the birth of asmr soundscapes (Patreon)

I figured out the ultimate immersion combination for me personally. The secret is in the vagueness. 

As I've mentioned previously, creating realistic videos is very difficult with the limitations being background, acoustics, camera and microphone placement and angles. I would spend hours preparing for a video trying to figure out how to make it sound and look realistic for the viewer in first person but that way I lost some really good sounds that I'd rather have close up. It was difficult to get an aesthetically pleasing background and still be in front of the camera and not just be a shadow or blurry cheek or 70% double chin. And it was especially difficult to get the ambience just right with all these restrictions. 

Since in my last video (that is currently still rendering the no music version so you will see it tomorrow morning - sorry about that it froze while I was napping and I got upset and decided to play the sims and render it again overnight) I only had the soundscape to worry about and recorded a background separately, it gave me so much more freedom, especially in using all the binaural-ness of my recorder to the max. I was able to walk around, turn my head however I wanted, get the sounds as close to the recorder as I wanted, without it looking really weird on camera. Let me know if you also feel really awkward if an ASMRtist is obviously fumbling for sounds in a roleplay, like "here, I have this prop that is relevant to what I'm saying but makes really faint sounds, have a REAL CLOSE LOOK...", because I can't be the only one. Anyhow, doing video and audio separately allows me to effectively combine ambience and ASMR sounds. Aesthetics and relaxation. Look at something pretty while being showered with heaps of tingles. Many ASMRtists use a static background for their roleplays which is fine but I find that a simple, dynamic background just adds that extra bit of immersion. Taking away most of the visual stimulation leaves a lot of room for the viewer to dream and let their fantasy fill in the blank as long as the background is vaguely related to the roleplay. For example, as you will see, for the progressive muscle relaxation and sleep induction roleplay I did, I recorded just a simple slo-mo bokeh background. That's why I asked you to pick a color, because the default would have been yellow (pardon me, they call it "warm white" but fuck them, that's yellow) and with my software I have the option to make it any color you like. I actually picked the candle selections based on your color choice. I can see why most of you voted indigo, I sleep to that color light a lot. Yet still, the simple fading in and out of the blue lights is something you could imagine seeing in say a spa or a sleep clinic while receiving a relaxation treatment. In my personal opinion, it doesn't have to perfectly match - it just has to not clash. Like if the video was an evening setting but you could hear birdsong in the background, that would be an example of something that clashes. 

I'm excited to experiment with ambience and roleplays, lights and 3D sound to take you away in the gentlest way possible. 

And then there's my horror themed videos. lol

//Ally