CD skipping effect

[nonetheless]

just wondering if any of you know how to achieve a CD skipping effect. for anyone confused by what I mean, you can hear an example in

'Bland Street Bloom' by Sikth. Just before the song kicks in

http://www.myspace.com/sikth


love to hear some responses.
cheers!

 

[smy1]

It's quite easy, although on this track it doesn't even sound like the normal stutter effect.

The easiest way to do it is: render the section of the song that you want to stutter to a stereo wav and reimport it. Then cut it up in 1/32nd or 1/64th and delete every other one. If it pops & clicks too much: make a little fade in/out for each segment.

Choose the gaps depending on how fast it should be.

Done. The manual way is the easiest.

 

[nonetheless]

thanks a lot dude. appreciate that !

 

[Torniojaws]

There's a plugin for it too. Check out dblue Glitch: http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/ it's a free VST that does a lot of other glitch effects too.

 

[smy1]

There are actually a bunch of chopper/stutter plugins. It's usually less controllable than cutting by hand, though.

 

[KeithTidd]

if you're using pro tools you could turn on the all group, make a selection (say 1/16th or whatever), copy it, then in grid mode paste it multiple times where you want it.

 

[Sean in Silence]

although the way smy1 explains how to do this definitely works (his way is the way I did it in my band's song No Sympathy For A Siren when the vocals come in on our myspace in my sig) there is another way to do it that makes it much more obvious that the skipping effect is taking place
Like in the beginning of Chelsea Smile by Bring Me The Horizon (http://www.myspace.com/bmth) the more obvious stutter effect is achieved by taking a very small sliver of the audio clip you which to loop and copying and pasting that SAME clip over and over again
space them out or put them right next to each other
it doesn't matter
it all depends on the effect you are going for