00:00 Hi guys, this is Douglas Glad from Hot Rod and I'm here with Mark, Paul and Charlie from
00:17 Formosa Group.
00:18 These are the guys who put the sound to vehicles in movies.
00:22 What they do is they take burnouts and engine noises and they lay it onto the film.
00:25 So why don't you tell us a little bit about what you're going to do today.
00:29 We are going to find where the car sounds the most interesting and put mics to record
00:33 it from the tailpipe to under the engine to inside the car and just various flavors that
00:38 we'll blend to make the sound of the car in the movie.
00:40 So in case you guys don't recognize this car, this is the '57 Chevy Project X.
00:45 It's the most popular '57 probably in the world.
00:48 These guys are going to mic it up.
00:50 We're going to drive around and create a sound library and then we're going to go back to
00:54 their studio and see how the magic works.
01:00 So when we first started the car and listened to it, it's got a great interesting whine
01:04 which is stereotypical for the car.
01:06 So basically there's going to be wires everywhere that get taped to the car.
01:10 We'll find a way to put another Omni mic close enough to be safe but at the same time capture
01:16 the sound.
01:17 You want to get the connector?
01:18 I think it's fine.
01:24 You might want to see this.
01:26 Making sure all the mics are hot.
01:33 So basically it's just a map of what mics are what.
01:36 What channels have what mics.
01:38 Because it's easy to lose track.
01:39 A lot of times you want to number them so when something's not working right you know
01:42 what to find to fix.
01:44 Right now Paul is setting up a microphone for the inside of the car.
01:48 A lot of times the insides of the cars don't sound all that interesting and not even that
01:52 useful but a car like this really will be.
01:56 Get it fired up?
01:59 Yeah.
02:00 In a perfect situation we would do everything that the car would do.
02:11 So we would start the car going as slow as possible.
02:15 Then you do 5 mile an hour increments and we'd eventually get up to however fast the
02:19 car can go.
02:20 100 miles an hour, 150 miles an hour.
02:22 You've got to cover the whole thing because you never know if you're going to get the
02:25 car back or not to record it again.
02:29 Okay we mic'd up the car.
02:30 We got some laps in.
02:32 Now we're going to go back to the studio in Santa Monica and put it all together.
02:52 So once we get the stuff recorded, get it into our DAW, we're able to look at it a little
02:58 closer and examine what the takes are.
03:01 The green files here represent the exterior recordings and the red files represent the
03:06 microphones that we had on board.
03:09 So my job primarily is to get these files and to cut them up so I would document that
03:16 as that and that becomes a clip for the library.
03:18 Normally we would do this for a whole day.
03:20 We'll have hours of the vehicle recorded and we can make a nice comprehensive library.
03:25 So we'll bring them, put them all together in one session and sort of line up all those
03:30 different sounds.
03:31 And then when you're putting the car together in a sequence, you want to be able to go find
03:34 quickly what you want to use.
03:36 So an old car that's as cool as that '57 Chevy, the tailpipe is pretty awesome so we try to
03:42 focus on that on any of the older cars and this is what we got for the same bike.
03:52 That's better.
03:53 If you add the engine, you get a lot more fidelity and the full bandwidth of the car
03:58 and that sounds something like this.
04:06 So you said you had eight different channels so you could take any part of that and make
04:10 it louder or quieter and then of course with the footage you can cut it in to the car approaching,
04:17 the car going by or even the car in a different place.
04:19 Exactly what we like to do, we will sync the inside sounds of the car with the outside
04:25 when someone's recording outside, we sync those sounds in the same timeline.
04:29 We'll have those perspectives already in time matching the performance so it sounds very
04:33 natural.
04:34 Super cool, really nice to meet you guys.
04:36 Thanks for putting the '57 Chevy noise on top of a Volkswagen four-door utility vehicle.
04:42 Thanks.
04:51 Thanks.
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