "target_...")
  • Material Sound: The recording that served as the base material for the imitation (name: "material_...")
  • Result: the "transplanted" final sound (name: "result_...")