Spooky Sounds: (3 Stars)

This was a fun assignment to work on, especially right at Halloween time!  I found most of my sounds that I wanted to go with on Freesound.org.  The following tracks were downloaded:

Uncle Sigmund:  “Chainsaw”

tcrocker68_girl:  “girl screaming”

Puniho: “Chainsawing”

Spoonbender: “Wind through trees”

All of the files were uploaded into Audacity.

I also had my son, James, record his insane laugh that he does directly into Audacity with the other tracks.  With so many different tracks and so many different volume levels, I had to do a lot of manipulation to make it all work together. James’ laughter was loud so I had to compress the sound to make it a little more manageable.  I also did some effects of fading out occasionally so his laughter didn’t over power the audio.  I also had to do alot of copy/pasting to make a more realistic screen of the “victim”.  A person being sliced by a chainsaw would not scream the same scream over and over.  Once I had the levels where I wanted them, I uploaded the audio file into SoundCloud.  Enjoy…