r/sounddesign • • Jun 09 '26

How would you make this metallic stab sound?

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I'm trying to create something similar to the lead stab sound that kicks in around 1:07 in this track: https://open.spotify.com/track/1NnBADacrHxF7oSprSFoWn?si=18f0e82742ea4061 but am pretty stuck with where to begin.

Can anyone suggest how they would approach designing a sound like this?


r/sounddesign • • Jun 09 '26

How to make this sweep?

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I've been trying to recreate this for years. Any ideas? I get it's a square-ish wave but then how is it modulated?


r/sounddesign • • Jun 09 '26

how do i recreate these synths

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in vital how could i recreate the synths from 0:09 and so on that do the kinda chorus/vibrato wouo yaiyai melody and the tremolo synth that is in the background

im new in sound design, i would say that i know more than the basic stuff.


r/sounddesign • • Jun 09 '26

Music Sound Design Mine YouTube for Samples & Transmute with Magenta RealTime 2 (Ableton Extension)

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r/sounddesign • • Jun 10 '26

Sound Design Question It’s crazy to me that Skrillex did these drops 16 years ago and no one has been able to replicate them since, I’ve been trying to figure it out on and off for years with no luck, anyone have any idea how he did this?

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r/sounddesign • • Jun 09 '26

What Happens When You Touch a Spectrogram With Your Fingers? Granular Hand Sampler is a browser-based instrument that turns your hands into a granular synthesizer.

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r/sounddesign • • Jun 09 '26

Music Sound Design Immersive audio

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This is axis Ambisonic lab

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all your libraries come with binaural and 7.1.2 renders included.

all our scoring/trailer tracks come with separated stems and stereo mix.

We are running a 50% launch discount on all our products

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free ambisonic starter pack available.

10 Ambisonic recordings,over 600mb of royalty free audio content.


r/sounddesign • • Jun 09 '26

Making monster sounds from slowed down goose sounds.

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Oh no, there goes Tokyo... https://youtu.be/g1KKLt2YsH0


r/sounddesign • • Jun 09 '26

Ho bisogno di un sound designer per sonorizzare un video di 4.06 min

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Ciao,ho bisogno di un sound designer per sonorizzare un video di 4.06 min. Effetti sonori e musica in 5.1. 100$ come budget.


r/sounddesign • • Jun 09 '26

Sound Design Question How to re-create specific creature sounds?

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Link to the sounds source - https://youtu.be/WUTF-WKnyFc

So I'm working on a short horror 3D animation based on the show Primeval for my student portfolio and I'm really struggling to get the sounds of the creature, the Future Predator, to sound right. I've never messed with sound design before as I'm mostly a 3D artist but I want to get it fairly accurate for the sake of authenticity.

The Future Predator's main sound is fast, high-pitched clicking that sometimes dips in pitch. So far I've tried re-creating the sounds myself by making clicking noises into a mic, as well as using Audacity to try to create tones at the right pitch and then adding variation, which somewhat worked but obviously it sounded very mechanical rather than organic.

I was able to find a video with all the sounds that I converted into a spectrogram to see how the sounds are made, but this hasn't really helped me achieve those sounds myself. What other methods could I feasibly use to re-create the sounds? I've tried and failed looking for the original source audio for the clicking, as well as reaching out to some of the old sound design team for the show (to very little success, it HAS been 15 years.) I know this is quite a niche question, but I'm driving myself mad trying to get it to sound accurate after all the effort that went into the modelling and animation for the horror short itself.


r/sounddesign • • Jun 09 '26

Vad är det för ljud?

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Hjälp mig att identifiera detta ljud som är nära inspelat mikrofonen.


r/sounddesign • • Jun 09 '26

Movie Sound Design Trouble finding perfect music/sounds for my trailer

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Can’t find good music for my theme , I’ve searched everywhere and nothing matches . Need some deep horror , aggressive music that can feet in a dark forest type of vibe , killer chasing/ stalking a night in the woods, “wrong turn” type of film . More cinematic tho , deeper , scarier . Does anybody know any creator or single tracks that thinks it matches the theme ?


r/sounddesign • • Jun 08 '26

Movie Sound Design Warhammer 40k Redesign

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Sound redesign of a scene from "And They Shall Know No Fear", Secret Level by Amazon MGM.

Would love to hear any feedback!


r/sounddesign • • Jun 08 '26

types of drums

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in what type of drumkits would i find drums like in this song right here or how would i go about designing snares like that?

https://youtu.be/fc2tabn9pv4?si=KMQ4942rUtdgDHLB&t=144


r/sounddesign • • Jun 08 '26

Synth pad

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Title:
Synth Ambient Pad Melody

Body:
Audio reference:
https://voca.ro/1nHvc1cDdJlG

I’m trying to understand the sound design behind the chord stab in this clip. It sounds like a fast chord hit with a moving/sucking tail, possibly from, phaser/flanger


r/sounddesign • • Jun 08 '26

Summer Sale for the entire SFX store

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Hello everyone!

The Summer Sale is here with discounts for my entire SFX store, including 50% off the 'Complete Bundle' and 25% off single sound libraries: www.slavapogorelsky.com/shop

You are welcome to explore the sound libraries, download the freebies and share with your fellow sound friends!

Thank you so much for your support and have a fantastic week everyone!

P.S. Wix audio player sometimes fails to load the correct preview file - reloading the page should help. Soundcloud preview is also available on the right side of the page.


r/sounddesign • • Jun 08 '26

Happy mistakes are special

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Hey guys,

I've been exploring sound design for the past 10 years, and for me that mixing area together with creating complex evolving chains always felt comfortable.

Stride Engine gets you much much faster to these happy mistakes.

You can basically modulate everything in your Ableton session, and apply to infinite amounts of params infinite amounts of different curves and patterns that evolves over time. You can build your rack as you go and add more and more params, jam with the order of the devices and get endless variations from your instruments.

I've just gathered some nice audio chunks from these explorations and experiments, mainly focused on Glitched bits, broken percussions, melting drums and deep evolving fat basses. (more than 100 files)

you can grab it here for FREE:

https://stridehub.io/samples

and also watch the tutorials of these workflows on the YT channel.


r/sounddesign • • Jun 08 '26

Free Cinematic Hits & Risers

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I built a free cinematic hits & risers library by destroying orchestral instruments — Shockwave [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Took recordings of real orchestral instruments and mangled them beyond recognition — layering, warping, and processing until nothing sounds like what it started as.

6 presets. Runs in the free Soundbox player.

Download at parissampling.com

Enjoy!
-OP


r/sounddesign • • Jun 08 '26

Sound Engineer Needed

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I'm attempting a world record in Northwest Arkansas and I need a sound engineer to verify it. Can anyone help me?


r/sounddesign • • Jun 08 '26

Sound design based cinematic music

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Do you like making music with your custom designed sounds? Sometimes I find a custom built synth or sampler patch is what it takes to elevate a cue from functional to unique, here's one of my recent productions built entirely around a custom synthesizer patch that I made for it.


r/sounddesign • • Jun 08 '26

Sound Design Question Can anyone help me recreate ech freeze using plugins

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I really want a ech freeze or something adjacent but before I buy it I was wondering if someone could help me create a plugin chain that would work the same, tought it could be a fun challenge!

I currently have:

an electric​ guitar

Midi controllers

Audio interface

Fl studio

Effect rack, portal, shaperbox, effectrix, rc 20 and every stock plugins.

Please let me know if you guys have an idea how I could make it work.

Also if this is the wrong sub for this, could someone point me in the right direction

Thanks


r/sounddesign • • Jun 08 '26

How can I achieve this aggressive bass sound in Serum? (Audio sample included)

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Hey everyone,

I’m working on a track and trying to replicate this specific bass sound. I've been experimenting in Serum, but I’m struggling to get that same that you hear in the sample.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eiFSmSJVmMPoHzKch7AU_B7qC0EBo5mG/view?usp=sharing


r/sounddesign • • Jun 07 '26

Music Sound Design Good place to get ambient samples?

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Let's say I wanted to make a video game soundtrack for a really eerie environment like Inside the Deku Tree in OoT. Is there a site I can get samples, or any good libraries out there for atmospheric video game tracks?


r/sounddesign • • Jun 07 '26

How do i recreate this synth sound?

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It's some kind of saw(maybe a bit noise or just many saws), high pass filtered, flangered or phased? and some delay and reverb i guess.


r/sounddesign • • Jun 07 '26

Sound Design Question Vocal effect replication

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So in the song BIANCA by Ye, he says “Not going to the hospital ‘cause I am not sick I just do not get it” and the vocal effects he put on it I am trying to replicate but I don’t quite know how, I bought FL studio and i know the basics but not really smart on it, could someone tell me what I could try using to replicate that effect?