I like to make and listen to lofi stuff, and one of the trademark sounds used in lofi music is vinyl crackle for ambiance. Does anyone know how you could replicate this without samples?
I like to make and listen to lofi stuff, and one of the trademark sounds used in lofi music is vinyl crackle for ambiance. Does anyone know how you could replicate this without samples?
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you could use the noise oscillator on the pulv and mess around with the color knob, then add a crusher and play with the bits and downsampling knobs
i'll give that a shot
If you filter the noise generator of the Pulverisateur through a Bitcrusher pedal set to a low "Bits" value (around 5), you get random very brief "pops" of noise. You can adjust the output level of the Pulverisateur to get the right frequency of pops. You can add a tiny bit of the shortest reverb and distortion to make them a bit fuller, then split them in two signals and pan each hard left and right for a stereo effect (delay one of them a fairly big amount, for example 5 to 7 8T steps with a Delay pedal so that they don't happen at the same time). You still need two other layers of sound for the high-pitched hiss and the low rumble. The first one you can also get with blue or purple noise passing through a Bitcrusher with moderate settings (9 or 8 bits) and the second with brown noise or with a closed low-pass filter. You could get all the layers from a single Pulverisateur set to white noise (so you start with an equal distribution of all frequencies) and splitting its output for each one, then using a mixer (the Minimixer should be enough) to combine them and adjust their relative levels. It's quite a lot of work (crackle is a complex and very organic sound) but worth a try. Hope this helps.