Shake that Tooth!

Hi there! Been working recently on some monsters and this one was supposed to make weird sounds with his teeth – the direction was to go for some teeth chattering, jaw clanking, stuff that can be ennoying enough to make you stay away from him..

Regarding my original material for these audio sounds, it was multiple takes of teeth clanking and jaws dislocation movements from friendly co-workers. I recorded the sounds with an AKG C 414 and I had to compress them a lot because even if the person was quite close to the mic, the clanking was really soft.. Also I added compression and a bit of maximising as it helped me to get the presence and punch I needed, then I filtered with a low cut everything under 200 Hz which wasn’t needed for this type of sound.

To finish the processing, I automated a pitch shift plugin now and again and use time compression to make the clanking a little faster on certain sections. Here are a few extracts of the sounds :