How To Sound Design Explosions (using Vital)

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In this video on how to sound design explosions, I'll show you an easy method to get synthesized explosion sounds using Vital that can either be used on their own or combined with organic sounds.
In this video I'm using the free soft synth Vital and Ableton stock plugins but this can be replicated with other synthesizers and other DAWs/ plugins as well.
0:00 The sound
0:09 - Setup in Vital
0:23 - Adding filter & compressor
0:45 - Shaping with EQ
0:57 - Stereo with Haas effect
1:18 - Changing the volume shape
1:48 - Adding reverb
2:19 - More EQ shaping
2:27 - Transient shaping & distortion (Drum Buss)
3:10 - EQ & Compression
3:35 - Working with audio & layering
3:50 - Layering the sound with itself
4:28 - Layering the sound with other recordings
6:30 - Final tips

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  • @AkashThakkarAudio
    @AkashThakkarAudio Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely awesome. Love it!

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow, thank you! Love your stuff. :)

  • @mechwarreir2
    @mechwarreir29 ай бұрын

    Math class: Everything can be made from sine waves. Sound Design: Everything can be made from random noise

  • @jabelsjabels
    @jabelsjabels Жыл бұрын

    I'm not a sound designer at all but I love watching you build these sounds up from almost nothing!

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    That's awesome. Thank you. :)

  • @DJPastaYaY
    @DJPastaYaY Жыл бұрын

    Making these sounds are gonna be a blast!

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    Have fun! :)

  • @MATroiano
    @MATroiano Жыл бұрын

    This is dope. I love the organic layering a lot.

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. :)

  • @rudecrude6168
    @rudecrude6168 Жыл бұрын

    thank you for showing these. I've always been wondering how to make these sounds/noises.

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad it's helpful. Thank you. :)

  • @zygote396
    @zygote3963 ай бұрын

    i have not found anything remotely close to this for explosion synthesis, thank you! i think the type of distortion is key here, it took me a long time to find something that would drive it as hard as that ableton drum buss soft clip is doing, without completely nuking the high end detail.

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you, I'm glad it was helpful. And I agree - depending on the distortion you can shape the sound in different ways. :)

  • @cakes4
    @cakes4Ай бұрын

    this is awesome thank you !

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Ай бұрын

    Glad you like it. :)

  • @emarcy
    @emarcy11 ай бұрын

    I really like your work, remaking those sounds in vital after watching your video has helped me so much! always inspiring❤

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    11 ай бұрын

    Thank you! :)

  • @michajabonski8365
    @michajabonski8365 Жыл бұрын

    @AkashThakkarAudio :O just wow!

  • @spinosound
    @spinosound4 ай бұрын

    Wow! What a great tutorial!!🙏🏼💥🎉

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you! :)

  • @public_hell
    @public_hell Жыл бұрын

    great technique, thank you!

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Glad you like it. :)

  • @thatcherblackwood
    @thatcherblackwood Жыл бұрын

    this is amazing, thank you

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, I'm glad it's helpful. :)

  • @turbinchik
    @turbinchik8 ай бұрын

    Thanks! That was interesting!

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    8 ай бұрын

    Thank you; glad you like it. :)

  • @sziartopeter8943
    @sziartopeter89434 ай бұрын

    awesome vid!

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you! :)

  • @reeceakana1322
    @reeceakana13225 ай бұрын

    Yo this is sick. Are you working on any projects right now for games or film?

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    5 ай бұрын

    Thanks for your comment. :) Working on several projects but nothing game or film related at the moment. :)

  • @redrider2865
    @redrider2865 Жыл бұрын

    This is absolutely incredible! I have a question, do you think you could apply these techniques into synthesizing gunshots?

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely. :) Maybe you've already seen my video on gunshots: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fmaWzdCjnpOnnMo.html In this video I process raw gunshot recordings. And you will see that I use the gunshot recordings mainly for the tail and I create the transient/ punch with completely different recordings. You could do the same here and use these synthesized sounds mainly as the tail of the gunshot and then use any punchy sound you want to layer it and give it more impact.

  • @YoureNowOnTV
    @YoureNowOnTV Жыл бұрын

    Awesome design! The Drum Bus effect seems super important in this sound, I wonder what they equivalent would be in Logic Pro?

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm not familiar with Logic Pro, but from a quick google search I guess that the Enveloper stock plugin is a transient shaper. The only other thing I'm using drum buss for is distortion; so you can simply try out the different distortions in Logic Pro and see what kind of results you get. :)

  • @YoureNowOnTV

    @YoureNowOnTV

    Жыл бұрын

    @@NGTVST Thanks for going to that trouble of looking up a solution, very kind of you.☺ I wonder if boomerang techniques are a good idea for Vital? Meaning creating a basic sample from Vital then bringing that back into vital as a sample to then re-process? That way it would be a saved patch rather than a DAW reliant process. I've done that with noises but in this application it might work a treat?. Just a spitball idea. Thanks again! 😀👍

  • @kjellbeats
    @kjellbeats Жыл бұрын

    great video! where did you get the sounds from that you used for the texture?

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! These are all sounds I recorded myself. :)

  • @kjellbeats

    @kjellbeats

    Жыл бұрын

    @@NGTVST they sound great :)

  • @kinglee_653
    @kinglee_653 Жыл бұрын

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    : D

  • @basedsantana
    @basedsantana8 ай бұрын

    can you provide a download link for the foley audio pack? thanks

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    8 ай бұрын

    These are just my own recordings, not a sample pack. :)

  • @lunarcatx
    @lunarcatxАй бұрын

    Drum buss seems to be really important in the chain. I don't have Ableton, what plugin do I use instead?

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Ай бұрын

    You can just use a transient shaper and any distortion plugin that you have available; this is what I'm using drum buss for in this case. Try out different distortion plugins to see which sounds best for this and also play around with the order of the plugins (transient shaper into distortion or the other way around). I use transient shaping and distortion at quite extreme settings in this case, but depending on the plugins you end up using, you might use more moderate settings. I hope this helps. :)

  • @lunarcatx

    @lunarcatx

    Ай бұрын

    @@NGTVST thanks for the tips!

  • @kobi2643
    @kobi26436 ай бұрын

    what library are those plastic sounds from ?

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    6 ай бұрын

    These are my own recordings :)

  • @KnotLõ-ADSR
    @KnotLõ-ADSR Жыл бұрын

    Can u plz explain how u made this in stereo?

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    It's called the haas effect. It's just using a stereo delay and then slightly delaying one of the two sides. Typically the delay time is kept below 20 ms, because if the delay is any longer than that, it will become audible. Due to the difference between the left and the right signal, the sound is in stereo. I have a really short video on this showing it with the Ableton stock delay: kzread.info/dash/bejne/X2uJrc-rYKjYprQ.html Hope this helps. :)

  • @KnotLõ-ADSR

    @KnotLõ-ADSR

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@NGTVST I'm going to make a track based of this information. Thank you so much!!!

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KnotLõ-ADSR Be aware that the downside of this technique is that it can cause phase issues when the signal is summed to mono. Sometimes it's better to use specific plugins that "stereoize" the signal and preserve phase coherence if you want to maintain stereo compatibility. :)

  • @AddlerMartin
    @AddlerMartin Жыл бұрын

    Me listening to the video with compressor ON on Linux: "why the explosions sound not that impactful?"

  • @NGTVST

    @NGTVST

    Жыл бұрын

    System-wide compressor? Yeah, that can be confusing. : D

  • @AddlerMartin

    @AddlerMartin

    Жыл бұрын

    @@NGTVST I use it so I can watch movies without waking up my son :)

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