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Posted by EgosXII on Sep-19-2009 07:04:

Ben Burtt- sound design

so, i was watching wall-e again.. love the film, and i love the sound-design of the thing! the voices sound so fkn mad imo...

anyways, so i just googled 'sounds from wall-e' to see if i could find some clean grabs from the film, so i didn't have to go thru and get some myself...

anyway! found out the guy who worked on it was the same guy who worked on star wars..
i guess when it came to film, i always considered the importance of the composer, people like Hanz zimmer are big idols for me for example, but had completely ignored the importance of the sound-scapers...

i guess it really hit home watching this video on how he created the lightsaber sound just how 1: important they are and 2: how much they must know about sound engineering...
also just made a big deal because i've been trying to create a lot of weird sounds and things for tunes lately, and realise how difficult it is to get a really interesting sound sometimes...

how much does this guy really define star wars.. where would it have been without the lightsabers, r2-d2 and chewbaccas voices etc??

anyways, i just thought it was cool and an often-overlooked role in film

checkout the video.. not sure how to imbed, i'll see if it works, otherwise just click the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WJ-8B6aUM

Posted by EgosXII on Sep-19-2009 07:08:

this one has an awesome look in his studio too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZRPHp3UxvA

Posted by Morvan on Sep-19-2009 08:53:

I will never understand why the first person that is mentioned when talking about soundtrack composers is always Hans Zimmer, eventhough there are way more accomplished composers like Bernard Herrmann, Henry Mancini, James Horner, John Barry, John Williams etc. to mention.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Sep-19-2009 09:45:

^ And Ennio Morricone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmsRFrN97ek&fmt=18

And Clint Mansell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUgC6215Gko&fmt=18

Posted by EgosXII on Sep-19-2009 10:37:

quote:
Originally posted by Morvan
I will never understand why the first person that is mentioned when talking about soundtrack composers is always Hans Zimmer, eventhough there are way more accomplished composers like Bernard Herrmann, Henry Mancini, James Horner, John Barry, John Williams etc. to mention.

i wasn't talking about accomplishment though..

i like zimmer because of his work: and in terms of production, his combination of synths with more traditional instruments

quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
^ And Ennio Morricone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmsRFrN97ek&fmt=18

And Clint Mansell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUgC6215Gko&fmt=18

i don't see zebra2 being used...

awesome, awesome songs though, don't get me wrong (love the fountain and it's soundtrack!), and i didn't say zimmer was the only one i liked or anything even close to that.
the thread was (i thought) clearly about the use of sound design and music technology in film, not about sound-tracks... hence the mention of zimmer who is famous for the combination of music technology with traditional composition.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Sep-19-2009 10:39:

If you want really great synthetic sound textures in a soundtrack, listen to Cliff Martinez's work on Traffic and Solaris.