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You can download it for free now, and the developer has a Patreon page if you want to check that out. It offers direct control of more parameters instead of bundling some things into single sliders. Spectral Lemuring has taken a less crude (than Spectral Monkeyage) approach to the GUI. Of course, any kind of lo-fi effect will lend itself well to Hip Hop, too. Pitch shifting like this could be useful in quite a few genres, especially things like minimal techno, where you have to create motion and tension with very little going on. While Spectral Lemuring doesn’t have the exact feature set of Spectral Monkeyage, it maintains the same not-so-subtle results and has a similar signal freeze function.įugue State Audio describes Spectral Lemuring as a lo-fi pitch shifter with some extra functionality. Dealing with things on this kind of spectral level can bring harsh or crude results that are occasionally quite lovely and just what you need. In the case of Spectral Monkeyage, there were up to 4,096 individual gates, one to represent each frequency band. Rather than letting everything pass through when the threshold is met (like a typical noise gate), spectral gating only allows frequency bands with a level exceeding the threshold to pass through. One of the things that made Spectral Monkeyage interesting was the single slider Spectral Gating feature. This measurement is often used for precise quality control analysis, but it can also lead to some pretty crazy effects. Most importantly, it can process the high-magnitude and low-magnitude parts of the FFT signal individually.įFT (Fast Fourier Transformation) provides frequency information about a signal by converting it into individual spectral components. Spectral Lemuring is inspired by the discontinued Spectral Monkeyage plugin from Shiny FX.Īlthough the freeware Spectral Lemuring plugin isn’t a direct emulation of Spectral Monkeyage, it does share some core characteristics. Read more in issue #10, including on Spectral Motion’s rat and melting man.Fugue State Audio offers Spectral Lemuring, a FREE spectral processing effect VST plugin for Windows-based digital audio workstations. And that I think that really imparts a soulfulness and a real presence to what you’re seeing on screen.” Issue #10 is all in on practical effects. We’re living what that puppet is supposed to be experiencing. We perform, we live the part of the character and whatever specific component we’re puppeteering, we’re emoting. “When we are on set performing with a puppet, we bill ourselves as puppeteers, but in fact, we’re actors. Witnessing his crew contributing this kind of live performance and creature work was particularly exciting for Elizalde. More of Spectral Motion’s impressive practical effects work. Gord was on the feet, and Sean was on the mechanical tongue. Ron was working on the arms as they came out of the well. “Richard, he’s a very tall guy so he was pulling the puppet out of the well. Spectral Motion’s team, consisting of Richard Landon, Ron Binion and McTurk, were joined by local puppeteers Sean Sansom and Gord Robertson. In terms of the puppeteering of the ghoul, this occurred on a half-scale greenscreen set in Toronto, representing the emergence of the creature from a well. There were also insert hands that were full-sized and insert feet, which we could use to grab Crispin Glover’s character.” Then we also had different levels of rot on the legs and very specific looks on the hands.

We weighted it and experimented ways of getting the proper sway. The direction del Toro gave here, relates McTurk, was that the ghoul have a very defined chin waggle. The creature began at Spectral as a traditional clay sculpture orchestrated by Akihito Ikeda, Andy Bergholtz and Savannah Suderman. “He loved the gangly quality that we could bring to a puppeteering performance.”

“The early conversations were that Guillermo wanted to see what sort of puppet performance we could bring as opposed to a man in a suit,” notes McTurk. Based on concepts from creature concept designer Guy Davis, Spectral Motion was tasked with building a half-scale 36-inch tall rod puppet that would be filmed against greenscreen and composited into final shots in the episode as a seven-foot tall monster. The ghoul character appears in the episode ‘Pickman’s Model’, directed by Keith Thomas. The animatronics by Spectral Motion behind the ghoul. Here’s an excerpt from issue #10 of befores & afters magazine about the ghoul.

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We were thrilled to take it on.”Ĭentral to Spectral Motion’s tasks on the series were a ghoul character, a queen rat and a ‘melted man’, all stunningly realized for on-set performances. “And, he’s a monster guy, so it’s very thrilling to have him on the Zooms laying out what he wants. “He’s just wonderful because he’s so specific about what he wants,” adds Spectral Motion project manager Kevin McTurk.

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