Sound and Music for Games: The Basics of Digital Audio for Video Games

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R. CieslaSound and Music for Gameshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8661-6_3

3. Manipulating the Spectrum

Robert Ciesla¹  

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HELSINKI, Finland

 

You might remember how all audio sources generate acoustic waves between 20 Hz and 20 kHz, in the range of human hearing. This chapter will tackle the most fundamental approaches for manipulating the frequency spectrum, including equalization, compression, and virtual tape machines. Other effects will be explored later in the book; we’ll stick to the essentials in this chapter. You’ll be introduced to a few specific audio-processing effects (i.e., plugins) meant to run inside your favorite digital audio workstation ...