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Foley artists perform custom sound effects in sync with the visuals for TV shows, movies, and video games.

In our last episode, we met three members of the Warner Brothers Foley team, including Foley Mixer Darren Mann.

Can you guys hear me?

And Foley artists, Chris Moriana and Allison Moore. I can hear you now.

We're hearing you in the headphones.

I'm hearing you on the stage.

Darren is in the mixing booth, while Allison and Chris are on the Foley stage down the hall.

We're back and we're ready whenever you are.

Last time, they gave us a tour around their Foley stage at a studio called The Barn, near Los Angeles.

They told us all about the history of Foley and performed some of their iconic sounds,

including Batman's Cape in the Dark Night, and Slimers' goo and Ghostbusters.

If you haven't heard it yet, you should definitely go back and listen to that episode before you move on to this one.

Making every sound that a scene calls for requires all kinds of techniques.

For example, some sounds can be made with just their bodies.

A dog sniffing.

I use my own nose, eating scenes,

for certain wind effects or even explosions sometimes. we'll use a technique where we'll actually blow into the mic.

So, okay, Darren, I'm going to try to do a little wooj by on this mic.

Ready?

That was a good one.

A sound like that could be used for something like an object whizzing through the air,

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