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I have to imagine that sounds like that from movies are entirely fabricated from a sound designer's mind. The best you could hope for would be a live sound reco

I have to imagine that sounds like that from movies are entirely fabricated from a sound designer's mind. The best you could hope for would be a live sound recording from a Goodyear blimp. In fact, from a quick Youtube check, the Goodyear Blimp sounds a lot like any other propeller driven plane on takeoff. While LTA's design is electric and hopefully quieter, it adds evidence that the desired sound from movies is probably fiction. Edit: clarity

tbalsam 3y ago
I have a sinking feeling under some further investigation that it may be! I am pretty sure that I've heard it in a few places, one of which being the Disney movie Up. I'm not sure how to describe it, it is a sensorially very unique and pleasant experience for me hearing it. Here's one example, starting roughly around 7-8 seconds or so: https://youtu.be/ah7I6jr-gKQ?feature=shared https://youtu.be/ah7I6jr-gKQ?feature=shared I listened to some older zeppelin/dirigible recordings based on your comment and they seem to make a rather nice, but also not as-euphoric fan whine. Noooooo, that is quite disappointing! I think there's one game that had an extremely highly punctuated, very clockwork-like soundtrack in one of its worlds that used the dirigible-whip sound as a base layer for one of its themes whenever you were in that part of the world. I'll see if I can find it. Curious that it shows up in a few places, there _has_ to be able origin for why people who are designers associate it with airships. It likely wouldn't just occur by chance....
- tbalsam 3y ago
  Okay, I found the MonkeyBall adventure reference, at about 2:17:00 or so (it's so low in the mix usually you just here it when falling out, and there's this sorta terrible whining noise above it), but I remember it sticking out to me for whatever. Like many things in autism, I have effectively 0 clue why: https://youtu.be/rdnITafjFcQ?si=2mCNpD9zne8YjaKq https://youtu.be/rdnITafjFcQ?si=2mCNpD9zne8YjaKq
jameshart 3y ago
Yes, movie sounds are intended to sound like viewers expect, not how they actually sound. See Airplane! where the action all takes place on a passenger jet but the background sound effects are all for a propeller airliner, because it evokes the sound and feel of Zero Hour, the movie it’s parodying. (https://www.google.com/search?q=zero+hour+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=vclbx https://www.google.com/search?q=zero+hour+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=...)
- tbalsam 3y ago
  I am sure it adds another layer of ironic, wry, situational comedy to that movie as many other layers of it are. When I learned about how it was basically a shot for shit remake of Zero Hour, AND the story of how and why they basically got to remake it, it tickled me even further. Sorta reminds me of the infamous official "Ghost Stories" dub, which is....uh.... something else. Er. Lol.
  - tbalsam 3y ago
    *shot for shot, apologies

tbalsam 3y ago

I have a sinking feeling under some further investigation that it may be! I am pretty sure that I've heard it in a few places, one of which being the Disney movie Up. I'm not sure how to describe it, it is a sensorially very unique and pleasant experience for me hearing it. Here's one example, starting roughly around 7-8 seconds or so: https://youtu.be/ah7I6jr-gKQ?feature=shared https://youtu.be/ah7I6jr-gKQ?feature=shared I listened to some older zeppelin/dirigible recordings based on your comment and they seem to make a rather nice, but also not as-euphoric fan whine. Noooooo, that is quite disappointing! I think there's one game that had an extremely highly punctuated, very clockwork-like soundtrack in one of its worlds that used the dirigible-whip sound as a base layer for one of its themes whenever you were in that part of the world. I'll see if I can find it. Curious that it shows up in a few places, there _has_ to be able origin for why people who are designers associate it with airships. It likely wouldn't just occur by chance....

tbalsam 3y ago
Okay, I found the MonkeyBall adventure reference, at about 2:17:00 or so (it's so low in the mix usually you just here it when falling out, and there's this sorta terrible whining noise above it), but I remember it sticking out to me for whatever. Like many things in autism, I have effectively 0 clue why: https://youtu.be/rdnITafjFcQ?si=2mCNpD9zne8YjaKq https://youtu.be/rdnITafjFcQ?si=2mCNpD9zne8YjaKq

jameshart 3y ago

Yes, movie sounds are intended to sound like viewers expect, not how they actually sound. See Airplane! where the action all takes place on a passenger jet but the background sound effects are all for a propeller airliner, because it evokes the sound and feel of Zero Hour, the movie it’s parodying. (https://www.google.com/search?q=zero+hour+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=vclbx https://www.google.com/search?q=zero+hour+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=...)

tbalsam 3y ago
I am sure it adds another layer of ironic, wry, situational comedy to that movie as many other layers of it are. When I learned about how it was basically a shot for shit remake of Zero Hour, AND the story of how and why they basically got to remake it, it tickled me even further. Sorta reminds me of the infamous official "Ghost Stories" dub, which is....uh.... something else. Er. Lol.
- tbalsam 3y ago
  *shot for shot, apologies