Venom's alien voice sound design explained by Will Files

The sound design of Venom's alien voice explained by sound designer Will Files!

INDEPTH Sound Design created, researched, and edited by Mike James Gallagher

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Special Thanks to Michael Coleman, Carolyn Croce, Gracie Hartmann, Brett Noborikawa, and Ivan Power-Kronick

00:00 FINAL VOICE
00:05 RAW VOICE RECORDING
00:20 PITCH SHIFTER ► SOUNDTOYS LITTLE ALTERBOY
01:05 EXPANDER/GATE, COMPRESSOR, EQ ► AVID CHANNEL STRIP
02:34 DE-ESSER ► AVID DE-ESSER
03:22 TREMOLO (FREQUENCY MODULATION) ► AVID AIR FREQUENCY SHIFTER
04:04 MULTI-EFFECTS ► SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK
04:34 TREMOLO (AMPLITUDE MODULATION) ► SOUNDTOYS TREMOLATOR
05:49 PHASE SHIFTER ► SOUNDTOYS PHASEMISTRESS
06:45 DISTORTION/SATURATION ► SOUNDTOYS RADIATOR
08:11 CHORUS ► AVID AIR ENSEMBLE
09:46 MULTIBAND COMPRESSOR ► AVID PRO MULTIBAND DYNAMICS
11:32 SUBHARMONIC GENERATOR ► AVID PRO SUBHARMONIC
13:04 LIMTER, EQ ► AVID CHANNEL STRIP
13:58 GURGLES
14:42 ROUTING
15:03 MIXING
15:47 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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► Comment below if you learned anything from this video!
00:00 FINAL VOICE
00:05 RAW VOICE RECORDING
00:20 PITCH SHIFTER ► SOUNDTOYS LITTLE ALTERBOY
01:05 EXPANDER/GATE, COMPRESSOR, EQ ► AVID CHANNEL STRIP
02:34 DE-ESSER ► AVID DE-ESSER
03:22 TREMOLO (FREQUENCY MODULATION) ► AVID AIR FREQUENCY SHIFTER
04:04 MULTI-EFFECTS ► SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK
04:34 TREMOLO (AMPLITUDE MODULATION) ► SOUNDTOYS TREMOLATOR
05:49 PHASE SHIFTER ► SOUNDTOYS PHASEMISTRESS
06:45 DISTORTION/SATURATION ► SOUNDTOYS RADIATOR
08:11 CHORUS ► AVID AIR ENSEMBLE
09:46 MULTIBAND COMPRESSOR ► AVID PRO MULTIBAND DYNAMICS
11:32 SUBHARMONIC GENERATOR ► AVID PRO SUBHARMONIC
13:04 LIMTER, EQ ► AVID CHANNEL STRIP
13:58 GURGLES
14:42 ROUTING
15:03 MIXING
15:47 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

[Microfaun]

The most educational 18 minutes of my life. Thank you!

[johnmellor]

This is the best one yet, an actual tutorial. The others just tend to sumarise rather than break out Pro Tools and show how they actually did it. "yeah we used a didgeridoo for the alien". That's nice but how did you process it?

[geoffaudio]

love these breakdowns! Venom's voice sounds badass and unique compared to much of the other monster-like processing we often hear

[GarthDeBrunoAustin]

This is the greatest channel on YouTube! I know it’s a lot of work Please keep making more of these.

[kappabravomusic]

So fun. How the sound can be altered with the basic simple DSPs. Love it.

[Metalrubrik]

This is amazing! Please more creature voice design :). Thanks for sharing

[oscarcorral]

Just came across this video as the trailer for Venom 2 dropped. Really excited to see what the team does for Carnage and how they stylize his sound/voice!

[ChrisGeden]

I couldn’t wait until after work to watch this, so I watched it in my break.

Another amazing breakdown. I love how they used effects that are really popular with guitarists so I’ll have to share this with my guitarist friends, when this is released, to see what they think.

Thanks for the thanks. Happy to support the channel and I hope it spurs others on to subscribe to your Patreon channel.

[AlexWongify]

Thanks for putting this together, it's so fascinating! Made me realize I need to take a whole lot more sound design classes, but thanks for explaining some new techniques, learned a lot from this! Keep it up!

[jonathangrover]

What a great channel this is. Awesome insights and information, well edited and produced; such a great resource for new sound designers and veterans alike. Thanks so much for taking the time to upload and produce these.

[brandonpratt]

This was fantastic and super, super interesting! Thank you so much! 😊🙌🏻👏🏻

[TomSoundsGood]

I keep coming back to this for creature sound design reference year after year. Terrific breakdown! Thank you!

[ikklepip]

Great video! I’d love to hear a breakdown of Tom’s Bane voice performance and post-processing. I’d also like to see James Earl Jones to Vader broken down.

[HabibT]

Incredible in-depth explanation. Thanks!

[jordanMJK]

I'd love to learn this one day and edit the roars and venom dialog that topher had in spider-man 3 in my own little cut of the film.

[k-rom]

thanks for these, replicating his sounds are good practice

[STRAIGHTP]

this is awesome. always love your content. fun to try these techniques on dark song creation

[BloodyFlowerFilms]

If I could do sound design for the rest of my life, I would. Making sounds, editing sounds, mixing them... ugh, what I wouldn’t give to do it for a living.

[AndrewHelbig]

Seems like adding about 20% for each effect is a pretty good sweet spot for most modulation and things.