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is outer space filled with air in star wars? how do those tie fighters make that screechy sound in a vacuum?
-- jinx hijinks (mikeoptin...) (webmail), April 17th, 1978 3:32 PM. (sanskrit) (link)
sanskrit, that is just some augmented reality to help people in ships perceive spatially where stuff is
-- Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (dr_...) (webmail), April 17th, 1978 3:33 PM. (ex machina) (link)
BULLSHIT
i sent him a question about the TIE Fighter sound during external shots. augmented reality my ass.
-- jinx hijinks (mikeoptin...) (webmail), April 18th, 1978 6:03 PM. (sanskrit) (link)
supershadow never replied..
― mentalismé (sanskrit), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm also reading this:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000H2MOSM.01._AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_V62533322_.jpg
which talks about how they developed subwoofer and bass cab technology during the war. They'd rig up PA systems on half-tracks that could broadcast sound up to fifteen miles, and would play recordings of mechanized infantry, tanks back-firing, fortifications being build, etc to fuck with Axis troops. At one point, they were mixing together three turntables and 12 tracks of wire-recorders to fake the sound of several regiments moving thru dark forests.
and THAT, dear friends, is noize. Just like the dazzle battleship camo designs.
― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link
tho it should be noted that these were 16" glass-style records, and it wasn't so much "tracks" as much as mixing 12 wire-recorders at once.
when the little wire-recordings broke, they would solder them back together with lit cigarettes.
― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link
> would play recordings of mechanized infantry, tanks back-firing, fortifications being build, etc to fuck with Axis troops.
if you've ever seen "The Long And The Short And The Tall" it starts with a troop of soldiers in the jungle making recordings for exactly these purposes:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054037/plotsummary
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link