(theme music) - Okay. In this video, we are
going to have a little look at spooky voiceovers
and how to very quickly make yourself sound really scary just in time for Halloween really quickly. So I'm going into Adobe Audition. I'm starting fresh with
a brand new voiceover. I'll call this spooky as a file name. (deep voice) Hello there.
I'm a rather scary demon and I'm going to get you. (whispered) I'm a ghost. Okay. So I'm gonna show you three things that you can do really, really quickly. And the first thing I'll
do now, I've recorded that. Of course, I always like
to maximize the volume by using normalize either to minus 0.1 or minus three
dB doesn't really matter. Adobe Audition is so good now that it just doesn't really
make much of a difference. Okay, let's call this
the spooky multi-track that I'm going into now
with no template whatsoever. And we'll bring this in. So the first thing is
really, really simple to do. I'm actually gonna chop this in half and take the "I'm a ghost" bit. Put that off to the side for the moment. And I'm just gonna
simply double up my voice like that onto a second
track by holding down alt or option for you Mac users
and dragging to the next track. So we got me speaking twice on two tracks. - (deep voice) Hello, there.
I'm a rather scary demon. - Okay. It doesn't sound too scary now, but we're gonna do this really simply. We're gonna go into the effects
rack and on the first track we are going to go to time and pitch, and we're gonna go to pitch shifter, and we're gonna take it
down by five semitones. - (deep voice) Hello, there.
I'm a rather scary demon. - Starting to sound a little scary, but now we'll go over to the second track. And again, we'll put the same effect in, we'll go to pitch shifter, but instead of taking
it down five semitones, we'll put it up five
semitones; we'll play back. - (high voice) Hello, there.
I'm a rather scary demon. - And you can mess about with this. So we can maybe go by three
to bring those pictures a bit closer, so plus three,
and over on the first track, we'll make that minus three and try again. - (scary voice) Hello, there.
I'm a rather scary demon. - And if you wanted to, kind
of, make it even more, kind of, you know, imaged and sounding great you can pan a little bit to the left, pan a bit to the right. - (scary voice) Hello, there.
I'm a rather scary demon. - And so that's the first vocal effect in time for Halloween. Second one, I'm gonna mute out track two. I'm gonna put track one into the center. - (deep voice) Hello, there. - And we'll take the pitch
shifter down quite a bit more. - (deep voice) Hello, there. - And then we'll go in and we'll add in something from modulation, maybe a chorus. We can go through some of the presets. - (scary voice) Hello, there.
I'm a rather scary demon. - So Project Nightmare works
quite well as a preset. You might want to remember
that one if you're in chorus. We've also got Chaos Pits,
(rumbling) but that's a, that's a bit alien-like. - (gravelly voice) Hello, there. - Broken stereo-based chorus. - (gravelly voice) Hello, there. - That's quite good. So we're pitch shifting down. We're using the base chorus, and also we could go into special, and maybe add in a little bit,
sorry, not special, reverb. And we can add a little
bit of studio reverb. Usually starting off with vocal reverb. Small is quite good. Putting the dry up to 100, wet up. - (scary voice) Hello, there.
I'm a rather scary demon. - If you wanna make it even more scary you can just increase the decay. - (scary voice) Hello,
there. I'm a rather s- - And the more you increase the decay, the bigger that reverb becomes. So, those are your first two tips. Final one, I'm gonna do really quickly with this spooky ghost. So I kind of whispered it. - (whispered) I'm a ghost. - Okay, I've still got some
of those effects on there. Now I can actually maybe take
them up or take them down. I might just take the
reverb down a bit there. - (whispered) I'm a ghost. - And we're gonna do
something, I like to call it, reverse reverb, others call, other producers call
it all kinds of things. Copy new audio file, paste effects. Reverse it. Put in a bit of silence
afterwards, edit, insert, silence back 10 seconds
is more than enough. Then we go into effects. We go to reverb. We use studio reverb, lots
of decay required on this, lots of wet, not very much dry. And we get, (whispering) okay, so there you can see the the reverse reverb coming in. We then reverse it back
around, zip, like that. We bring that untitled
to reverse reverb in and we try to match these up. Now if I was being super efficient and I'm sure I've done
this in other tutorials, I usually place a marker but because I've done this so many times, I know roughly where this should go and we unmute that track. In fact, we'll put it on
a track without effects. - (scary voice) I'm a ghost. - Okay. So you hear how
that- let's cut off that. Let's do a little fade in there. Let's turn that volume up. Let's fade down a bit when
the ghostly voice comes in so the reverse reverb isn't going on underneath the voice and we get: - (scary voice) I'm a ghost. - So we get that very
ghostly kind of thing that you might hear in
Sixth Sense the movie, or you know, any movies
that have ghosts in. So very, very simple,
very, very easy for you. That is how it's done. First of all, you got
pitch up and pitch down, two separate tracks, left
and right separation. You've got a demonic kind
of scary clown voice. You can work with just the
pitch shifter, bit of chorus, bit of reverb, and you've
got a super dark demon voice. And then of course you
can do reverse reverb, and put it onto a kind of
whisper to get that kind of (whispered) ghostly effect. Happy Halloween. Enjoy using these effects
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