DAD 310
Sound Design for Film
project — · week 10

Reverb and Echo

assigned Oct 30
due Nov 6

We’ll do a short assignment where we use different plugins in Reaper to put a sound in different places.

For this assignment we’ll use the following plugins: ReaDelay, ReaVerbate, and ReaVerb.

You will be adding onto your sound effects assignment. You will create four sends for four different types of acoustic spaces for sound effects. Name each one, ex. “large space”, “small bathroom”, etc.

A delay with a medium length delay time can create the impression of a large space because there will be audible echos. This is the same effect as when you’re outside and you hear sound bouncing off of a building.

The ReaVerbate plugin is a digital reverb plugin where the space is synthesized. The main controls are the room size, dampening and initial delay.

The ReaVerb plugin is an impulse response reverb plugin. This allows you to add the sound of real spaces to your audio. This is a very useful sound design plugin.

To get free impulse responses go to OpenAir .

Attention!! Make sure to include your impulse response file with your project. You have to do this manually. Just drag and drop it into the folder where your other sound files are.

Submit your project file to D2L by the due date.

graded on

Four sends 40%
Four named send busses, each a distinct, recognizable acoustic space.
Plugin choice 30%
ReaDelay, ReaVerbate, and ReaVerb each used where they fit; the impulse-response reverb uses a real IR.
Fit 20%
Send levels place the dry sounds convincingly in each space.
Files 10%
Impulse response file included in the project folder; submitted on D2L by the due date.