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I would frankly like to hear the sounds of a spewing, gushing, burning volcano, even if it's underneath the (also very fun to listen to) sound of the drone itself and all the wind noise. It doesn't seem like a huge leap in intuition to realize that this would be exciting to hear even if the environment is noisy.


Every sound you've ever heard on a nature program is fake, that is to say it's mixed in after from other sources.


>Every sound you've ever heard

That's a really broad claim. DO you have a source for this statement?


yeah I wouldn't say _Every_ but a very large majority most certainly are. I used to delight in ruining people's enjoyment of nature documentaries by pointing out that anything walking on snow is the sound of custard powder being crunched and twisted in a rubber glove! Yeah: I'm a bastard ;)


I think you would enjoy this wonderful old Jam Handy video called Back of the Mike:

https://archive.org/details/Backofth1938


I like the growl that is administered to every video cat larger than a fat tabby. IF I ever hear that sound IRL, I won't be thinking cougar or bobcat, rather how to deter the jaguar from crushing my skull.


There is a soundbite used to dub over the top of replays in Premiership football as broadcast on terrestrial TV here in the UK. Once you notice it's exactly the same sound every time it's something you can never not notice and it's infuriating! There are a few whoops and screams in it that get me every time and make me cringe.

In this vein there's an amazing line from Man on The Moon when Kaufman refuses to let canned laughter be dubbed over his show: "That's dead people laughing! You know all those people they recorded are dead by now, right!?"


Drones are very noisy. Unless you take special precautions, the sound from the camera is going to be mostly rotor buzz.


Which as I mentioned is a really cool sound that I would like to hear.


using the original sound source wouldn't work with the slomo effect he used.




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