i hate blurring sounds

user_542 · Post by **user_542** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:58 pm

i'm trying to create the audio equivalent of being without glasses and having blurred vision. how would you go about this if you had to do it?

user_305 · Post by **user_305** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:40 am

record the sound onto a 20 year old cassette, run that through a chorus and modulating delay. amplify through a tube amp.

user_542 · Post by **user_542** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:29 am

notech wrote:record the sound onto a 20 year old cassette, run that through a chorus and modulating delay. amplify through a tube amp.

I hadn't thought of that one. It sounds like it would work. Right now I'm blurring pure sinewave tones by adding other sinewave tones that slowly pitch shift by about a quarter tone, in stereo, with one sinewave bending pitch higher about 1/4, the other sinewave bending pitch lower about 1/4. It sounds ok. Next I'm going to try this technique with bass guitar samples instead of sinewaves. I figure I'll remove their attacks.

I'd try your idea but I lack a 20 year old cassette and I don't know what a modulating delay is.

user_305 · Post by **user_305** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:19 am

you're essentially making a chorus effect with the quarter tone thing. a modulating delay (at least that's what my one vst is called... 'mod delay') is just a delay that puts a chorus effect on the delay, each echo gets more and more modulated. it makes for making really good hazy sounds. cassettes are good whenever you need to dirty up a sound.

user_542 · Post by **user_542** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:49 pm

notech wrote:you're essentially making a chorus effect with the quarter tone thing. a modulating delay (at least that's what my one vst is called... 'mod delay') is just a delay that puts a chorus effect on the delay, each echo gets more and more modulated. it makes for making really good hazy sounds. cassettes are good whenever you need to dirty up a sound.

I tried creating my own modulating delay by using a very slow vibrato and a chorus effect on my delayed sounds, it definitely muddied the waters some more. Thanks for the tip!