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Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:39 pm

@Zen: Seems to me there's more than enough "bot" in the post just above yours.

ZenPunkHippy · Post by **ZenPunkHippy** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:14 pm

Meffy wrote:@Zen: Seems to me there's more than enough "bot" in the post just above yours.

*ahem* Yes! And THANKS so much for making me look again ... really ... much appreciated!!!!!

Peace,
Andy.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:22 pm

Cold, man, cooold.

afreshcupofjoe · Post by **afreshcupofjoe** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:26 pm

ZenPunkHippy wrote:
afreshcupofjoe wrote:How do I make my digital recordings colder? They are just too warm for my tastes. I've tried big icy reverbs like glaceverb, but it's just not cold enough. I want it to feel like sleeping in an ice cave when listening to my music
Maybe Linda Bot (the Ice Queen!) can help you out - it's time she gave something back to the community that made her.

I suggest you PM her.

Peace,
Andy.

What a great idea!

PM'd

shogger · Post by **shogger** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:12 am

NEKRO.MACHINE wrote:Smash it over 0dbfs and do not limit, add the most nasty metalic reverb you have and brootally boost all around 1k-7k; Until its skin turns blue

So why limit that boost to 7k? Let the boost go aaaaaaalllll the way up and you will get some nice and warm errrr I mean nasty and cold aliasing.

Shogger

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:37 am

Work for years on your material, dedicate your whole life to in. Live in poverty knowing that one day the world will discover you. Only to find that your whole body of work has been plagiarised, and someone else has gotten wealthy beyond their wildest dreams off your back. Then most things will seem colder.

afreshcupofjoe · Post by **afreshcupofjoe** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:41 am

chagzuki wrote:Work for years on your material, dedicate your whole life to in. Live in poverty knowing that one day the world will discover you. Only to find that your whole body of work has been plagiarised, and someone else has gotten wealthy beyond their wildest dreams off your back. Then most things will seem colder.

Ouch!

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:05 am

Don't worry, didn't happen to me. It just came to mind as I stole someone else's life's work.

TOTAL · Post by **TOTAL** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:08 am

No, don't deny. That's okay. There's no justice, after all...

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:35 am

eduardo_b wrote:Reverse the polarity on any warming plug-in.

Not as silly as it sounds - if you mix the inverted warmed-up signal with the original you will be left with just "the warmth" (inverted), which you can add to your dry signal, leaving it icy cold

. Or something...

*coat*

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:54 am

TOTAL wrote:No, don't deny. That's okay. There's no justice, after all...

Oh subtle.I like it.

TOTAL · Post by **TOTAL** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:15 am

Howard wrote:
eduardo_b wrote:Reverse the polarity on any warming plug-in.
Not as silly as it sounds - if you mix the inverted warmed-up signal with the original you will be left with just "the warmth" (inverted), which you can add to your dry signal, leaving it icy cold . Or something...

*coat*

I see...

Might not be a pro sound designer but something tells me that much more energy effective cold be a plain additive polarity synth.

passed through a notch filter for the very extreme.

In White Noise Additive you can use real pictures (of icebergs etc)

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:20 am

deez nuuuuuuts

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:05 am

shogger wrote:
NEKRO.MACHINE wrote:Smash it over 0dbfs and do not limit, add the most nasty metalic reverb you have and brootally boost all around 1k-7k; Until its skin turns blue
So why limit that boost to 7k? Let the boost go aaaaaaalllll the way up and you will get some nice and warm errrr I mean nasty and cold aliasing.

Shogger

Cheers Shogger; 7K - what was i thinking?! Boost a monster + as many db's as you can at 20k with the worst EQ you got and feel that aliasing like a storm blasting scando ice wind!!!

Frostbite = The New Warm

Now if a dev reads this, any chance of a new plug-in to give instant cold? I got the name for the plug-in: "VintageFrostbite" and the pic could be a start for the GUI?

Aroused by JarJar · Post by **Aroused by JarJar** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:08 am

NEKRO.MACHINE wrote:
Aroused by JarJar wrote:
NEKRO.MACHINE wrote:Smash it over 0dbfs and do not limit, add the most nasty metalic reverb you have and brootally boost all around 1k-7k; Until its skin turns blue
Isn't that what people who go on and on about "warm" and "vintage" do?

Say- since "cold" and "warm" are at least partly subjective, would you consider this sound:

http://dl.kibla.org/dl.php?filename=Sil ... 4285p7.WAV

"cold""? Just curious (comparing synaesthesia experiences).
Aroused by JarJar: i really do not know friend and my post was to be taken with a pinch of salt but also could work to make something sound "Colder" (or to some doing that could make something sound "Warm")

The Bell Tone: Not to my ears, i really like bell like sounds actually because of the 'clarity' they always seem to possess

Here is a beat i put together about 6/7 months ago using ableton's DrumRack and i used a bell type tone in their as i really liked it, let me know what you think:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/fjhnjjjhaj4/Nekro Unkonventional Beat 2 100 BP.wav

Nice beat! "deceptively simple" as they say. The bell you use is kind of like those really old electromechanical doorbells and to my ears more brass and even "warm", sounds good.

I realized the original post was tongue in cheek, a good joke, but it is also a very interesting serious topic. Good-sounding "cold" sounds are rarer than "warm", I always concentrate on them in movie soundtracks (quite a bit of analog modulars and KYMA I believe)

Those kinds of sounds don't have aliasing. Aliasing makes brittleness, or wheeziness, or edginess, or thinness, it doesn't tend to make things that give you a feeling of "cold" or express coldness. Otherwise cold sounds would be easy as pie.

Hmmm, making some actual cold sounds, that's a challenge.