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Oct 13, 2020 |

How to Design Fierce Creature Vocals – Huge Sound Design Tutorial (includes 26 free SFX!)

By Asbjoern Andersen
Creature vocals sound design guide
Want to learn how to design creature vocalizations? Chase Steele is back with a new in-depth tutorial, covering everything from sourcing and layering creature source material to editing, processing and transforming those recordings into some mean creature vocals. And as a bonus, he's throwing in 26 sound effects for you, completely free!

Topics & playing times:

1:25 Design Overview • 3:52 Creature Source Material • 5:24 Layer Breakdown / No FX • 9:00 Layer Volume Sidechaining • 12:55 Layer Breakdown / W FX • 18:35 Vocalsynth Overview • 28:51 Rendered Subprojects Edits


 

Download a selection of 26 Sandhill Crane recordings from this project here – absolutely free! (updated link)


In addition to the free sounds above, Chase Steele also uses source material from the Vibrations Bowed Materals 1 library in the video – you can learn more about that library here

A big thanks to Chase Steele and Sound Spark LLC for exclusively hosting this video on A Sound Effect. Find the Sound Spark Youtube channel here, and meet Sound Spark on Twitter here.

 
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Want to learn more about creature sound design? Check out these guides below:

• Why rocks rock for creature sound design – with Thomas Rex Beverly
• Creature Sound Design Insights from David Farmer, sound designer on The Hobbit & LOTR
• Video: Paula Fairfield talks ‘Game of Thrones’ creature sound design
• Award-winning sound designer David Farmer shares tips, tricks & techniques from working 25+ years in sound
• How Randy Thom & Al Nelson crafted ‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’s impressively evocative sound


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