Creating an effective marching sound

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Creating an effective marching sound

Post by Bass_Jacka » Fri Oct 03, 2014 2:57 pm

How would I go about creating a realistic sounding 'army marching' sound.

If I were to sample myself marching, what could I do to edit this to sound as if it were an army of feet marching, and not just 1 person?

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Re: Creating an effective marching sound

Post by wub » Fri Oct 03, 2014 3:19 pm

Bass_Jacka wrote:How would I go about creating a realistic sounding 'army marching' sound.

If I were to sample myself marching, what could I do to edit this to sound as if it were an army of feet marching, and not just 1 person?

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Record a few samples of yourself walking on different surfaces.
Layer them
Pull a few out of time
Add small amounts of chorus/reverb/delay (very small)
Maybe try time stretching one or two layers
Light bus compression to bring it all together

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Re: Creating an effective marching sound

Post by test_recordings » Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:11 am

Just sample Rammstein, one of their albums (the one with Sonne on) has at least one track with a prominent marching intro. Same with Muse, one album intro is just marching (Absolution?).

Films are a good source too
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Re: Creating an effective marching sound

Post by Crimsonghost » Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:11 am

Box o' nails. Shake, add reverb.
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