![]() I've done this on a few shows, and my 'secret sauce' seemed to work fine without ever getting in the way of dialog. Unless there's a visible lav in the shot, the 8mm sound was presumably done with a mic near (or built into) the camera. One other trick: combing and a very tight slap. ![]() And of course some whine from the camera motor. (That last is easy with a modulated DDL.) Also an occasional click and jump, matching a few frames' jump cut in the pix, will help do the job. Very narrow bandwidth along with the distortion, a few random sharp peaks in the mids, and wow and flutter. The important thing is selling the story.įor the 8mm stuff, don't try to capture classic film sound. That would tend to blur the difference between your 8mm stuff and your "pretend 35mm optical" stuff. ![]() Remember, people will be hearing this through their own or the theater's loudspeakers, probably with heavy data compression somewhere along the line. And of course, before the end of WWII there was never any usage of mag film or tape at all in Hollywood: It was all either phono-disc or optical film.Īnalog optical film has a whole different sound from other analog media.Ī strong suggestion that you -don't- try to make the rest of the film sound analog, after you've munged the 8mm stuff. The same was true for a lotta TV shows (even up 'till the mid-'70s). How old are we talkin'?ĭon't forget that if we're talkin' about any film most baby-boomers remember seeing in their childhood, the sound they heard always came from an optical track (with few exceptions). ![]() The surface noise was wrong, I guess, but it does say "old." Whatever. From what I could tell, they tracked with old ribbons, did some bandpassing, and slapped on some optical burbles and record-surface noise. I took one look and said, "You should just re-dub all of it." Then they had me do a couple hours of middle-dollar attempting. ![]() They went to one of the top guys in town who charged for several hours of top-dollar attempting before he said, "You should just re-dub all of it."Īnd then they came to me, highly recommended by someone I really should punch in the mouth one of these days ("Sure, Brent can do anything!"). In the early 90s there was this ad agency who wanted to convincingly intercut soundalike dialogue with the genuine stuff, which I'm sure their clients were paying a lot for. "Make it sound like an old movie," if that's what OP is after, is really hard. ![]()
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