We recently received a request from an eager viewer:
Hi! I have been a long-term fan of The Loud House and The Casagrandes and I manage to pay attention a lot on the sound-effects work in those shows (as an audiophile myself, I can't miss it)
I wanted to know if you guys can maybe write a blog on how to design a wobbly-flashback / dream sequence sound effects? I notice on both shows mentioned that there's a specific designed metal-sheet wobble sound effect (with a harp glissando) whenever there's a flashback or a dream scene in those shows and I always wondered how do you guys make that. If you can write about that on how to design such stuff I'd really appreciate that!
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First off, thanks!! I’m a long-term Loud House fan too! I’m so flattered that you listen so intensely. It’s so exciting to me that something I created so long ago still resonates with listeners! I designed this effect about nine years ago, so I don’t know all of the specifics on how I made it, but I did find the final layers I used:
I think my thought process was to create something that had plenty of fluctuation to it that went up in pitch when going into the daydream, and down in pitch when shifting back to reality. I’m not exactly sure on the processing, but it sounds like I ran a vibraphone trill and a synthy sounding whoosh through a delay and layered those with harp glisses. It also sounds like I did a bit of pitch processing as well.
Thanks for the question! It was fun to revisit this design.
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