Evil sound effects belong to the bad guys and the places they live. Black magic spells and monster voices. Clocks ticking towards something nasty. Dark, rumbling ambiences that loop under a level, and nightmarish atmospheres built from church acoustics and twisted recordings. Then the characters: villains with lines to deliver, and a goblin or gremlin for the smaller kind of evil.
Evil in sound is mostly texture and timing. The noise box textures come from a box recorded straight from its contact microphone, then pitched and soaked in reverb and delay, raw material for a Demon or a room full of dread. The church-based ambiences take props recorded in a church and bend them into something unnerving. For timing, the ticking clock loops count down towards disaster. The magic set covers white and black magic both, so the hero and the villain can share a spellbook. They suit horror and dark fantasy, and the moment a villain finally steps into the light.
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