Sound effects? (Think Judas Priest)

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I want to use sound effects in my music, something similar to Judas Priest. I have FL Studios and I've experimented with it. I usually just find a common effect and play it 2 or 3 octaves down to get something to what I'm looking for. Is there a specific way to make effects, because I don't know how. Maybe with synths? Also, because close to no one can help me find specific sounds like Judas Priest's, does anyone know where I can get some free sound packs for FL Stuidos?
 
kerrang197 said:
I want to use sound effects in my music, something similar to Judas Priest. I have FL Studios and I've experimented with it. I usually just find a common effect and play it 2 or 3 octaves down to get something to what I'm looking for. Is there a specific way to make effects, because I don't know how. Maybe with synths? Also, because close to no one can help me find specific sounds like Judas Priest's, does anyone know where I can get some free sound packs for FL Stuidos?
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Judas priest has a HUGE catalogue... it would help to be a little more specific.
 
Mainly verbs and delays of various times and as FP pointed out there are many to choose from.



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Like from the Painkiller album and the Angel of Retribution album. I'd really like to get that effect that's used in the beginning of "Battle Hymn"
 
I don't have those song in my library could you put up a link or u-tube post....thanks.



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kerrang197 said:
Like from the Painkiller album and the Angel of Retribution album. I'd really like to get that effect that's used in the beginning of "Battle Hymn"
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Great albums by the way... I went and saw those dudes right after they release Nostradamus with Black Sabbath, Testament, and Motorhead... it was awesome! And I saw them a few months back on the British Steel anniversarry tour... that was really sweet too!

As for the sound effects, you're probably better off experimenting with different soft synths and messing with pitch shifting, verbs, modulation, etc...
 
Interesting band, Judas Priest. I really like the "British steel" album so I confess to living in a bygone era where they are concerned. In fact, where alot of music is concerned ! Some years back, I saw one of those "Classic albums" programmes where a band comes on and talks about the recording of their classic album and Judas (:D) came on spoke about the making of 'British steel'. Glen Tipton or KK Downing spoke about the FX that they used on "Metal Gods" to get that metallic crunching sound - heavilly compressed cutlery ! They just rattled a load of kitchen cutlery, tracked it a few times and used various compression settings. Is that the sort of thing you're talking about ?
In your OP, you specify "sound effects" and on that score, I want to encourage you to think a little outside the box and try and make up some crazy sounds, which may prove effective (grrroooaaannn.....sorry !). Honestly, the sky's the limit. The interesting thing is that funny little noises and sounds can elicit more attention from the listener than one realizes. You can do all kinds of bizarre things. Once, I miked up this clock and it wasn't loud so I had the preamp nearly up full. Still not much to write home about. So I ran it through this reverb unit I had and back into my recorder with the settings high with a long decay. Woah ! It was like a giant walking through an enormous cavern as each tick tocked. Eventually the whole noise built up and fed back on itself which was an unexpected bonus that I hadn't forseen. No one has ever guessed it was a clock. And in my old age as my memory goes, I'll probably be wondering what "that noise" is too !
The point is, try loads of daft things and have fun. Invent sounds and run them through regular FX in irregular ways. Make them up as you go along. And remember, no one can sue you !
 
Oh, an thanks for the advice. I never really thought about using random home recorded sounds and putting them through effects. It's similar to what I was doing before but I get the picture.
 
OK so.....I guess my question is ...Are the effects that you talk about on the vocals?



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kerrang197 said:
Oh, an thanks for the advice. I never really thought about using random home recorded sounds and putting them through effects. It's similar to what I was doing before but I get the picture.
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There are plenty of "found sounds" at home and also just in a general day, like babies crying, sirens wailing, bottles breaking, kettles boiling, toilets flushing, kids playing, birds tweeting, buses or trains going by etc. I live in an area that has a number of people of different races and religions and between October and January, about 6 or 7 events get celebrated with fireworks. For three months, it's like being in a war torn zone ! Anyway, one night, I stuck a mic out my kids' window, turned up the preamp as far as I could without hiss and recorded about 40 seconds of fireworks exploding (it was November 5th). I had to do it a few times to catch really good explosions. Eventually, I had three tracks of fireworks, recorded at different speeds and random explosions all over the place. It sounded fantastic. Freaked my kids out when they woke up but they loved it !
 
kerrang197 said:
listen to the song at around one minute and you'll hear 2 different kind of sound effects.
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One is vocal and one is guitar both are post punch ins and have heavy verb and a tapped delay to fit the timing of the song.



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minutiae...

as an old fart (41...) I remember a TV show showing the special effects of the original starwars in the early/mid 70's...

the T.I.E fighters "laser blast" was actually a small crescent wrench tapped lightly on a guy wire to a telephone pole. I TRIED it on teh way to school, and after about 20 hits, was able to reproduce it well enough I could tell it was the same sound!!
 
SEDstar said:
as an old fart (41...) I remember a TV show showing the special effects of the original starwars in the early/mid 70's...

the T.I.E fighters "laser blast" was actually a small crescent wrench tapped lightly on a guy wire to a telephone pole. I TRIED it on teh way to school, and after about 20 hits, was able to reproduce it well enough I could tell it was the same sound!!
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Hey SED I had seen the same show. I sort of remember it being a spoon that they used to hit the wire with.
But heck that was a life time ago in a galaxy far, far away.



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