Making Great Wind

[Nek'rahm]

Need a good ambient Wind noise? (like wind through a turbine?) Try this!

MAKING AMBIENT WIND: TUTORIAL

1) Get a good recording software (ex. Sony Soloist worked great for this)

2) Set up your microphone to configure with your computer

3) Load the recording software

4) Increase the sensitivity on your mic by a GREAT amount

5) Set up the mic right in front of your face, turn to a side and breath in

6) Click "Record"

7) Blow out through your nose onto the mic for a good 10 seconds. Stop and save

8) Go to a sound editing program

9) Cut the last 2 seconds or so of your recording (maybe the first 1 too) and loop it

VIOLA! Ambient wind

[Kiril]

That's one method. Another way to make wind is to just eat lots of beans!

[Nadnerb]

Great, now if I hear wind sounds in any fan made ages, I'm going to think about people blowing their noses.

[Aloys]

There are worst things, don't you know how the lava sound in the Selenetic Age was done?

[Chacal]

No, but something tells me ignorance is bliss.

[Vamp]

There are worst things, don't you know how the lava sound in the Selenetic Age was done?

... Do I want to know?

[Trylon]

I know there was this one bubbly sound that was made by putting an air hose into a toilet.

[Nadnerb]

Yes, they mentioned that in "the making of". That was the bubbles you hear in the final room in Stoneship.

I don't know about the Selenetic lava though. I do want to know, actually.

[Aloys]

I might have mixed up those two then, cause that's the one I was thinking of.

[Nek'rahm]

errrrr oooookay....

Ehm... I actually did some more work and looking around.

I figured out that by using programs like WavePad, there are ways to warp the sound of the wind you just made and make a deep, rumbling sound that can be used for shifting earth (ergo, the Earthquakes in the Shaft in Myst V)

Just thought i'd throw that in while I work with my Toilet Hose