Expert Sound Designer Demonstrates How To Make Stories Scary | Audible

I'm Curtis McDonald and I am a sound designer at audible Studios and this is how I made something that sounds like this what the hell Ted that that's the upstairs window probably the damn wind knocked it open TED be careful and turn it into this Ted

honey I want people to lean into the radio turn the speaker up I'm a big sound nerd Protools is probably still the industry standard for editing and mixing in post production that's my theater of war this title is 30 Days of Night which is like a vampire apocalyptic type uh storytelling scene this is what it

sounded like before I did any sound design Ted Ted honey he was right oh God oh God oh God this movie is a classic I think I'll watch it after [Music] dinner right now we're in a room and I can hear like 12 different sounds nobody is saying anything except for me right

talking right now I can hear the air conditioner I can hear the hum of the lights all that is Ambience and here is what I did we sort of hear some wind and we also have some fireplace sound here too both these tracks are fireplace I'm trying to create a baseline with ambience especially in a

scary scene you know I'm trying to sort of create the Calm before the storm perspective is everything for the listening experience you know as a listener you need to know what's close to you what's far away from you I wanted to have the listener sort of grounded in the character of Beth for this if you

can establish a constant then you have more flexibility to incorporate variables so like when Ted goes up to the upstairs room the balance is Shifting during that I'll go check probably the damn wind knocked it open TED be careful honey yeah I we'll fall down the stairs okay the windows F okay I'm going