FALLOT_Roxane_2018_2019_Spaceship_blasts.wav

I wanted to create spaceship’s blasts and it was difficult to create something everyone would immediately recognize. I only used Audacity and created that sound from scratch. Therefore I used a lot of effects to create noises that I squeezed again and again until it sounds good enough. At the very beginning I generated a sawtooth chirp (1200Hz - 50Hz ; 0.7 - 0.7) of 2s. I duplicated it, moved it around and merged both tracks, it gave me a more saturated and crispy noise. I used the phaser effect (2 stages, dry/wet : 200, LFO Hz : 0.7, LFO deg : 0, Depth :70). I created a white noise (0.8) of 2s with a fade in and a fade out. I created my blasting sound with those both tracks. I used the distortion a lot, played with the deeps to create the “deflagration” effect. I wanted a kind of soft “loading” and mechanical thing to announce the blast, as if the ship gathered power in its weapons before shooting it through space. Once I obtained the loading sound and the blasting explosion, I reduced the loading sounds and duplicate three times the blasting to imitate three shots. I reduced a bit the speed of the last one and used a fade out, as if less power were left in the ship.

Descriptif selon la typologie/morphologie de P.Schaeffer :

Cet objet sonore est à la fois continu complexe X et continu varié V. Ce son est un son cannelé dans lequel on retrouve un groupe nodal ainsi que quelques hauteurs. Le timbre harmonique de ce son est, selon moi, acide. Il est doté d’un fort grain et d’une rugosité très saturée. Ce son possède un vibrato qui se répète à trois reprises. Sa dynamique est agressive tout en étant graduelle. Le profil mélodique est scalaire. Il y n’y a pas d’équalisation.