The ONE Sound Effect That Made Goldeneye 007's Music Iconic

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[croixlyde]

Nothing beats the pause screen music 😂

[Stubs]

I think Eric Serra is insanely underrated/forgotten as a composer. His stuff is truly original and phenomenal. Goldeneye, The Fifth Element, The Professional...just awesome.

[PersianPlatypus]

In case anyone wasn't aware, Grant Kirkhope was also the composer of other iconic N64 games of the time like Banjo Kazooie and DK64

[brewstew]

The elevator music is my outro music. It still rips to this day

[PPSilenced]

People swear by gameplay but such a big part of a first-person shooter game is its audio and Goldeneye 007 was amazing. I stand by saying it's one of the best game soundtracks of the 90s.

[anotherastronaut_]

that "far away/echo/pipe/bang" sound really ties all the music in every level together and adds some cohesion to all the pieces. It also kind of gives you the sense that youre in a "big/mysterious" place while youre playing. what a neat sound

[timothymbess]

5:35 - that alternative harmonizing is basically how the Skyfall theme starts.

[heavyq]

The fact that like, 8 people made this game is what makes Goldeneye all that more special. The multiplayer was done by two-dudes in a few weeks. Crazy for how good this game is.

[DigiAloe]

the classic 007 "pipe" sound is a heavily down pitched tambourine/cymbal hit with some reverb (the actual sample is from the EMU Proteus FX)
I know because I made music using this very same technique

[EdinMike]

As a 10 year old I beat the game in 007 mode… and at 35 now I’m jealous of my former kid self !

[XylessBrawl]

The real most fun cheat was Paintball Mode. It's surprising that like no games do that one, it's just turning bullet holes into paint splats and makes the game way more colorful with one small change.

[Aloysius]

I really truly think that the Rare guys, particularly Kirkhope and Norgate, do not get enough credit for how much impact they've had on video games. I would argue that both should definitely go in the pantheon of "greatest video game music composers".

Frankly I would love to see you do more bits like this on their work. Perfect Dark, Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong, Timesplitters, Viva Piñata... so many EXCELLENT soundtracks between them!

[Whiteythereaper]

The Goldeneye Overture using Timpani to play out the Bond theme is INCREDIBLE. Absolute genius that some composers would never think to do.

[MichaelSmith-onig]

Pinpointing the pitch of a sliding door from memory is the nerdiest thing I’ve seen in a long time😀

[SpaceFox]

That iconic GoldenEye sound was made by using a tamborine, adding a lot of reverb and lowering the pitch. It was used to give a "hammer and sickle" vibe of the Soviet Union, since a lot of the movie and game takes place in Russia.

[papamike]

Nothing beats that iconic sound at the beginning of "Facility" theme. I heard so many remakes of this track and no one was able to recreate it.

[Grayfox]

I love when composers take a leitmotiv and adapt it through the whole OST .

[acrophis]

I love that pipe hit sound effect. It comes up in a lot of 90s games. It's all over the FF7 OST, for example.

[Kasino]

The Goldeneye movie score works so incredibly well for that perticular movie. It was so different that it was perfect for the new Bond era.

[Lmpfapo]

The detail you go into with how composers and such go about musical ideas fascinates me. I feel like you're one of the best on YouTube who does this type of content. You always make me look at creating music differently without fail.