Sonic Design Blog Gam Chee Xuan

During Week 9, we learnt on how to do background noise reduction and reduce any noise such as breathing and stuttering noises from the narrator or announcer. I was taught that most audio or voice only audio are supposed to not have any additional noise, and these audios are usually used in amusement park audios or advertisement announcers in stores. I was allowed to use the audio equipment available in Taylors to record the audio for our weekly exercise. I was assigned as the assistant to determine if the audio was audible and clear enough so only a few edits and noise reduction is needed. Figure 9.1 Testing the audio equipment for the first time After the testing was done, I got the audio file sample to use to do my weekly activity. Figure 9.2 : The audio files used The audio files I used are the sample file we recorded, the background music relating to a car advertisement, some echoes and some car sound effects. I also added full reverb for the echoes so that it does sound more reali...

During these 2 weeks, I was tasked to finalize my Project 1 for Sonic Design. My lecturer, Mr Razif have gave us a few tips on how to perform well on this Project 1. The tips are as follow: Decide on which atmosphere the sound should imitate. The sound should fit or be as close as possible to the audio composition that I am making for the project. For instance, since the project I'm doing is everyday life. It is best to have background ambience of having electric fans swinging sound and bird chirping in the morning, this is to give morning vibes for anyone that listens to this audio. Labelling and organizing audio files and the multitrack session. Naming the audio file and naming each track in the multitrack session would make it easier for the multitrack to be composed as there will be label indication which sound it represents. Using audio related functions such as panning and hard limiter. Panning allows the audio to be heard only on one side such as left or right, while hard li...