I've been doing stuff like backmasking and reverse reverb since my teenage years learning music. It's magical what effects you can create with just those few tricks.
Makes sense. Alot of classic rock bands I've listen to like Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones or The Beatles have made a couple psychedelic inspired songs which had a dark or sinister vibe to it.
You just gave me a ton of inspiration for the horror score I'm working on currently. I think it's amazing how some simple techniques can turn a normal recording into something frightening and unpredictable. Thank you for sharing these things with us!
WHOA!!! The backwards reverb with regular speech is such a cool trick! As soon as I heard it I instantly thought of the Nazgúl in The Lord of the Rings.
This is really great. I watch all of your videos and my favorite is the video where you taught about the creepy chords. And now this.. amazing.. great job Jake.
I've spent the last year making audio for Noir Nocturne, a VRchat Spookality world. It's got about an hour playtime so far and I've produced probably 90% of the world audio and music. I used every method in this video. For stretching the audio, I some times used Logic's "Flex time Telephone FX" on short transients like drums, clicks or pops. By stretching this short audio into maybe 10 sec I got this metallic, robotic kind of growl. Add some reverb and BOOM I had a sound for one of the enemies. The one thing I would add to your list of tricks is about EQ. In a lot of my environmental ambience I added a low frequency rumble with maybe some slow stereo modulation, something almost below human hearing. This could be white noise or a sine wave. Really anything with low end information. Then I really boosted the lows on my EQ for an in your head binaural kind of feeling. Because this is a VR experience I knew everyone playing it would be wearing headphones so I could get away with some more radical stereo widths. This trick works better for games or film as having a low rumble through your whole song would just muddy everything up.
I'm sorry but I couldn't stop laughing out loud when such serious and spooky concepts are explained with words and phrases like "STRAWBERRY!" or "POTATO CHIP!" 😂😂 thank you so much!
Although only 42, my wife knows and loves "In My Life"... so I have gotten to hear it a few million times myself. I thought that was a spinet, to go with the Bach-esque melodies during the lead break.
I love the way the engineers did the voice of Black Philip in The VVitch (I guess the goat is supposed to be the devil), but basically it sounds like numerous layers slightly delayed behind and shifted ahead of the main vocal recording, and then possibly some very light reversed reverb. You hear it especially in the line "wouldst thou like some butter" It'd be very cool for us amateur engineers to apply that to some dialogue of our own and experiment with it
I used TTS, and generated word by word a entire sentence, and placed each word half way between each other gave it some reverse reverb; doesn't sound that bad actually
This reminds me of the time I applied a ton of techniques like this to create a sound for a song. I snipped one word, time stretched it, cut a piece and stretched that too, about 4 more times, took the resulting mess, added distortion, reverb, reverse reverb, delay, muting, panning, flange/chorus and probably more I don't remember. That sound belonged in a horror movie for sure.
Duuude, shout outs for referrencing Heretic in this video! I personally never played it, but I played the hell out of Hexen, the sequel, as a kid. I love the soundtrack and sound design of this game and there were some truly haunting and terryfying things in there, I love it!
Thank you Niels! I can imagine many of your shop sounds would sound great in reverse - anything with a loud transient and a long tail works well like a hammer hitting steel
I think a good example of learning to play a solo backwards and then reversing it is Misunderstood by Dream Theater, where Petrucci did that half way through the song. I didn't really knew how he made that sound until I read it somewhere. Very cool technique !
man I've been watching you for years! thanks so much for everything you have contributed to the worlds understanding of music in your easily accessible lessons, I've never commented before but I have this burning question! I came across an artist named Gran Hechicero recently and I am just blind sided to how this guy makes his music, by any chance might you explain to me what this dude is doing!?
At audio school we made a horror audio play. We wrote ghost’s lines backwards and the guy who played our ghost just read the lines as writen and we reversed them. He nailed them with just one take and we got very creepy sounding voice!
Great techniques…as always. Can’t wait for your next drop. Have to check out your courses? I know you are a good teacher, and that I’m more of the “teach a man to fish” learner. I don’t start (easily) figuring stuff out, until I get the structural concepts. Learning snippets of music is useful, but doesn’t lead to same kind of expansion as learning a concept, than learning the music that illustrates it. I have a feeling that your courses will open me up in the same way?
Dude, Heretic is amazing game! Me and my best friend used to play it for hours on end back when we were 6 year old. Another game similar to Heretic is Killing Time, if you are guys into retro stuff.
I once experimented with a sine wave, put a bitcrusher and reverb on it. I rendered and reversed it. I pitched it a bit down and than I applied a flangegate to it, that was very horrifying, but sounded way too awesome. Like a robot, whoms inner curcuits explode and catch fire. :D
Great tips here. I am very experienced in creating this creeps sound but this is valuable experience I am glad to hear. The reverb is not explained though. At first it seems you have frozen and flattened but then it looks like you just slapped a reverb on for post. I will have fun checking out the difference myself. I have found that I would imagine there are some more extreme tools to Abletons stretching function as it is seemingly not designed for anything further than small adjustments
Me when I got the notification for this video: "Scary sounds? Mmm, yeah, not that much into that, maybe I'll skip this one. Well, it's Jake so let's have a look at what he says anyway." Me after watching the whole video: "Wow, that was super-interesting & very helpful!" 😅
Hey Jake! Love your content, i'm not sure if you read comments and take requests but here goes. Is there a possibility of a Cowboy Western style video? I love your way of using theory to explain how to get certain progressions and melodies and would really love something like this.
Wow. Jake is back. I've been waiting for a long time and watched every single video multiple times. It's a shame that I can't buy your rhythm course because I'm from Iran and I can't pay internationally but one day I'm gonna get it eventually.
@@fingerstyledojo I know but I don't wanna use it for free. I'm sure he's put a lot of effort and passion for this course and I'd like to thank him somehow. But thanks for the info my friend
All your content has without a doubt been epic and helpful t us all. If i may request you two videos 1) construction of a basic MESHUGGAH riff like stengah using maybe a 1/2 whole dimisnhed scale (verse,chorus,bridge etc) 2) Tracktion DAW tutorial thanx in advance......
I have a suggestion, can you make us a video talking about how to create songs forms of different genres and how to link ideas (intro-verse-pre chorus-chorud-bridge) ... 🙏
I've gotten a lot of mileage out of using these techniques on whale sounds and baby laughter. Baby laughter is really creepy when you reverse it and pitch it.
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potato chip
honestly my favorite part of the video lol
@@SignalsMusicStudio but you had better "brush your teeth" after the potato chip(s)
pihc otatop
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I half expected him to break out the full Death Note reference.
That “brush your teeth” sample sounds almost exactly like the Darkest Dungeon voice. Great explanation.
Yes! when I heard that I immediately thought of Wayne June
I never felt so scared before....
1:32 THAT'S ABSOLUTELY GENIUS!
I've been doing stuff like backmasking and reverse reverb since my teenage years learning music. It's magical what effects you can create with just those few tricks.
Exactly HOW does one reverse their vocals like that??
@@ShinyFlakesShinyFlakes say it backwards and reverse
It's interesting how similar psychedelic and spooky are...
As a psychedelic musician, I use a lot of these techniques!
Happens a lot in psychedelic trance production as well, especially the darker stuff. :D
Psychedelics can be pretty spooky
Does this mean you are on drugs!😒
@@fuckcensorship69shrooms have a dark vibe especially on the come up 4 me
Makes sense. Alot of classic rock bands I've listen to like Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones or The Beatles have made a couple psychedelic inspired songs which had a dark or sinister vibe to it.
when you said "please like this video and subscribe" the subscribe button kept glowing every time i played that part
Bro, I was just marking a score for my short horror movie a week ago, this would have been useful. Your old video was quite useful as well
It needed to be in time for Halloween obviously
I wanted this out earlier but I seem to always complete things at the last minute
-_-
@@SignalsMusicStudio That's what I always did at school. Or don't complete things at all xd
You just gave me a ton of inspiration for the horror score I'm working on currently. I think it's amazing how some simple techniques can turn a normal recording into something frightening and unpredictable. Thank you for sharing these things with us!
WHOA!!! The backwards reverb with regular speech is such a cool trick! As soon as I heard it I instantly thought of the Nazgúl in The Lord of the Rings.
1:28 I 100% expected that message.
That backwards reverb is so simple yet so genius. Thank you so much for that tip
Great stuff as always Jake! I'll spread word of the rhythm guitar course to my guitar friends!
Bro....this video made me poo my pants in terror! 👻
correction: this terror made me pants my poo in video
I've been wanting to get into creepy sound design for trailer music recently so this video came at a solid time. 😁
This is really great. I watch all of your videos and my favorite is the video where you taught about the creepy chords. And now this.. amazing.. great job Jake.
I've spent the last year making audio for Noir Nocturne, a VRchat Spookality world. It's got about an hour playtime so far and I've produced probably 90% of the world audio and music. I used every method in this video. For stretching the audio, I some times used Logic's "Flex time Telephone FX" on short transients like drums, clicks or pops. By stretching this short audio into maybe 10 sec I got this metallic, robotic kind of growl. Add some reverb and BOOM I had a sound for one of the enemies.
The one thing I would add to your list of tricks is about EQ. In a lot of my environmental ambience I added a low frequency rumble with maybe some slow stereo modulation, something almost below human hearing. This could be white noise or a sine wave. Really anything with low end information. Then I really boosted the lows on my EQ for an in your head binaural kind of feeling. Because this is a VR experience I knew everyone playing it would be wearing headphones so I could get away with some more radical stereo widths. This trick works better for games or film as having a low rumble through your whole song would just muddy everything up.
This was a lot of fun! You have a real knack for simple and easy-to understand explanations. Thanks, Jake!
Great artists, from Bach to Debussy, Stravinsky and beyond, would be nothing without their teachers. Thank you.
I'm sorry but I couldn't stop laughing out loud when such serious and spooky concepts are explained with words and phrases like "STRAWBERRY!" or "POTATO CHIP!" 😂😂 thank you so much!
Although only 42, my wife knows and loves "In My Life"... so I have gotten to hear it a few million times myself. I thought that was a spinet, to go with the Bach-esque melodies during the lead break.
I was definitely expecting some more synth design type of stuff, but that tip at 4:00 was definitely worth the watch
I love how you make stuff accessible to everyone, that was a great video !
I keep watching this video again and again. This information is gold, thank you so much!!
I always appreciate more creative sound design ideas!!
Discovering this channel is an amazing achievement for me🙌
You're certainly one of the best teachers I've come across.🙏
My favourite channel on RUclips. Literally never watch a video that you don't get something out of 👏👏👏
I love the way the engineers did the voice of Black Philip in The VVitch (I guess the goat is supposed to be the devil), but basically it sounds like numerous layers slightly delayed behind and shifted ahead of the main vocal recording, and then possibly some very light reversed reverb.
You hear it especially in the line "wouldst thou like some butter"
It'd be very cool for us amateur engineers to apply that to some dialogue of our own and experiment with it
Yay Jake is back! Congrats on the guitar chorus, will be checking that out soon.
I used TTS, and generated word by word a entire sentence, and placed each word half way between each other gave it some reverse reverb; doesn't sound that bad actually
This reminds me of the time I applied a ton of techniques like this to create a sound for a song. I snipped one word, time stretched it, cut a piece and stretched that too, about 4 more times, took the resulting mess, added distortion, reverb, reverse reverb, delay, muting, panning, flange/chorus and probably more I don't remember. That sound belonged in a horror movie for sure.
I use these techniques as a sound designer, using both software and hardware, I'd never combined all of them at once, on the same clip, thank you.
Once the message got decoded, i HAD to like it asap. #deep
I heard reverse reverb many times in Rahetalius' videos, I just didn't know what it was or how it was created. Now I do. Neat, thank you.
Duuude, shout outs for referrencing Heretic in this video! I personally never played it, but I played the hell out of Hexen, the sequel, as a kid. I love the soundtrack and sound design of this game and there were some truly haunting and terryfying things in there, I love it!
Well this came handy, i was just watching your video six creepy chords on repeat and now this video came out, great
7:11 I remember that too.
8:31 I love this progression!
MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS PLEASE!!! I love your production tutorials!
Great to see that you mentioned Heretic, I played it a lot back in the day!
Awesome tips and video!
I just discovered your channel as RUclips finally made a suggestion that I value though you gave away some good tricks there. Subbed.
Please listen to "the Intruder" by Peter Gabriel, also at the end there is a whiseld melody which will make you look underneath your bed
I cant convey how cool this video is
outstanding hacks and great sense of humor.
There are so many ways to make great scary effects.
One of my favorite tracks of special effects is Black Sabbath's "E5150".
Great video, Jake.
That "Brush your teeth" segment were you used backwards reverb on forward speech reminded me of Lord Of The Rings when they put them on.
Brilliant material here, cheers!
Revisited today for a new song. Thanks again for your thoughtful, expert and helpful content.
Wow, what an eye opening video, thank you so much!
This is pure gold! Thanks man!!
The king is back❤️
Great video, Jake. I’ll definitely find some use for reverse reverb. Thank you.
Thank you Niels! I can imagine many of your shop sounds would sound great in reverse - anything with a loud transient and a long tail works well like a hammer hitting steel
@@SignalsMusicStudio Now that you mentioned it, I made some shop recordings for sound fx a while ago. Will try!
the slowdown tech reminds me of Mick Gordon's Flesh & Metal, he used this trick for the main riff which ended up sounding super gnarly
I think a good example of learning to play a solo backwards and then reversing it is Misunderstood by Dream Theater, where Petrucci did that half way through the song. I didn't really knew how he made that sound until I read it somewhere. Very cool technique !
Thanks for that awesomely condensed knowledge-transferring video! 🤩
2:57 Hairy Parts
Thank you for sharing this information !😊
OMG, like and subscribed immediately for the Twin Peaks intro
Great video. Really useful for me as I'm working on a song that is supposed to have dark ambience
Fascinating topic and great advice and tips. Thank you for sharing these ideas and going deep with "how to" and "what can be..."
Great stuff!
Delay and planning are useful alongside these techniques. ✌️
amazing tips! thank you
Thanks for this video
your channel is fantastic, thanks a lot
I love your channel and love twin peaks and mike's arm, strange coincidence...
man I've been watching you for years! thanks so much for everything you have contributed to the worlds understanding of music in your easily accessible lessons, I've never commented before but I have this burning question! I came across an artist named Gran Hechicero recently and I am just blind sided to how this guy makes his music, by any chance might you explain to me what this dude is doing!?
At audio school we made a horror audio play. We wrote ghost’s lines backwards and the guy who played our ghost just read the lines as writen and we reversed them. He nailed them with just one take and we got very creepy sounding voice!
Brilliant video and +1 on the chills from Heretic 😂
Great techniques…as always. Can’t wait for your next drop. Have to check out your courses? I know you are a good teacher, and that I’m more of the “teach a man to fish” learner. I don’t start (easily) figuring stuff out, until I get the structural concepts.
Learning snippets of music is useful, but doesn’t lead to same kind of expansion as learning a concept, than learning the music that illustrates it. I have a feeling that your courses will open me up in the same way?
Augmented chord but change the 3rd for scary and change the 5th for James Bond.
I got so many ideas for horror.
Change the 3rd how? Moving it down or up a semitone gives you inverted major or minor chords, neither of which sounds scary to me.
@@icedragon769 Keep pulling the 3rd down.
Dude, Heretic is amazing game! Me and my best friend used to play it for hours on end back when we were 6 year old. Another game similar to Heretic is Killing Time, if you are guys into retro stuff.
thank you so much for these informative videos, you are an amazing teacher.
I once experimented with a sine wave, put a bitcrusher and reverb on it. I rendered and reversed it. I pitched it a bit down and than I applied a flangegate to it, that was very horrifying, but sounded way too awesome. Like a robot, whoms inner curcuits explode and catch fire. :D
sick video lots of cool info
Exactly what I needed. Thanks
Perfect timing dropping this video on Halloween!
That Picard picture at the bottom got me laughing to tears. :D
It got me good
Love the Twin Peaks reference 👍👍
Great tips here. I am very experienced in creating this creeps sound but this is valuable experience I am glad to hear. The reverb is not explained though. At first it seems you have frozen and flattened but then it looks like you just slapped a reverb on for post. I will have fun checking out the difference myself. I have found that I would imagine there are some more extreme tools to Abletons stretching function as it is seemingly not designed for anything further than small adjustments
finally someone who understands DARK AMBIENT
Great content. Thanks for your work!
Now, you're speaking my language ;)
Oh man you caught me by surprise with heretic. One of my favorite games. I was always wondering what those wizards were saying
Welcome back!
I love Heretic game. I still have it on my DOS computer, and THAT still works :-)
8:53 sounds like some old Katatonia. Awesome sound design tips !
Can you break down the genre romantic Mexican guitar.
Obligatory algorithm comment, glad to have you back!
Very entertaining episode :D
So all those songs in Cryo Chamber channel, this is what all those artists are doing.. Nice now i can copy them
You could reverse cassettes too, by manually winding the spool backwards then disassemble the tape and swap the spools.
Me when I got the notification for this video: "Scary sounds? Mmm, yeah, not that much into that, maybe I'll skip this one. Well, it's Jake so let's have a look at what he says anyway."
Me after watching the whole video: "Wow, that was super-interesting & very helpful!" 😅
Are you going to make more content?
Please!🙏🏽
1:12 It is sick yall, steve?
Glad I found your channel.
Hey Jake! Love your content, i'm not sure if you read comments and take requests but here goes.
Is there a possibility of a Cowboy Western style video? I love your way of using theory to explain how to get certain progressions and melodies and would really love something like this.
Yeah I agree! Normally all I find is info on general country music
quite an intriguing video
Wow. Jake is back. I've been waiting for a long time and watched every single video multiple times. It's a shame that I can't buy your rhythm course because I'm from Iran and I can't pay internationally but one day I'm gonna get it eventually.
you can also use it for free if you can't buy it, he made it available for people in all kinds of situations
check out his page
@@fingerstyledojo I know but I don't wanna use it for free. I'm sure he's put a lot of effort and passion for this course and I'd like to thank him somehow. But thanks for the info my friend
All your content has without a doubt been epic and helpful t us all.
If i may request you two videos
1) construction of a basic MESHUGGAH riff like stengah using maybe a 1/2 whole dimisnhed scale (verse,chorus,bridge etc)
2) Tracktion DAW tutorial
thanx in advance......
I have a suggestion, can you make us a video talking about how to create songs forms of different genres and how to link ideas (intro-verse-pre chorus-chorud-bridge) ... 🙏
I love this channel.
I've gotten a lot of mileage out of using these techniques on whale sounds and baby laughter. Baby laughter is really creepy when you reverse it and pitch it.