How Walter Murch Worldized Film Sound

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Walter Murch gave a two day master class in my university about 15 years ago, to say the least, he is an eminence, everyone in the room knew who he was and he gave away all his knowledge and told exactly how he did what he did, with extreme detail, from where he put the mics in a space to how he edited everything. Very few professionals give away knowledge like he does, his name deserves to be mentioned along with the Spielbergs, Scorseses and Fellinis

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"Go out and create some problems" way ahead of you sir.

SunnyGoodbye

The technique is often used together with kicks and snares in music production where you blend digital and real sounds to create a vivid alternative. Cool stuff.

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vladimirm

My brain can't handle thinking of how difficult doing sound for movies in a pre-computer age must have been.

JustSomeCanadianGuy

So, The Godfather is pretty much the Godfather of worldizing sound design

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hrithik

Another benefit: having the prerecorded sound gives the actors something to bounce off of. Having music playing and then dancing to the music in real time is way more natural than dancing to silence

argella

You left out a very big thing that Walter would do to mess with the accoustics when worldizing when you need a bigger echo than the place you have.

You record the clean version at half tape speed. Then, when you rerecord it in the echo room, you play it back at normal speed. This will have the sounds from the clean play at double speed. The worldize recorder records that at double tape speed.

The result is that you now cancelled out the sped up chipmunk version of the clean source, but you've doubled the delay for all the echoes.

By doing this, Walter could do the rerecording in a large room and get the accoustics of a space twice as big.

You can do it more extreme by using third or fourth speed for the source and compensating at rerecord with the appropriate speedup to get even bigger echoes. You get increasingly lower fidelity source on tape but you probably have a full speed separate source to use in the final mix anyway for that.

You can do it in digital as well. But I'd recommend doubling the sample rate at both playback and rerecording to make sure you get enough detail out of the room.

Walter was really an out of the box thinker. :D

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