Ben Burtt on Lightsaber Sound Design

very interesting!!

Remind me never to ask this guy for directions.

Nice. I've always wondered how they came up with the sound for them.

not true. feedback is that but it does not get louder. it keeps the same tone. and when he was moving the microphone around he had the microphone recording, not coming out of the speaker he was waving it in front of. what was coming out of the speaker was the sound of the still lightsaber

No

Disney's Sleeping Beauty was the first movie to use Stereo Sound.

How totally FREAKIN cool! I love documentary stuff like this! :-)

Ben you're a genius!!! I wish i could be as creative as you. what a fun job you have.

Wellll... not quite... Stereo had been dabbled with before. And in large-format-cinema multichannel-audio was pretty much the norm since the ginormous screens where introduced.

What Lucas and his pals did was to device a way to get stereo-sound that would play as stereo on a normal sound-pickup and for those theaters with the decoders, that same signal would be decoded to 4channel-surround-sound. And I think that the same track could also be played on a mono-theatre.

So what they did was quite revolutionary even though they didn't quite "invent Stereophonic sound in cinemas"

Wonderfully informative. Thanks for posting this.