Worldizing: a sound design concept - by Walter Murch

Manipulating sound until it seemed to be something that existed in real space. This refers to playing back existing recordings through a speaker or speakers in real-world acoustic situations, and recording that playback with microphones so that the new recording takes on the acoustic characteristics of the place it was "re-recorded." [via filmsound.org]

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[usoproject]

The clip is taken from the THX 1138 dvd (Two-Disc Director's Cut Special Edition), the first science fiction film directed by George Lucas.

[digitaldave1234]

I like hearing him talk about the way he works.

[Adam DiTroia]

He's the master!

[nk747]

This rocks!

[thearklight]

He explains things so well! He's a great teacher.Basically he's talking about doing convolution reverb manually and the HAAS effect on stereo widening using tiny millisecond delays. But heexplained it so anyone can understand.Not many people are both gifted teachers and experts- Heri

[Greenjah81]

Amazing. Really dig the idea of playing back the audio in a place and re-recording it on to other recorder. I was wondering:

1)Did you play it back of the Near or Far field speakers?

2)Did you use cardioid or more directional pattern mic to do that?

Must have been tough to align the tapes after...

[OCUBOX]

One of the guys I listen to :)

[vanishy0urself]

This was freaking awesome.

[jihadsoup]

Genius...

[digitaldave1234]

More thoughts by Walter Murch can be heard on the "THX 1138" DVD, and a documentary on editing named "The Cutting Edge - The Magic of Movie Editing".