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Ben Burtt on Lightsaber Sound Design

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Uploaded by on May 23, 2007

Ben Burtt talks about creating the sounds for the lightsabers in Star Wars. As he worked on "A New Hope", Burtt probably wasn't aware that he was inventing modern sound design.

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  • Does this explain how the clashing sound was made?

  • @Datelesswonders He also recorded sounds of Kenneth Strickfaden's lab equipment from Frankenstein, and I'd bet some of those high-energy sounds ended up in the Lightsaber family.

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  • thumbs up if cracked brought you here

  • I can't wait to tell all the ladies this the next time i'm at a party! :-)

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  • Always have been a fan of SW

  • A genius

  • @uptohisneck Sound design people are indeed awesome, but Ben Burtt’s kind of in a class by himself. He was also responsible for the sound of the land speeder, TIE fighters, the Imperial blaster rifle, the crack of Indiana Jones’s whip, and the popularization of the Wilhelm Scream. Among other things. Basically, if you grew up in the 80s like I did, he was responsible for at least half the soundtrack of your life.

  • the lightsaber sounds have gotta be some of the most perfect and memorable sound design ever. wellwellwelldone. and he did R2D2 and Chewbacca too? goddamn. sound design people are so awesome.

  • @sumbuddyx

    A Star Trek fan. :D

  • Fucking genius.

  • WHO THE FUCK WOULD DISLIKE THIS?????????

    sorry for the caps.

  • His mouth is making my OCD itch.

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