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Preset
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Description
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Bad Dream
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Echoing large space.
Good for dream voices or elements that are ethereal.
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Bar
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Nice space for
a large club or bar. Add sources for incidental music and chatter.
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Car Radio
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It's a small space
with a heavily EQ'd point source. Good for when you need to have
a major fast-food corporation's signature music appear in a commercial
about getting fast-food in your car. Don't drive and eat, though
-- that's dangerous!
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Cave of Bats
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Giant cave with
booming echo.
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Cockpit
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Just add jet noise,
wind rumble and a fighter pilot. Then use the "Car Radio" preset
for his external radio communications. EQ to taste and serve with
a few piping hot explosions.
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Drum Set Miked
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This is a drum
booth that you can place on individual drum tracks. Or, just make
a stereo pair and use it as a world-izing booth.
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Front Entry
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Your main character
is walking into the house. He'll pass through this area and hang
up his coat and hat. Good general household room. Add a Kitchen
by making the room bigger.
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Game Show Booth
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Great for times
when you to have a character or sound effect in a small booth, telephone
or otherwise. This is where the guy sweats out the coming round
of questions.
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Grandpa's in the
Attic Again
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You're sitting
in the family room and Grandpa's up there, playing records from
the 30's. Go get him down before he starts dancing around and making
hooting noises.
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Hallway - Long
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It's a long hallway.
But you already guessed that.
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Hallway - Medium
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Yep. Same deal.
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Hallway - Short
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Ha! This is actually
a missile room on a submarine. But it makes a good short hallway
too.
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Inside the dryer
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Great for commercials
featuring talking teddy bears in the clothes dryer. Warning: Do
not try this at home!
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Large Bathroom
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Large home facilities
or small office bathroom. You can almost hear the guy in the corner
stall with the newspaper.
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Library
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Lots of trapping
for the shelves. Move the performer to achieve the desired perspective.
Kill the dry signal when doing whispers heard across stacks.
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Men's Room at the
Bar, Parts 1 & 2
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These presets (along
with the "Bar" preset) allow you to have a scene at a drinking establishment
where your main character goes to the restroom. Use "part 1" for
the music and chatter that emanates from the bar area and "part
2" for the character inside the bathroom. Don't forget to pan appropriately,
and wash your hands before returning to your seat.
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Mitch's Love Shack
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This was inspired
by a popular TV show about physically attractive lifeguards who
sometimes perform beach rescues. Even more amazing than the lifeguards
is this show's level of post-production sound quality. (No kidding!)
One episode had
Lifeguard Mitch standing outside the beach-guard shack, and another
lifeguard inside. Whoever mixed the episode made the voice coming
inside the shack sound. exactly like a voice coming from inside
a shack. This preset approximates that effect.
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Museum
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Use it to simulate
the sound of a tour group in a museum, or move the sound source
to simulate the footsteps of that security guard that you're trying
to avoid.
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Neighbor Playing
Music
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If you've ever
lived in an apartment building with college students, this will
bring back memories. Nice preset for sounds like domestic disputes
in the next apartment over. Muffles and world-izes the source audio.
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Pressure Chamber
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Deep sea divers
can't ascend to the surface instantly: they need to spend time inside
a pressure chamber that slowly lowers the air pressure to normal,
or they'll get "the bends." You don't want the bends, so use this
preset to simulate what things sound like inside a pressure chamber.
You'll be glad you did.
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Sly & the Family
Throne
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Imagine that one
day out of the blue, a certain well-known soul/funk band drops by
your home for a quick recording session. Happens to me all the time.
Drums in the living
room, guitar in the kitchen, bass in the bedroom, horns in the laundry
room. but where to put the lead singer himself? I'd pick the bathroom.
Gives a lead vocal
band-pass EQ, just like the one their lead singer always uses, plus
bathroom reverb. Or use it for voices coming over the guitar solo.
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St. Peter's Cathedral
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I've never been
there, but this should give you the idea. Lots of flavor in this
reverb. Nice for church ambience in general.
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Stand-up Comic
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You're in a lousy
little hole-in-the-wall comedy club. The comic's been up there for
half an hour, and he sucks. Good luck trying to ignore him!
This simulates
the sound of that little club, including its horrible acoustics.
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Store PA - Large
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Attention Cakewalk
shoppers: Put this on a voiceover to simulate a PA announcer.
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Store PA - Medium
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There's a 1969
Chevy Camaro in the parking lot with its lights on.
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Store PA - Small
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I'm not running
a library here. either buy those magazines or get out. And thank
you for shopping Quik-Mart.
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Studio A
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Ever have to post
a scene where somebody is in the "recording studio" sitting in front
of some ancient board with analog reel-to-reel machines running
behind them? Well, now you can simulate the music coming out of
the speakers in that room.
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TV in next room
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Looks weird, but
believe me, it comes in handy. TV's, radios, children, toasters,
scary bedtime monsters -- put this on anything, and voila, it's
in the next room!
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Warehouse
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Good for handgun
battles in warehouses. Lots of absorption because of all of the
cardboard boxes stacked to the ceiling.
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