Sleight of Ear

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What does a sound designer do all day? How do noise canceling headphones really work? And why do modern movie trailers all sound the same? In this follow-up to our 150th episode, Dallas shares the secrets of sound design with Jordan Harbinger. They also discuss audio deepfakes, sonic branding, and the eternal argument over analog vs. digital. This interview comes from The Jordan Harbinger Show. Follow the show on Twitter, Facebook, & Reddit. Subscribe to our Youtube channel here. Become a monthly contributor at 20k.org/donate. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at mystery.20k.org. Subscribe to The Jordan Harbinger Show wherever you get your podcasts. Download Overcast in the App Store for a powerful, simple podcast player. Visit athleticgreens.com/20k to get a one-year supply of vitamin D and 5 travel packs free with your first purchase. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/slightofear Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:08.5	We just reached 150 episodes and I still can't believe we've made it this far.
0:13.5	To celebrate the occasion, I wanted to pull back the curtain a bit.
0:17.2	Last week, you heard a deeply personal story about my life before this podcast.
0:21.7	This week, you'll hear part of a discussion I had with my friend Jordan over on his podcast,
0:26.3	the Jordan Harbinger Show.
0:27.7	Now, this episode is going to sound completely different than our normal show.
0:32.2	It's a lot more conversational and very fast-paced.
0:35.7	But Jordan is a fantastic interviewer and does a really great job of asking thoughtful
0:40.0	questions that people ask me about often.
0:42.9	In this episode, we cover a lot of different topics.
0:45.9	What sound design is, how it's used in movie trailers, whether analog sounds better than
0:50.5	digital, deep fakes, sonic branding, and more.
0:54.0	It was a really fun interview and I hope you'll enjoy it.
0:57.4	Thank you, Jordan.
0:59.3	I'm not sure people have heard of sound designers before and if they have, they probably
1:05.5	in the same page I was before this, which is, oh yeah, they pick the music for a scene
1:09.2	in a movie.
1:15.8	And that's about it.
1:17.1	Or maybe they add like a punching sound if the punch isn't loud enough in the stunt scene.
1:24.2	But obviously there's a lot more to it and you're kind of part of this big magic trick.
1:29.5	The audience isn't thinking about what they hear but what they see and if it were a drawing
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