How to Make Unique Whoosh Sound Effects for Your Songs
In this sound design video, you'll learn how to create a whoosh sound effect that's perfect for your song's transitions, inspired by great music producers like Zedd.
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⏰ Chapters:
Intro 00:00
The Body of a Whoosh FX: Reverse Snare Layer 01:14
The Sparkle of a Woosh FX: Reverse Crash Layer 03:07
The Power of a Whoosh FX: Bass Pitch Bomb 03:55
The Cherry on the Cake: Doppler Effect 05:15
Make Your Woosh Unique With Modulation Effects 08:43
📝 Video Transcription:
In this sound design video, you'll learn how to create a whoosh sound effect that's perfect for your song's transitions, inspired by great music producers like Zedd. Here's a preview:
And you're going to be able to create your own variations of that effect, with only a few drum samples, and some stock effects from your DAW, no matter which one you use.
Hey, how are you? I'm Thales, pop music producer, and even though there are specific plugins to make the woosh effect, like I'll show you later in this video, I think it's fun to design them from scratch.
And we're going to do that in four steps. So let's jump into my DAW and see what's going on.
Alright so these are the tracks that I consider the minimum for making an interesting whoosh effect that encompasses the full frequency spectrum, from subs to high frequencies.
Four Tracks, and some of them are grouped up. The four steps to achieving this sound are:
First, reverse a snare sample.
Second, reverse a crash cymbal sample.
Third, layer a sub oscillator.
And fourth, create some basic automation on the volume, panning and pitch to emulate a doppler effect.
Let's do the whole process step-by-step together.
Reversing a snare sample. So first, check your sample library for any snare sample, preferably one that has some good low end content, like this random snare I picked from my library, which has good content at arround 100 to 200 Hertz.
That will give our effect a nice body.
Then take that snare sample, and reverse it. If you're in Ableton Live, just double click the snare clip, then click these arrows to reverse the sample.
Now, pick whatever reverb effect you have. I'm using Valhalla Vintage Verb — it's a personal preference — but it could be any reverb, like the ones that come with your DAW.
Add this reverb to your snare track, and make sure it has a nice tail. I just picked the first preset I found, increased the decay a bit, and it already sounded cool.
I left the mix knob at 100% reverb, but you could use a drier setting, that would just make your final result punchier.
Now, resample this snare with the reverb because we're going to reverse it again. In Ableton Live, just freeze and flatten the track.
Once you've flattened it, duplicate the track because we're going to use the snare in two different positions.
The first layer will stay just like it already is.
The second layer will be reversed, and we're only going to use a small part of it, to anticipate the first layer, which will make the sweep a bit longer.
So try to align the loudest parts of the waveform, the transient, but don't worry about getting it perfectly aligned.
Then we're going to cut this second layer short, and add a fader to smoothen the rise a little.
Here's what is sounds like so far:
This is already a good effect. You could go ahead and use it in your song, and it would sound cool.
But let's make it fancier. Let's add the crash cymbal layer.
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