Making God Of War's Axe Recall sound with just an iPhone mic || Waveform

[@MarshallMcGee]

Yeah? I misspelled frequency. Alright. Ya know what. All ad revenue from this vid will go to a spelling coach. 🖌📝

[@MarshallMcGee]

Let’s hope a spelling coach isn’t more than 4 dollars @youtube

[@kudeita]

There's something immensely satisfying about seeing the hitmarker on an object and hearing the noise without anything happening

[@FUNKe]

This is some seriously underrated stuff man. Keep at it!!

[@HarborKid]

these are my favorite videos on youtube

[@CH1EFBL1TZ]

8:02 this would also be a great menu sub category selection sound, or pause/resume sound

[@_yellow]

You're god damn right

[@mikeniederquell]

Great video, Marshall! :)

[@MarshallMcGee]

Thank you for making such a great sounding game!

[@animageofsound5351]

I gotta play this game dude! Still havent .. And I need that microphone. :D

[@skolirramr2403]

I remember you saying you were playing Dad of War for the awesome sound design. I'm happy you made a video on it too. You're the only KZbinr I stop whatever I'm doing for just to watch a new upload. Always worth it.

[@ghostofsparta5100]

Skolir Ramr When you're making a serious comment just don't involve memes with it.."Dad of war"?Just fucking call it "God Of War"..

[@zakariasabbagh]

This is such educating and entertaining series of videos. From how to actually create sound to encouraging low-budget sound design. This is truly awesome!

[@nyoukki]

Maybe it's so high because each octave doubles the frequency of the sound ? Edit : Yes, I was talking about 4:44

[@MarshallMcGee]

Yes, exactly. The halfway point in terms of raw Hz is 10,000. But that's only one octave below the highest note you can possibly hear when talking about notes or pitches the way we think of them.

[@MrAwesomeTheAwesome]

I found a more intuitive average. It's: upperbound / sqrt(upperbound/lowerbound) which is equal to: lowerbound * sqrt(upperbound/lowerbound) So: 20,000 / sqrt(1000) = ~632.5hz --- I reverse engineered the math used to find the 'tritone' interval in music.

[@zack31191]

Yeah, it's more natural to think of frequencies on a log scale (or log2 scale, if you're thinking of octaves). So then we can think of human hearing ranging from around 4 (log2 units) to 14. And he played something at around 13.

[@radunicolof7938]

Pitch perception is logarithmic to frequencies

[@NeoRush]

Blown away by the result. Sound design is awesome!

[@ralphswingley6882]

This channel deserves wayy more attention for the quality of the content. Nice work!!

[@fivepointone7711]

I've just been making my way through the A Sound Effect article about this game, I'm so glad you made a video on this element though, thankyou!

[@jzoobs]

I'm taking a sound design course in college right now (majoring in film), and this channel has been super helpful along with entertaining. Thanks man!

[@oompa1098]

This channel is underrated asf

[@jordantomsofficial]

Marshall you rescued me. I am a composer for film and games and now i have the opportunity to also do the sound design for a game. Without your videos it would be a disaster :D

[@andrewmcnicoll2492]

Best one yet man! Keep it up!

[@nilsrohlfs6804]

Wow your Transitions in the Into are absolutely amazing!! great work

[@INeededANameForThisChannel]

These videos are great, Marshall!

[@savethefails]

great video. Every video makes me want to play with sound. You win.

[@rayner8330]

You always blow me away with these videos. Best channel on youtube~!!!!!!

[@arthasmenethil9957]

It's amazing how hearing them separately sounds quite odd, but hearing it finished and in game sounds pretty good.

[@AbhorrentRose]

I loved how much I learned from the creative aspectives of sound recording and how fun it can be.

[@EricJEarley]

The "pitch" of a sound is defined by its frequency. Frequencies don't change on a linear scale. It changes on a logarithmic scale. Normally, a log scale uses base 10 (10^1, 10^2, 10^3), but frequency use base 2 (2^1, 2^2, 2^3). This means that, for human perception, a pitch at 10 kHz sounds an octave lower than one at 20 kHz, but sounds an octave higher than 5 kHz and two octaves higher than 2.5 kHz.

[@cakcakcak]

This video format is awesome

[@nathanieldiazrua]

Marshall, I have watched this video several times. Today I watched it and I was cracking up when the "That Sounds Good to Me" track started playing.

[@exceptionalish614]

Real glad I found your channel man, great content! I didn't even realize that there was such a need for simple analysis/explanations of sound design until I watched a few of your videos. It really helps me to understand layering on a whole new level without even needing to get into all your nitty gritty settings for EQs, compression, etc. That stuff is important, sure, but this is the foundation that I had been missing that sort of makes all of my prior knowledge start to click.

[@justVontadeh]

HOLY... it sounds sooo good.

[@MO-zk8qs]

First video I saw from you, and I had to subscribe! This is quality stuff

[@aswonn]

super cool sound design breakdown and explanation :D also love the results 👏👏👏

[@tyler20018]

This was a great watch! The separate sounds all came together really nicely! I am surprised by how good the phone mic can work. I will be trying this myself :P

[@Noisyhands]

Great work Marshal .. always a good time.

[@moywalker6418]

That's Amazing and so inspiring! Thanks Marshall!

[@deeper_senpai8710]

Pretty nice sfx right there. I like how u explain it in a simple way.

[@rikuzi00007]

These are really informative and well made videos. Keep up the good work!

[@theuserchrome7486]

Man,I love your videos,as a fan of video game,The sound design is something that I pay very close atention to,in order to really "be part of the world" of the game that I'm playing. See how they do and how you do this fantastic job is something increadible,really inspired me with your work. Keep your great job,I'm a big fan. (By the way,the song that play in the end has a bass that remind me the song "Feel good inc" hahaha)

[@TheMrKeksLp]

I absolutely love the seriousness of the videos with the subtle jokes likes the hitmarkers on the objects

[@Whisperdraw]

Great video! As for future sounds I always felt intrigued by the UI sounds in MGS1 and 2, especially the menu and inventory. Maybe they're not that interesting from a sound design perspective but knowing how they're made would surely blow my mind. See ya soon!

[@toniocolot]

Holy moly this was actually so interesting to watch. Good shit :o

[@Jaddico]

I hope you get above 250k subs one day bro, SERIOUS research and education is being done here, and its highly educational for someone like myself who wants to go into the entertainment industry as a designer! Thank you for your content!!! BIG zen going your way bro! ☯

[@SousukeSagara96]

I loved BOTW so much, I'd love to see your take on the sound of connecting a hit with the Master Sword at full power, it's so cool and satisfying

[@KillTheJester]

Glad I stumbled upon this. It's very informative and entertaining.

[@jclefbouncyrock]

Awesome video - thanks for making it!

[@l.ondracek]

Another great episode. Keep it up :)

[@icecatti]

that "sorry marshall" clip fucked me up so bad

[@mimisaiko]

Love your vids! Nice approach of your version of axe! To the comparison, the original design convey more of the magic/impact/power side than material which is interesting!

[@Saggrotan]

You are really making me happy with your high quality videos. I always watch them and made sure to subscribe the second I saw one of your videos: "How Does Breath Of The Wild Sound?" brought me to you. Please keep it up. Your videos are immensely interesting and I can learn so much and benefit from your skill. Good job!

[@KAINONAUT]

God damn dude this is a solid video

[@Teflora]

Man these videos are so cool! Often I wish you would dig even deeper into the details, but yaeh, gonna keep it watcher friendly :D

[@thepolygator3628]

hey, really loving your channel! i was very suprised tough to not find a video about subnautica from you. IMO it has some of the best and most scary creature sounds ever created the entire atmosphere created ONLY by sound is amazing! i really hope you will make a video on it. greetings ThePolygator

[@Tosix68]

Love this series, thanks a lot

[@arthasmenethil9957]

1:54 Every time I play this, I always look forward to the dialogue that happens on the boat. They made a great decision there. And like he said, something that would normally be boring filler, actually turned into something I always looked forward to.

[@twosnakse]

I love your videos brother!

[@CWCWGamer]

This is honestly free education man. Thank you.

[@vankofrank8267]

great video Marshall teacher thx

[@lostuser1094]

I've been wondering about the World Serpent's actual voice for a while... thank you

[@gergomatos]

Your channel is sooo good, please do more videos! :)

[@navigatingmadness180]

This is incredible, thank you

[@aggi999]

The serpent sounds like a layer of human voice, crocodile, a lion and a horse breath all pitched down together

[@tanakamutaviri5561]

Its amazing how you use a freakin phone to make awesome sound effects!!!

[@Jonathan-we6lc]

I don't hear the 10khz tone! Sounds like that part and a minute or so into the next section has all the high frequencies cut off. Maybe a youtube glitch

[@joshuabenton3785]

Oh wow. I am very impressed.

[@dobbsy9410]

Only recently found this channel and it's really awesome, i'd love to hear your version of a portal shot from portal.

[@MarshallMcGee]

Great one

[@projectz975]

heyyy why does it sound like the sample rate of the video got cut in half around the 4:35 mark???

[@SageSylvie]

The coat hanger swing sounds EXACTLY like the Minecraft attack sound

[@justVontadeh]

The Clicker sound from The Last of Us or some UI sounds would be awesome!

[@electricanimation3379]

Literally sounds better than the real sound

[@vasumusic2101]

The Human senses respond logarithmic, while our thinking is linear

[@burgers1]

I totally believe the end sound lol

[@Blessbh]

Great episode, but now that you showed "inside" as something noticeable to you, would be really cool to see an analysis of that game.

[@tysonasaurus6392]

The Magic sound on its own would be great for a bleep or bloop like opening a high tech door

[@CH1EFBL1TZ]

this inspires me to pursue sound design!

[@uhitsethan]

8:53 ok doug doug

[@captainbean3114]

I would absolutely love to see a waveform about The Witcher IIIs armour sounds. I’m a huge medieval arms and armour enthusiast and also a sound designer and have done sound redesigns for the Witcher myself and would love your angle on the portrayal of armour in game audio scapes

[@Harlequin314159]

4:44 Logarithmic scales?

[@MarshallMcGee]

nailed it

[@teunvanwezel2282]

What? Are you saying frequencies scale logarithmicly? That doesn't make any sense to me...

[@MarshallMcGee]

www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jcoleman/LOGARITH.htm Good article and explanation of the answer to the listening challenge ^

[@davicruzpestana7329]

Our percepticion of frequencies are logarithmicly scaled, just as sound intensity("volume") and light intensity.

[@oldcowbb]

because human senses are usually in logarithmic scale

[@GimmeDopamine]

I was admiring the sound design in The Last of Us. Just the sound of ripping tape or refilling the flamethrower. So I KZbind: "Sound design in video games" and your channel came up. This channel is criminally undersubscribed. You know your stuff and your voice is top tier.

[@Wanderlauch]

Love this channel. I hope you consider an in-depth look of INSIDE.

[@MicahTheManiac]

4:15, audio cuts out. Is it supposed to? Didn't hear anything. comes back around 4:45

[@shanekim28]

You're alive! I got worried

[@Milkra]

virgin mjolnir recall sound vs chad leviathan axe recall sound

[@ChocolateZteak]

I love this

[@samkarugu7639]

i found my new fave page

[@pedrocostasound]

Great vid as always! Are you denoising the recordings from the phone? If not, that´s the best phone mic I´ve ever heard!

[@hezekiahdaggett2179]

Abelton sound design go hard

[@micahblakeslee]

Is there any way to recreate, or at least approximate, the World Serpent sound without a $3,000 microphone? Could you do a similar thing to what you did with the axe sound, mixing a standard pitch with only higher frequencies with an octave down with only low frequencies, or would that sound wonky with a human voice? Thanks! :D

[@BattleAngelSound]

If you want go higher than 20kHz then even $100 portable recorders are able to record 96kHz which gives you 48kHz of frequency range (I tested Tascam DR-05 and I was able to find out that my fridge is not that silent and generate interesting noise on 30kHz ;) ). Then instead of standard pitch down, use granular synthesis/pitch shift. With good algorithm you can achieve good sound because you can change speed and pitch separately + grains can add more character to the sound. I'm pretty sure that this was used originally for that voice.

[@micahblakeslee]

@@BattleAngelSound Thanks! I'll have to test that out sometime!

[@jeffreychen8443]

Ah yes, the sounds of "Boi" for 50 straight hours is very calming

[@Medium-RareSteak]

Holy shit that’s really cool!

[@captainbean3114]

(I adore you’re content)

[@viktoriajedrzejczyk2619]

The intro!

[@dawidskrzypek2517]

OMG THANK U SO MUCH

[@Obyvvatel]

the scale is logarithmic

[@Robogumo]

Simply because you said I should have hummed it, Can't hum that high bro 😁

[@55tutur]

Did you put back the "Air" feature on your Scarlett 5:55 ? ^^ It's even looking like you High cut the whole audio from the moment you played the 10k frequency 4:32

[@Steve080501]

BOI

[@AlekPlaysMinecraft]

To answer the question: Musical notes each have their own specific frequency measured in Hz. Let’s take a basic A note, which has a frequency of 440 Hz in a specific octave (432 Hz for all those music theorists). If you go an octave higher, the frequency of that new A note will be 880. This continues, each octave doubling the frequency. If you go the other way, the note frequencies are halved. The frequency of a note on a piano and the trend of its octaval frequencies is exponential, meaning that the difference between a high note and it’s lower octave is far larger than the difference between two lower octaves of that note. Additionally (and this might be more of a psychological thing than physical science/math) but most of our human musical harmony and melody (and human voices) takes place in the lower frequencies. You’ll never really “hear” the higher frequencies in music because the parts of the songs that reach to those high frequencies are typically transients or drum sounds which have no melodic or harmonic quality. Ableton Live’s EQ shows this visually, it condenses specific frequency ranges to compensate for that exponential increase.

[@ervintkacik624]

How can you have like only 5k views on this video :D :D Its Amazing !! :D :D

[@spouch94]

Awesome video, as always. i would love to hear your opinion about the Elite: Dangerous' sound design, it's brilliant!

[@cheekybum1513]

For the sounds challenge- because hertz are logarithmic?

[@elerosvecchio]

Is it just me or does the audio not work during the listening challenge?

[@aegerman6317]

Eleros Vecchio Yeah I’m very confused cause I know I can hear up to 16k-17k so it’s not like I can’t hear it

[@doomdave475]

same, but I think it’s a problem with the speakers on a phone, and not the challenge

[@elerosvecchio]

@@doomdave475 I was watching on my home computers with good headphones and there was no audio

[@Salem-Arrak]

Because sound measuring unit scales Logarithmically?