Faking an audience

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Whyte Ice

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I have a song that sounds like its missing something and I'm trying different things to add life to it and the thought came to me to fake an audience. I'm kind of looking for the Intro to Sgt. Pepper type feel but I know they used a real audience for that.

So what are some good ways I could do this on my own or with equipment I have?
 
what equip do you have?....

you could do it with samples?.....
 
I could use samples but I don't want all of it to be sampled.

I have a Dr. Rhythm drum machine which can simulate handclaps and the same goes with my synth.

I also have this old keyboard that makes these audience noises but it sounds too fake to use.
 
next time you go somewhere with a large crowd bring along a recorder nad record a whole tape/disc of crowd noise.....edit it down to the best parts.....
 
or hire about 100 people to come into your studio and make noise.....
 
If you can bounce enough tracks just record yourself and some friends making noise and do several tracks. Give each track a few seconds of delay and you will have a big crowd. At least a club size crowd.
 
On Led Zeppelins live disc "the Song Remains the Same" there are several passages of croud noise about a minute long. And Its a Full Madison Square Garden Croud.

Ive used this for the same reason. dont forget to add a reverb to the music that is apropriate for that room.
 
I've thought about taking an audience from a live recording I have on disc but if I were to ever release this, wouldn't I have to pay some kind of royalties?
 
No, no royalties were given to the people in the crowd for being recorded. It would be really hard for someone to collect royalties for crowd noise unless there was something very distintive about the noise (i.e. like the crowd chanting {insert bandname here}. But, if your conscience was really bothering you, you might want to try sampling a crowd on your own...


Vice
 
Id beg to differ with that vv.....

even those those people arent paid, that recording is registered for a copyright id bet...not just the music but the actual sound recording (form SR).....

now i dont imagine that unless this new recording makes it really big that you have anything to worry about it...if it does go big, SOMEONE will pick up on the noise....you may think its just any old crowd noise but id say there are poeple that know that CD inside and out.....
 
You could always try and change the crowed noise enough so that it won't sound the same.

He gidge, if you take a sample and slow it down alot, so that it sounds really really different, do you still have to get permission to use it?
 
Just an idea

Maybe you can record a crowd from the TV (NFL, NBA or Italian soccer) just in the parts they are shouting and nobody is making a comment...you can get a cool sample with that...maybe you can mix different audiences in one BIIIIIG crowd.

Peace.

PC
 
I could probably take the audience out of a bootleg recording of a live gig and use that since I don't think unofficial bootleg recordings are copyrighted.
 
you can go with any of the above mentioned suggestions...if you make enough money off of it for anyone to make a copyright infringement, im sure youll be more than willing to pay them off......
 
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