Taking Care of Your Shrunken Princess ASMR

skysayl

@littlest-lily It’s just a matter of separating the tracks into left and right channels. The tricky bit is smoothing them out in between.

foreverlurk

@littlest-lily Can you imagine what (or who) put those 3D audio thoughts (literally) in my head, uh?

For a static recording, on the hardware side I think there are binaural microphones that allow you to record directly in 3D. Or, like @skysayl said, you can use manual panning to get the same effect but I guess there’s more work involved. My only experience is mixing music but that’s another ball game.

I’m doing research for a little project of mine on the software side of things, namely audio APIs, algorithms to simulate realistic spatial audio effects, room acoustics, sound source directivity, and HRTF functions. But that’s mostly about how to transform existing sounds to 3D in realtime for, say, a VR environment.

skysayl

@foreverlurk said in Taking Care of Your Shrunken Princess ASMR:

there’s more work involved.

I think you can use two microphones back to back to simulate the listener’s ears? And move around them with your props and all. I can probably test that later.

littlest-lily

@skysayl What software do you use? I’m used to stuff like final cut pro or imovie, but I’ve focused on the video editing and have never separated tracks in that way before.

skysayl

@littlest-lily Don’t really need anything fancy if all you’re doing is voiceover. I’ve used Reaper once or twice, but I keep coming back to Audacity. Nice and simple!

protect-tinies

@miss-lillipants Speaking as someone who HAS recorded himself doing this stuff, I hate listening to my own voice too. Here’s my secret for success: I never listen to my own recordings. I just record myself narrating the script, do it all in one take, and then I listen to the first one or two seconds of the recording (just to make sure it recorded correctly) and turn it off as fast as I can. Then I post it online without doing any further “quality control.” To this day, I’ve never listened to one of my own recordings all the way through. Not even once. It’s a very effective tactic! You just have to resist the urge to be a perfectionist about it. (I think that perfectionism is what causes people to listen through their own recordings, looking for flaws and problems.)

foreverlurk

In case anyone is interested, here’s a few more SW audio that I enjoyed - maybe I’ll do a playlist with everything I’ve found and share it later.

Safe in Your Hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNwUvRi3vXU

Your Flatmates Little Issue
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CPMyexJwVg
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f83pr6pD6hM
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDxmNSdQx5Y

miss-lillipants

@foreverlurk said:

Your Flatmates Little Issue

Yesssss! This one is really cute. The first part is my favourite since she describes things from her new perspective

foreverlurk

@miss-lillipants Really liked it too but I’m not a fan of the way the story ends - you can probably guess why - but there are so few SW audio out there, I can’t complain.

A common thing I love about those is the way the SW first presents herself as being able to care for herself, she doesn’t want to be a burden, etc. But when faced with the reality of being so vulnerable they ask for the giant’s protection.

Honestly, a tiny lady saying she feels safe and protected with me… that makes me fucking melt.

Jötunn

@skysayl All you ha to do was ask

I didn’t even know of SW ASMR until I found this post and I love the potential I see here
Did you share your recordings here?

skysayl

@Visitor6996 No, because I haven’t done any size-related ones before. They’re a bit scattered because I don’t keep a social media page. One is posted to archive, there’s two or three I did for gonewildaudio (the account is deleted and I never reposted them,) I’ve got a WIP and one I haven’t gotten around to uploading. Then a bunch of scattered little recordings in discord for shits and giggles. I like to do funny impressions of annoying gremlin-like characters and bug my friends with them so they’re… all over my dms. I’m a mess.

All said, if I do record something sizey I will definitely share here!