Need static sounds

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I'm editing a film clip and I have it set up as if the guy is talking to someone from a laptop and the visual of the guy would go static and then back to normal as he is talking. What I need to do is find the sound of static noise that I can lay in. Does anyone know where I can either buy or??? the sound? Any help would be great - Thanks
 
Pond5.com helped me out with FM band searching sounds. I just checked and there is a number of sounds when I searched for "static".
 
It's good that you got an assist so quickly. In the future, consider looking at Freesound.org : http://www.freesound.org . There's a lot of great sound effects there and most of the licenses are essentially free or free with attribution. Ok, there's a good deal of less-than-useful stuff there, too, but it's worth looking through before paying somebody.

Cheers,

Stephen H
 
That is also something that is very easy to record. Even with out a mic*.

But if you want to sell it it's going to take more than static. You are going to need to get into and out of the "static", and if your on static for any length of time you probably want to add something to it to vary it up a bit. You will probably want something a bit more "arc" like to use as a transition.

* pretty much every computer around has a line or mic input and some ability to record. Take the headphone out jack on an analog tuning radio and plug it into the computer and play with the tuning. You will get a lot of free static, and a boatload of other good tuning kinds of sounds.

For electrical arc like sounds take the tip that was going into the radio and drag it over metal surfaces, especially ones that have some power related to them. A lamp for instance. A very small amount of the current gets induced into the metal of the lamp and this can really help get good "arc" like sounds. You can use this to generate all kinds of sparks and arcs that sound like big voltage and dangerous stuff all from the safety of your chair.
 
white/pink noise would be perfect for this if you want I can make a quick little clip of both white noise and pink noise that way you can have a choice of which you want to use.
 
I created 1 stereo white noise, 1 stereo pink noise, 1 mono white noise, and 1 mono pink noise. All running 5min. long maybe a bit over kill in length but you can always cut it to size. Files are .wav at 48kHz 24bits I combined all 4 into a zip file and are uploading will PM the link shortly
 
Maybe you mean a two channel Pink noise. "stereo" white/pink noise is not really possible unless maybe you played some mono Pink and recorded it at a distance in stereo.
 
Noiz2 said:
That is also something that is very easy to record. Even with out a mic*.

But if you want to sell it it's going to take more than static. You are going to need to get into and out of the "static", and if your on static for any length of time you probably want to add something to it to vary it up a bit. You will probably want something a bit more "arc" like to use as a transition.

* pretty much every computer around has a line or mic input and some ability to record. Take the headphone out jack on an analog tuning radio and plug it into the computer and play with the tuning. You will get a lot of free static, and a boatload of other good tuning kinds of sounds.

For electrical arc like sounds take the tip that was going into the radio and drag it over metal surfaces, especially ones that have some power related to them. A lamp for instance. A very small amount of the current gets induced into the metal of the lamp and this can really help get good "arc" like sounds. You can use this to generate all kinds of sparks and arcs that sound like big voltage and dangerous stuff all from the safety of your chair.
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Great post Noiz... I'm going to run out and try the arc sounds! Zealand, try what Noiz suggests, and you'll be taking some first real steps into sound design...
 
thesoundguy said:
the signal generator generates both pink and white noise... Which is what static is...
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Well it's part of what static is. It's also really boring.

IF the OP only needs a burst then it might work with some volume automation. But if it's on for more than a second or so straight noise will not sound good.

BTW for the OP, pink noise is just filtered white noise. White noise is equal energy in all frequencies and pink is filtered so it's equal energy in each octave. Essentially it's white noise with the highs rolled off. TV static is pretty close to white noise but it's not as constant.

Static in general can sound like many things. In radio it is often very crackly and much less white noisy. In old shortwave radios that have a BFO (Beat frequency Oscillator) to help with tuning you get that tone that changes pitch depending o how close to locked in you are riding on top of a static that is also changing pitch.
 
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