How to make music sound scary!

This is my first Instructable and it shows how to make any music (mp3) file sound scary using the free software tool, Audacity. An example of scary music is this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jwj0gLriTnk

Step 1: Get your stuff together!

If you don't already have it you need to download and install Audacity and the LAME MP3 encoder from this link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
And you'll also need a music .mp3 file to make scary.

Comments

[admin]

This is a great Instructable, but you need to add a main image of the final project to the intro step. Please do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks!

[emuman4evr]

I added the main image to the intro step, or at least I hope I did.

[tinker234]

wow that song just sounded so funny i couldnt breath and then i fell over laughing so hard thanks i think a darker song would sound cool i like it my nightmares have a new sound track form the screams of totured victims yay

[cyan_shadow]

Man you are Great!!! I made the Rammstein`s Mein Teil sounds scary...it sounds scary and cool

[RedFlash]

You could do that with people's voices. That would sound scary

[deathsmileyinc]

I did this to pshycho from system of a down, it was more disturbing than scary 0_o but its an nice Instructable

[Gage987]

almost died when i did this to 21 guns

[bugmenot]

I did this to 'Song 2' by Blur (AKA: The Woo-Hoo song), and it sounds normal for the first 15sec (drum solo), and gets progressively weirder as it goes on. At some points, it becomes near-unintelligible. Sweet. Great 'ible, 5-stars + Favorited.

[Flumpkins]

Look, I'm constantly avoiding a video on youtube, and may I know the title of the clip in the link? And perhaps the tags?

[Flumpkins]

nvm, I bit the bullet and clicked it... That's weird!!! I though I got Rickroll'd. But I didn't.

[emuman4evr]

Its scary what some things sound like...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1MFy_eBQAUE&watch_response

[Flumpkins]

Look, I'm constantly avoiding a video on youtube, and may I know the title of the clip in the link? And perhaps the tags?

[CapnTac]

Title: Scary Love Tags: barney scary love A scary version of the "I love you" song from Barney.

[ReCreate]

woah i gotta hear that can you upload the video elsewhere?(google video) or at least the mp3 here at instructables(i think you can upload mp3 files)

[CapnTac]

I don't own the video.

[Flumpkins]

HOLY CRAP! Thats freaky...

[Fizzxwizz]

Here are some of my scarys, I just made them :Dhere and here

[metal-matt]

hmm i gave it a go, it work somewhat, kinda just made it sound downtuned, ohh yea i did this on myown song, i can post a link if you would like ;), but i have a music myspace for my solo project "Immortal Fire", here the URL http://www.myspace.com/immortalfireband
enjoy :D

[davidprosser]

soz lol i couldn't resist - what was the aim of "Know your guitar"....

[emuman4evr]

It typically works better for some music, and usually its a nice idea to have voice in the music.

[k3000]

ive got loads of audio files that are wma and audacity cant open them can you tell how to convert them to a mp3 file

[emuman4evr]

You need to google a wma to mp3 converter. I recommend LAME.

[awkrin]

lol I tried a pop-rock song and it doesn't sound like it's singing any more

[PKTraceur]

I Tried this with the song Paralyzer, it sounds normal... cept it sounds like a girl.... weird

[emuman4evr]

Did you do 3 separate tracks with the first 2 half steps higher, the second -2 half steps lower, and the third -4 half steps lower? Just out of curiosity I tried it on that song and it seemed to sound correct. However if you do 4, 2, and -2 then it sounds exactly like you described it.

[PKTraceur]

no, i didnt do 2. -2, the -4... thanks for telling me!

[Thaikarl]

make it even more freeky... i made 3 duplicate tracks. modified tracks 1, 2, and 3 as per instructions, left track 4 alone (so it's natural sounding.) then, select the first third of track 1 and do an Effects>Fade In. then fade in the second track, but make the selection a little longer, then fade in the third track, again, make the selection a little longer than the second track selection. then, select the forth track from about one third in all the way to the end, and use Effects>Fade out. this way, your track starts out sounding normal, then it gets weirder and weirder as the pitch changed tracks fade in and the normal track fades out. you could also do the weird track fade outs to the ends of the tracks, so your sound starts normal, gets weird and scary, then becomes normal again. cool!

[spartan094]

Another good way is to slow it down and reverse it.

[emuman4evr]

Already done that, gives the slow mo effect but as ghostly as this one.

[Cereleste]

I tried it. It sounds amazing, thanks for showing me the program Audacity, I've been looking for a good program to use for adjusting audio, and this works great!

[spellbound life]

wow this was loads of fun! Thanks for your help.

[emuman4evr]

Yay someone actually did this and commented, I'm glad you liked it.