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Twenty Thousand Hertz

The Voices of… BLUEY!!!

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Despite Bluey’s enormous, global popularity, the cast and crew are a tight-knit family, often literally. In part 2 of our story on Bluey, the show’s sound designer and mixer Dan Brumm breaks down the surprising connections between the voice actors, the real-life inspiration behind classic episodes, and how he ended up voicing a key role on the show. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at mystery.20k.org. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Facebook. Find the right doctor, right now at zocdoc.com/20k. Take a free test drive of OCI at oracle.com/20k. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial at shopify.com/20k. Claim your $75 sponsored job credit at indeed.com/hertz. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: www.20k.org/episodes/thevoicesofbluey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8

You're listening to 20,000 hurts. I'm Dallas Taylor.

0:37.0

In our last episode, we explored the sound of Bluey with the show's sound designer and mixer Dan Brum.

0:44.4

To craft the show's organic sound, Dan uses all kinds of techniques, from

0:49.0

recording birds, creeks, and playgrounds all over Brisbane to applying a low-pass filter to the sound effects to give them a more warm rounded tone.

1:00.0

Now, my three daughters are all huge bluey fans and my eight-year-old had a question about how they record the actors

1:06.2

It's about all the people who do like talking and stuff. How do they do that?

1:13.0

Because like we can't just press on a video that's already done and there's already sound on it.

1:19.0

Because they have to draw it first.

1:22.0

Mm-hmm. Or they might do the sound first and then draw it.

1:27.0

They do?

1:28.0

Isn't that cool?

1:30.0

Yeah. In Bluey, like in most cartoons, the actors record their lines before it gets animated.

1:40.0

This gives the actors much more freedom in their delivery.

1:43.0

And after they record, the editors can use all those takes

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