Alan Meyerson mixing the 'Dune' Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer | Trailer

Explore a new musical universe with Alan Meyerson, as he takes you inside the award-winning soundtrack to Dune.

In this new series, Alan zooms in on the blockbuster’s musical score, composed and produced by Hans Zimmer. Join him as he explores the mix of “Leaving Caladan”, the instantly recognizable cue featuring performances by Guthrie Govan, Tina Guo and Loire Cotler.

As Alan works his way through the arrangement, he shares his essential techniques for creating highly immersive mixes in quadraphonic sound. With the help of specialist tools, he demonstrates how he creates depth, dynamics and density with only four channels. From weighted panning to “rotation-based” dynamics processing, you will learn an array of new techniques for crafting standout multichannel mixes.

Alan’s masterful balance all comes together within his custom mixing matrix. He offers an up-to-date look at this, with a focus on his bus processing and stem management strategies. These elegant solutions enable him to make mix tweaks on the fly, while ensuring a maximum level of flexibility during the final dub.

[reid]

The way he says "Hans' mix ... my mix" with the switchover is just epic. So much flex.

[HalfJoked]

Mix with the Masters bringing so many BANGERS lately holy moly

[hummarstraful]

Alan is a beast. Loved his previous videos. I use his MaxxBass trick on my snares everyday.

[Jaa_morant]

We want to hear the full version of FOALS x Hans Zimmer track called Neptune. It was released 2 years ago for some bbc documentary but we heard only 50 second piece. Why wouldn’t anyone release the full? I mean, musicians worked on the full track but time one just hiding it from people. What a shame

[cheesebig]

I've been making music/beats since I was 21 I'm turning 34 in September I'm thinking about making the switch over to audio engineering I just hope I didn't wait too late to make that switch

[AP-nhtf]

This score freaking sucked, and Villeneuve's sound direction made it nigh unwatchable. The SFX were great, but the CONSTANT blaring in your face HZ cacophony was entirely overdone and unnecessary. You need to learn a little thing called nuance. Who in their right mind would think, "This scene is EPIC, oh, that scene is EPIC, the whole movie must be EPIC. Paul and Jessica are having a heartfelt talk about the death of Paul's father. Let's put this screaming woman in the background repeating the most annoying 3 frequencies in the history of sound over and over and over. Better yet, let's put her front and center, crank her mic to eleventy-billion, and have the actors whisper their dialog so the cackling hen drowns out every syllable. PERFECT!" ??? Pure idiocy. The wailing woman must have been the highest paid participant, because there was only maybe 2 minutes of footage where she wasn't crapping all over the soundtrack. About 12 seconds of the movie was pure silence, which would have been glorious were it not for the ringing in my ears, and the resulting cochlear blood trail. I would say I have carpal tunnel in my thumb now from the constant volume button games required to hear the dialog and not get slaughtered by the scene change, but I know in my heart the carpal tunnel likely originated with Tenet.

Yes Denis (with 1 n), we know you think dialog sucks, but that's no excuse to aurally rape your audience. Do you and Nolan have tea parties and laugh about how crap your movie sound is, and yet they keep hiring you as directors? Inconceivable. Please, please, stop making movies. Or, at the very least, stop doing the sound design.

You should really just hire Skywalker Sound, tell them bass exists below 30Hz, and stay the F out of it. Put Endgame on repeat and tell me anything Villeneuve or Nolan has done in the last 10 years holds a candle to that masterful soundscape.

In the words of Juan Peralta of Skywalker Sound, "I was very conscious the audience wasn't hit over the head with the sound."

In the words of Denis Villeneuve and Christopher Nolan (or what I assume they would say), "I wish to bludgeon the audience and leave them bleeding from the head. Dialog sucks, the audience sucks and I hate them. I wish they would just die. Why? Because ART, oh, and me, mee, Meee, Suck it."

[sedwords]

Zimmer's kinda dull to me. What am I not hearing?