3 Sound Design Secrets That Feel Like CHEATING
Herman Huang
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0:01 Doom scrolling on mute has made us forget how powerful sound really is pretty visuals grab your attention but it sound that keeps you
0:15 hooked I'm going to share the three sound design techniques that took me 16 years to master but it only take you a few minutes to learn using these three
0:23 alone will instantly upgrade your work but for each technique I'm going to share a secret cheat code that made the biggest difference in my work so you
0:30 won't want to miss any of these my sound effects used to sound really flat and boring it wasn't necessarily the sounds that I used but
0:38 it was how I used it now the best example I can give is a whoosh a single whoosh can be okay for matching visuals of a small
0:46 movement but when there's a big dramatic one a single whoosh isn't quite enough finding a deeper whoosh will help but still lacks
0:55 weight thinking about sounds in different frequencies is what solved the problem [Music]
1:04 so imagine layering a cake where each layer adds a unique flavor except on an audio Spectrum it looks more like this now by layering sounds with different
1:12 frequencies you can achieve a much more full Dynamic Sound instead of scrolling endlessly for the right sound effects thinking in
1:20 layers puts you miles ahead now the cheat code for using this technique is applying it outside of sound effects like with your dialogue and your music I
1:28 used to throw my dialog track right onto my timeline and then lower the gain of my background music and just call it a day but ever since I saw a tutorial from
1:36 my buddy Dave I've been using this technique he shared in every video I've ever edited since I've learned it instead of using the DSR effect for its
1:43 intended purpose you can use it to carve out a pocket in the mid- frequencies of your music
1:50 track your dialogue naturally sits in that pocket and you can always EQ it to cut off the low and high ends for a better fit but this technique gives each
1:59 element its own space resulting in a fuller mix a lot of you have asked me where I get my sound effects from and my go-to answer has always been art list
2:08 but a secret weapon I've been using for years is soundpacks from Happy editing I'm really excited that the sponsoring this video and I want to show you how I
2:15 use their packs to make my videos stand out first let's have a listen of this promo cut using sound effects that's scattered across different sources and
2:22 genres [Music]
2:37 so it sounds pretty good but it does feel a little bit safe because I'm using the same set of sounds that I would for any video I work on having a broad
2:44 library of sound effects is amazing when you're working on a lot of different genres of videos but if you're working on an athletic commercial and you're
2:51 using the same sound effects that you would for a wedding video or corporate video you're not going to get the best results now let's replace the sounds
2:57 with ones from Happy editing's transition sound effects pack this pack covers all the category of sounds that I frequently use when I'm editing like
3:04 risers hits and whooshes especially whooshes let's take a listen he the difference the sound matches the visual aesthetic and feels
3:25 way more coherent and that's the main tip that I want to share commit to a style instead of mixing random sounds gritty Basse hits aren't going to work
3:32 for your corporate videos the same way clean bell dings won't work for your street wear promo soundpacks have been the easiest way for me to keep my style
3:40 consistent or to keep a specific video feeling consistent most of the Glitchy sound effects that you hear in my work have been from Happy editing so if you
3:47 like the sounds that you heard check out this transition sound effects pack with the link below huge thank you to happy editing for sponsoring this video
3:53 keeping this tip in mind the cheat code I'll sometimes use to make my video Stand Out is using sounds that do not not match the visuals this was inspired
4:01 by the show Euphoria where the director uses something they call emotional realism the cinematography on the show portrays how the characters feel in
4:08 their environment rather than what's literally happening I took that same principle and applied it to sound design so in a video I made called The Vessel
4:15 and the filter it's just shots of me making coffee but the message is how making coffee is similar to our creative process as filmmakers to add more weight
4:24 to the visuals I replac the literal sounds with only nature sounds coffee grounds breaking became the crackling of icebergs and the swish of coffee
4:32 transformed into an ocean crash by limiting myself to only nature sounds and intentionally mismatching the visuals you can create a deeper
4:42 experience for your audience okay so let's say you're editing a 30second promo video and you want to use a song that's 3 minutes how do you cut the
4:50 music to fit in that video length I had a lot of trouble trimming Down music when I first started because ending a song early felt like just driving and
4:57 then suddenly slamming my brakes the remix feature in premere does a pretty good job but most of the time I need more control to fit the visuals or to
5:05 emphasize key moments so after watching endless amounts of movie trailers and promo videos I'm going to share my favorite way to transition in and out of
5:13 a song If the song you're using doesn't have a natural lead in you can use the beginning beat of the song Reverse it and use it as a riser to
5:24 naturally ease into the song If the beginning beat doesn't work you can always try reversing the tail end of the song to use as a riser as
5:35 well this method is a great way to introduce a new song in the same video or to get back into a song after a bridge or a quiet moment of the
5:43 [Applause] song now the way that I like to get out of a song is adding a Reverb on the final beat all I do is cut before the
5:52 next beat hits cut the beginning of the beat Nest it extend the nested sequence by placing something else further down the timeline in this case I just
6:00 duplicate that section disable it and move it down further so we don't hear it a second time and then I go back to the main timeline and add a studio Reverb on
6:08 it you can play with different presets to find the best fit but usually I like to start out with the Great Hall preset this is without the
6:16 [Music] Reverb and this is with the [Music] Reverb sometimes I'll do a little fade
6:25 at the end of the original track and then play the Reverb version underneath like this
6:33 using these two methods already gets you great and natural sounding results but the cheat code that I use to make it feel absolutely seamless is layering
6:40 sound effects on top of these methods so to ease into a track I look for sounds like risers swells or suckback to layer underneath like
6:50 this they're also great for getting out of a song to emphasize moments in your videos like this I don't know if you noticed but you
6:57 got a crack in your windshield if you want the ending of your song to hit harder don't be afraid to add these sounds as well and even impacts slams or
7:05 hits to wrap it all up with a bang the quality of my sound design improved drastically after applying
7:13 these three techniques so let me know in the comments if they helped you as well [Music]