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Heartbeat

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LookIMadeAThing

October 7th, 2014

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Music > Solo percussion

A heartbeat sound I created. Fairly consistent through most of it, and then speeds up into heart-attack mode about 30 seconds from the end.

To make it, I took a kick-drum sample and a snare-drum sample, and made a pattern of kick-snare, kick-snare, kick-snare, over and over. I then EQ'd them to be less distinct and drum-like, added tape saturation to increase the low-end thumping, a small chorus effect and some compression to get rid of the drums' attack...basically just over-processed the hell out of it. Then I used a plugin called Wok M-ST to get a fake hard-panned stereo effect.

My goal was to make it sound like your heartbeat sounds in your ears when you've been running too fast for too long. I think it sounds cool.

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anatomy
beating
body
fear
heart
heart-beat
heartbeat
hospital
medical
medicine
pulse
pulsing
pumping
running
sprinting

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

3:48.000

File size

57.5 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

24 bit

Channels

Stereo

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gtbrgr

1 year, 3 months ago

this awesome sound has propelled my thrilling hospital scene from a zero tuah hero. TYSM!

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thgmusikef

2 years, 10 months ago

thank you so much

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lindaoneal

3 years, 5 months ago

Thank you so much! I'm using this to create lessons for parents on how to teach their young children how to calm down when they have anxiety. Thank you!!!

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oyinlomo

8 years, 4 months ago

exactly what i wanted. Thanks

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3530caccioc

9 years, 2 months ago

Thanks! also using this for a class project

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